Senior Data Engineer
Ann Arbor, MI - USA
Job Summary
As a Senior Data Engineer you will operate as a technical expert responsible for designing building and scaling enterprise-grade data engineering solutions across our cloud-native data platform on Azure and Databricks. This role requires deep technical knowledge strong engineering judgment and the ability to deliver high-impact solutions that support analytics AI/ML operational reporting and streaming data solutions.
You will partner closely with Data Architects Platform Admins Cloud Engineers Product Owners and cross-functional stakeholders to translate strategy and architecture into production-grade high-quality solutions. You will lead complex technical work within your domain mentor engineers raise engineering standards and influence delivery across multiple products platforms and business capabilities.
GENERAL RESPONSIBILITIES
- Apply advanced technical knowledge to design build and optimize scalable data pipelines reusable engineering frameworks and platform capabilities using Azure Data Factory Databricks Spark streaming and related cloud-native technologies.
- Lead engineering design and implementation for ingestion transformation and data product frameworks that support structured semi-structured and unstructured data at enterprise scale.
- Implement automation for data ingestion processing validation and monitoring to ensure reliability and observability.
- Drive implementation of future-state data architecture and cloud migration patterns ensuring solutions are reliable secure maintainable and aligned to enterprise modernization goals.
- Optimize data workflows for performance and cost leveraging Delta Lake partitioning caching and compute scaling strategies.
- Define data access controls and RBAC policies in collaboration with security and governance teams.
- Provide technical leadership within the team by mentoring engineers reviewing solution designs setting engineering standards and promoting best practices for CI/CD testing automation observability and cloud-native delivery.
- Partner with AI/ML analytics and business teams to enable high-value real-time and batch data activation use cases that improve decision-making and business outcomes.
- Ensure compliance with data governance privacy and security standards.
Qualifications :
- 8 years of experience in data engineering including experience delivering complex enterprise-scale data solutions; Azure experience preferred.
- Advanced technical expertise in Cloud based data warehouses (Databricks Preferred) Spark Delta Lake Azure Services data integration data modeling and performance optimization.
- Proven experience in building and optimizing large-scale ETL/ELT pipelines and data lakehouse architectures.
- Solid understanding of data lakehouse modeling data warehousing and performance tuning.
- Experience with Customer 360 data products identity resolution customer profile enrichment and activation use cases is highly desired.
- Experience designing and supporting streaming data solutions is highly desired including Kafka or similar event streaming platforms.
- Martech exposure is preferred including experience supporting marketing personalization campaign loyalty or customer engagement data use cases.
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform ARM templates) and DevOps tools (Git Azure DevOps Jenkins).
- Familiarity with RBAC data security and compliance frameworks.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills with the ability to influence technical direction clarify tradeoffs and align engineering decisions across teams and stakeholders.
- Experience with Agile methodologies and working in cross-functional product teams.
- Demonstrated ability to lead through influence mentor engineers manage technical ambiguity and drive outcomes across a broad scope of products platforms and stakeholders.
Additional Information :
Benefits:
Paid Holidays and Vacation
Medical Dental & Vision benefits that start on the first day of employment
No-cost mental health support for employee and dependents
Childcare tuition discounts
No-cost fitness nutrition and wellness programs
Fertility benefits
Adoption assistance
401k matching contributions
15% off the purchase price of stock
Company bonus
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Full-time
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