Senior Data Engineer - Databricks
Summary
Senior/Lead Data Engineer at Dataeconomy, a data & analytics consultancy in Raleigh, NC. Day to day: building production ETL/ELT pipelines on Databricks (PySpark, Spark SQL, Delta Live Tables, Workflows, Unity Catalog) using Medallion architecture, with streaming ingestion, data quality, orchestration and cloud (AWS/Azure/GCP) work.
We offer products and solutions in Cloud, Data Engineering, Data Governance, AI/ML, DevOps and Blockchain to large corporates across the globe. Strategic Partners with AWS, Collibra, cloudera, neo4j, DataRobot, Global IDs, tableau, MuleSoft and Talend.
Raleigh NC
- Build scalable, production-grade ETL/ELT pipelines using Databricks (PySpark, Spark SQL, Delta Live Tables, Workflows).
- Ingest structured, semi-structured, and streaming data into Bronze, Silver, and Gold layers.
- Develop optimized transformations, data quality rules, and reusable framework components.
- Implement best practices for job orchestration, monitoring, alerting, and automation.
- Hands-on experience: Spark, Delta Lake, Workflows, Unity Catalog.
- Strong SQL programming and performance tuning skills.
- Experience with cloud environments (AWS/Azure/GCP).
- Experience with modern data lakehouse concepts and distributed systems.
- Strong understanding of Lakeflow Connect, LSDP/Lakehouse, Medallion Architecture, Data Validations, Genie, and Agent Bricks/RAG use cases.
- Should be able to explain these concepts using real project examples and architecture decisions.
Requirements
- Strong Python (PySpark) and SQL programming
- Databricks — Spark, Delta Lake, Workflows, Unity Catalog
- ETL/ELT pipeline development — Medallion Architecture (Bronze/Silver/Gold)
- Delta Live Tables, Auto-Loader, Structured Streaming
- Data modeling — dimensional (star/snowflake), normalization/denormalization
- CI/CD, Git, job orchestration
- Cloud experience — AWS, Azure, or GCP
- 7–10+ years in data engineering
Nice-to-Have Skills
- Lakeflow Connect, LSDP/Lakehouse, Genie, Agent Bricks/RAG use cases
- Data governance, metadata management, Unity Catalog advanced features
- Airflow, dbt, or similar orchestration tools
- Data security, compliance, and access models
- Cost optimization and performance tuning in cloud environments
- Corporate/enterprise data warehousing background
Skills
- AI
- Airflow
- Analytics
- Automation
- AWS
- Azure
- Blockchain
- CI/CD
- Cloud
- Data Engineering
- Data Governance
- Data Modeling
- Data Quality
- Data Warehousing
- Databricks
- dbt
- Delta Lake
- DevOps
- Distributed Systems
- ELT
- ETL
- GCP
- Git
- Lakehouse
- Machine Learning
- Metadata Management
- Mulesoft
- Neo4j
- PySpark
- Python
- Snowflake
- Spark
- SQL
- Tableau
- Talend
- Unity