The Senior Staff Data Engineer will help build and operate the enterprise lakehouse on Databricks, creating the governed data foundation that supports multiple business domains and downstream analytics. This is a hands-on role, responsible for scalable ingestion, reliable data processing, and strong technical controls across the Bronze and Silver layers of the medallion architecture.
Pay within range listed + Bonus + Benefits + Equity
- 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.
- Define and evolve reusable ingestion and transformation patterns, templates, and engineering standards that other domains can adopt when they onboard to the platform.
- Implement and maintain Databricks platform constructs needed for secure delivery, including catalogs, schemas, service principals, job orchestration, and environment-aware deployment patterns.
- Databricks certification such as Data Engineer Associate or Professional
- Nice to have: Experience in defense, aerospace, financial services, or healthcare
- Nice to have: Experience enabling multiple business domains on a shared data platform
