Senior Staff Data Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Design and build ingestion pipelines, batch and streaming where appropriate, from enterprise source systems into the Databricks lakehouse using Delta Lake.
• Own Bronze-layer ingestion, including raw landing patterns, metadata capture, load traceability, and recoverable ingestion design.
• Build Silver-layer pipelines for cleansing, standardization, deduplication, conformance, and quality enforcement without embedding unauthorized or undocumented KPI logic.

Qualifications:

• 12+ years of data engineering experience, including hands-on ownership of production data pipelines.
• Strong Databricks experience, including Delta Lake, Databricks Workflows or Jobs, and Spark with PySpark and/or Spark SQL.
• Working knowledge of Unity Catalog, including catalogs, schemas, tables, lineage, and access control concepts.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Databricks certification such as Data Engineer Associate or Professional.
• Experience standing up or maturing Unity Catalog structures and access models in an enterprise setting.
• Experience in defense, aerospace, financial services, healthcare, or another highly regulated environment.