Senior Databricks Data Engineer (AWS) - Remote Opportunity

Previous experience with a government client is required.

This is a remote position with a federal client who is based in Lanham, MD. Candidates must reside and perform work within the United States.

Position Overview

We are seeking two Senior Databricks Data Engineers to support a large-scale federal Enterprise Data Platform (EDP) modernization initiative. This role will focus on designing, developing, optimizing, and governing cloud-native data solutions utilizing Databricks Lakehouse technologies and Amazon Web Services (AWS).

The ideal candidate possesses extensive experience building enterprise-scale data pipelines, implementing data governance controls, optimizing large-scale data processing workloads, and enabling secure analytics capabilities in cloud environments. This position offers the opportunity to support a mission-critical federal data platform supporting trusted data intake, governed access, and advanced analytics capabilities.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable data ingestion, transformation, and publishing pipelines utilizing Databricks and AWS services.
• Implement and optimize Databricks Lakehouse capabilities including Unity Catalog, Delta Live Tables, Auto Loader, Databricks SQL, and Delta Sharing.
• Build and maintain governed data products supporting operational, analytical, reporting, and machine learning workloads.
• Develop and support medallion architecture data pipelines and enterprise data quality frameworks.
• Implement data governance controls, metadata management, lineage tracking, and data retention policies.
• Collaborate with cloud engineers, architects, cybersecurity specialists, and business stakeholders to deliver secure, production-ready solutions.
• Optimize platform performance through partitioning, clustering, caching, workload tuning, and query optimization techniques.
• Support analytics enablement through semantic layers, dashboards, reporting solutions, and self-service data access capabilities.
• Participate in architecture reviews, operational readiness activities, platform modernization initiatives, and continuous improvement efforts.
• Create and maintain technical documentation, design artifacts, operational procedures, and engineering standards.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related discipline.
• Minimum eight (8) years of experience in cloud-based data engineering, platform development, or data architecture.
• Minimum three (3) years of hands-on Databricks experience in production environments.
• Experience designing, developing, and supporting large-scale ETL/ELT solutions.
• Strong experience with AWS services including S3, IAM, Glue, Athena, Lambda, Redshift, and CloudWatch.
• Experience implementing enterprise data governance and security controls.
• Strong SQL and Python development skills.
• Experience working with data lakes, data warehouses, and cloud-native analytics platforms.
• Strong troubleshooting, performance tuning, and optimization experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Databricks Certified Data Engineer Associate or Professional certification.
• AWS Data Analytics Specialty certification.
• Experience supporting federal government or highly regulated environments.
• Experience with real-time streaming, CDC solutions, and event-driven architectures.
• Familiarity with FedRAMP, FISMA, and NIST security frameworks.
• Experience supporting large-scale enterprise data platforms.

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