Data Engineer / DevOps Engineer

Experience Requirements

• Total Data Engineering: 5+ years

• Databricks Specific: 1+ years of hands-on experience in production environments

• Enterprise Scale: Experience building enterprise-level scalable pipelines with Spark or Hadoop-based systems Required Certifications

Mandatory:

Databricks Certified Data Engineer Professional.

Highly Preferred: Apache Spark Developer Associate

Cloud (Optional): Professional-level certification in AWS.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design & Build: Develop robust Medallion Architecture (Bronze/Silver/Gold) pipelines using Lakeflow and Delta Lake

• Performance Tuning: Proactively monitor and tune clusters, jobs, and serverless compute to reduce latency and infrastructure costs

• Governance Integration: Ensure every data asset is correctly tagged, secured through ACL, and discoverable via Unity Catalog

• Code Review: Enforce software engineering best practices (unit testing, modular code, and documentation) within the data team

• Streaming & Ingestion: Implement real-time or near-real-time data ingestion using Structured Streaming and Lake flow Connect

• Observability: Monitor pipeline health and costs using system tables; set up alerts and dashboards for proactive issue detection.

Preferred Candidate Background:

• Distributed Systems: Proven track record with Open-Source Apache Spark, Flink, or Hadoop.

• Python-Centric: Advanced Python skills are a prerequisite; the project requires building complex logic that exceeds standard SQL capabilities.

• Engineering Mindset: Experience in refactoring legacy Big Data workloads into clean, testable, and optimized PySpark applications.