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Lead Data Engineer (Databricks)

Contract Remote, US · Remote Posted 5 days ago
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About the role

Lead the build-out of a unified lakehouse on Databricks for a healthcare analytics platform processing 4B+ clinical events monthly.

Key responsibilities

  • Design medallion architecture (bronze/silver/gold) on Delta Lake with Unity Catalog governance.
  • Author production-grade PySpark and SQL pipelines with DLT and Workflows.
  • Lead a pod of 4 engineers across discovery, build, and release cycles.
  • Partner with data science to productionize feature stores and ML pipelines.
  • Own data quality, lineage, and HIPAA-aligned access controls.

Qualifications

  • 8+ years of data engineering with 3+ years on Databricks or Spark at scale.
  • Expert PySpark, SQL, and Delta Lake; strong Python.
  • Experience with Unity Catalog, Workflows, and CI/CD on Databricks.
  • Proven technical leadership of multi-engineer pods.

Technology stack

DatabricksPySparkDelta LakeAirflowSnowflake
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