Data Engineer

Job Description
• Design, build, and maintain Databricks data pipelines (ETL/ELT) for ingestion, transformation, and orchestration using Spark/Delta Lake/Databricks Workflows.
• Operationalize machine learning models by building inference pipelines that invoke models authored by data scientists (batch or real-time), ensuring consistency between training and inference environments.
• Ensure data reliability, quality, and observability through robust validation, monitoring, alerting, and automated recovery mechanisms.
• Collaborate closely with data scientists to productionize models, manage model deployment lifecycles, and optimize inference performance and cost.
• Implement best-practice DevOps/MLOps processes such as CI/CD for pipelines, model versioning, environment promotion, and infrastructure-as-code.
• Optimize performance and cost across compute clusters, jobs, and storage layers.
• Implement and manage the enterprise data catalog, including schema design, table ownership, lineage, governance, and documentation using Unity Catalog.
• Experience with some Databricks infrastructure.
• Experience with building BI dashboards and visualization.
• Experience with coding agents and best practices (spec-driven development, etc.).
Must Have / Nice to Have Skills Required: • Databricks platform experience • Python development for data processing and ETL pipelines • Unity Catalog knowledge • AWS data services (S3, IAM, VPC, potentially Glue/Lambda) • Data lake/lakehouse architecture patterns • Dashboard building experience Nice to Have: • RESTful API design and development (Flask, FastAPI, or similar) • Authentication/authorization patterns (OAuth, API keys, IAM roles) • Query optimization and performance tuning • PySpark optimization experience • ML/AI pipeline experience • Databricks AI/BI

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