Iceberg DBA Lakehouse Operation Engineer

Iceberg DBA Lakehouse Operation Engineer
Remote - USA
Job Summary:
We are seeking a highly skilled Iceberg DBA / Lakehouse Operations Engineer to own the reliability, performance, and operational integrity of the Iceberg data layer powering enterprise analytics and business-critical applications. This role operates in a large-scale, multi-engine Lakehouse environment, supporting workloads across Spark, Hive, and Impala, and plays a key role in enterprise data modernization initiatives (Hive and Teradata → Iceberg). The ideal candidate brings deep expertise in Iceberg table operations, metadata management, and query performance optimization, ensuring consistent, high-performance data access across platforms in a cloudbased environment. This role is critical to ensuring data accuracy and performance—any degradation directly impacts downstream reporting, analytics, and business-critical decision-making
Required Skills
Strong hands-on experience with Apache Iceberg and/or Hive-based data lakes
• Understanding of data modeling concepts (normal forms) and modern Lakehouse patterns (Medallion architecture)
• Expertise in: o Table-level optimization and performance tuning o Large-scale data management (TB/PB scale)
• Experience with: o Spark SQL, Hive, Impala, NiFI, Trino
• Strong understanding of: o Partitioning strategies o File formats (Parquet/ORC) o Distributed query processing

Work arrangement
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