The Lead Data Engineer will design, develop, and deploy data pipelines and architectures for enterprise data challenges using tools like Databricks and SQL.
Allata is a global consulting and technology services firm with offices in the US, India, and Argentina. We help organizations accelerate growth, drive innovation, and solve complex challenges by combining strategy, design, and advanced technology. Our expertise covers defining business vision, optimizing processes, and creating engaging digital experiences. We architect and modernize secure, scalable solutions using cloud platforms and top engineering practices.
Allata also empowers clients to unlock data value through analytics and visualization and leverages artificial intelligence to automate processes and enhance decision-making. Our agile, cross-functional teams work closely with clients, either integrating with their teams or providing independent guidance—to deliver measurable results and build lasting partnerships.
We are seeking a skilled Lead Data Engineer Databricks to contribute to transformative enterprise data platform projects focused on developing data pipelines and logic engines to manage ingest, staging, and multi-tier data product modeling. Additionally, this includes but is not limited to data enrichment using various OEM-specific data warehouse and data lake house platform implementations for consumption via analytics clients. This role requires full life cycle design, build, deployment and optimization data products for multiple large enterprise industry vertical-specific implementations by processing datasets through a defined series of logically conformed layers, models, and views.
Role & Responsibilities:
- Collaborate in defining the overall architecture of the solution. This includes knowledge of modern Enterprise Data Warehouse and Data Lakehouse architectures that implement Medallion or Lamda architectures
- Design, develop, test, and deploy processing modules to implement data-driven rules using SQL, Stored Procedures, and Pyspark.
- Understands and owns data product engineering deliverables relative to a CI-CD pipeline and standard devops practices and principles
- Build and optimize data pipelines on platforms like Databricks, SQL Server, or Azure Data Fabric.
Hard Skills - Must have:
- Current knowledge of an using modern data tools like (Databricks,FiveTran, Data Fabric and others); Core experience with data architecture, data integrations, data warehousing, and ETL/ELT processes
- Applied experience with developing and deploying custom whl and or in session notebook scripts for custom execution across parallel executor and worker nodes
- Applied experience in SQL, Stored Procedures, and Pysparkbased on area of data platform specialization.
- Strong knowledge of cloud and hybrid relational database systems, such as MS SQL Server, PostgresSQL, Oracle, Azure SQL, AWS RDS, Auroraor a comparable engine.
- Strong experience with batch and streaming data processing techniques and file compactization strategies.
Hard Skills - Nice to have/It's a plus:
- Automation experience with CICD pipelines to support deployment and integration workflows including trunk-based development using automation services such as Azure DevOps, Jenkins, Octopus.
- Advanced proficiency in Pyspark for advanced data processing tasks.
- Advance proficiency in spark workflow optimization and orchestration using tools such as Asset Bundles or DAG (Directed Acyclic Graph) orchestration.
Soft Skills / Business Specific Skills:
- Ability to identify, troubleshoot, and resolve complex data issues effectively.
- Strong teamwork, communication skills and intellectual curiosity to work collaboratively and effectively with cross-functional teams.
- Commitment to delivering high-quality, accurate, and reliable data products solutions.
- Willingness to embrace new tools, technologies, and methodologies.
- Innovative thinker with a proactive approach to overcoming challenges.
At Allata, we value differences.
Allata is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.
Allata makes employment decisions without regard to race, color, creed, religion, age, ancestry, national origin, veteran status, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, disability or any other legally protected category.
This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including but not limited to, recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.
Top Skills
Aurora
Aws Rds
Azure Data Fabric
Azure Sql
Databricks
Fivetran
Ms Sql Server
Oracle
Postgressql
Pyspark
SQL
Stored Procedures
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