Senior Databricks Developer

Position Description:

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Job Title: Senior Databricks Developer
Position: SSE / LA
Experience: 5 to 10 years of experience
Category: Software Development
Job location: Bangalore / Chennai
Position ID: J1125-2184
Work Type: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full Time / Permanent
Qualification: Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science Engineering or a related field.

Role Summary
Databricks with strong data engineering skills and deep AWS cloud expertise.
To lead the design build and deployment of data products on the Databricks Lakehouse platform ensuring scalability governance security and business value delivery.
The role requires mastery in Databricks features Delta Lake AWS ecosystem integration and modern Data Engineering best practices.

Primary Responsibilities
Design build and manage data products and event driven architecture using Databricks Lakehouse principles.
Design end-to-end data pipelines using PySpark Databricks SQL.
Define Data Product blueprint including domain boundaries ownership SLAs documentation quality rules.
Implement modern ingestion frameworks using Auto Loader Delta Live Tables Workflows.
Develop multi-zone medallion architecture (Bronze/Silver/Gold) using Delta Lake.
Lead Databricks on AWS integration including S3 access IAM roles VPC networking.
Implement Unity Catalog governance frameworks fine-grained permissions lineage tracking.
Drive automation & DevOps practices using Git Repos Databricks CLI/SDK CI/CD pipelines.
Build and optimize Spark workloads for performance and cost control (Photon/Serverless tuning).
Lead performance reviews code quality checks and data engineering guidance for teams.
Operationalize Machine Learning and advanced analytics with MLflow/Feature Store/Model Serving.
Monitor and enhance reliability using job monitoring observability dashboards alerts.
Hands-on development of Power BI dashboards DAX measures data models DirectQuery/Import mode
Evaluate new Databricks features and adopt innovation into technical roadmap.

Technical Skills Required
Strong programming experience in PySpark SQL & Python for production-grade data pipelines.
Deep mastery in Databricks Delta Lake Unity Catalog Workflows SQL Warehouses.
Expert knowledge of AWS services: S3 Glue Lambda EMR Step Functions CloudWatch VPC networking.
Experience building data products with versioning discoverability contracts metadata & lineage.
Good understanding of Infra-as-Code: Terraform (workspace clusters UC policies jobs service principals).
Strong foundation in data modeling schema design Lakehouse & Data Mesh principles.
Familiar with governance & security frameworks (encryption tokenization row/column controls).
Experience with enterprise integrations (Power BI).

Qualifications
510 years of professional Data Engineering experience.
Minimum 3 years hands-on with Databricks (production scale).
Proven experience in delivering Data Products on cloud Lakehouse platforms.

Soft Skills
Strong ownership mindset with Data Product thinking.
Excellent communication and ability to translate architecture for business stakeholders.
Ability to lead engineering teams and influence architecture decisions.
Continuous innovation mindset with focus on automation performance & reusability.

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Skills:

• Data Analysis
• Python

What you can expect from us:

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