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City: Santa Monica, CA/ Burbank, CA or Glendale, CA
Onsite / Hybrid / Remote: Hybrid. Onsite Monday through Thursday. Remote Friday.
Duration: 6 months - Contract to Hire
Rate Range: Up to $92.50/hr on w2
Work Authorization: GC, USC, All valid EADs except OPT, CPT, H1B

Must Have:

  • 4+ years of Data Engineering experience.

  • Strong SQL skills, including complex joins, window functions, and analytical queries.

  • Hands-on production experience with PySpark and/or Spark SQL.

  • Databricks experience, including Delta Lake and Unity Catalog.

  • Strong understanding of ETL/ELT pipelines, data modeling, and distributed processing.

Responsibilities:

  • Develop and maintain ETL/ELT pipelines using Databricks, PySpark, and SQL for marketing acquisition reporting.

  • Migrate existing Snowflake SQL scripts and transformations into Databricks Unity Catalog.

  • Build ingestion pipelines for external marketing vendor data.

  • Perform data parsing, normalization, transformation, and validation.

  • Implement data quality checks, monitoring alerts, and issue resolution workflows.

  • Troubleshoot pipeline failures and improve processing performance.

  • Support SLA monitoring, logging improvements, and pipeline reliability.

  • Collaborate with analytics teams to ensure accurate reporting datasets.

  • Participate in code reviews, documentation, and engineering best practices.

Qualifications:

  • Minimum 4 years of professional Data Engineering experience or equivalent.

  • Experience building production pipelines in Databricks.

  • Strong understanding of Delta Lake, Unity Catalog, Lakehouse architecture, and data governance.

  • Experience with AWS services such as S3, IAM, EC2, Glue, or Lambda.

  • Experience with Apache Airflow or similar orchestration tools.

  • Experience processing JSON, Parquet, CSV, and other semi-structured data.

  • Experience with Git/GitHub, CI/CD, and modern DevOps practices.

Nice to Have:

  • Experience migrating SQL transformations from Snowflake to Databricks.

  • Experience working with marketing acquisition or advertising data.

  • Experience implementing data quality monitoring and pipeline reliability improvements.



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