Databricks Engineer

Work Location

Hybrid,3 days remote with 2 days (Mondays and Thursdays) required to be onsite

Office Location: 4601 W. Guadalupe, Texas 78751

Candidates must be local to Austin, TX or surrounding areas.**

Job Description

We are currently seeking a contract Databricks Engineer to be a key resource on a technical services team for our client, the Texas Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC).

Responsibilities

The Databricks Engineer should design, develop, and optimize scalable data solutions on Databricks, leveraging PySpark or Scala for large-scale data processing. Build and maintain ingestion pipelines, Declarative Pipelines (DLT), and Medallion Architecture (Bronze, Silver, Gold) to support enterprise analytics and reporting. Develop robust data models and implement data quality, validation, and governance frameworks. Create dynamic dashboards, Databricks Apps, and analytical solutions to deliver actionable business insights. Optimize workloads, monitoring, and operational processes to ensure scalability, security, and cost efficiency.

8 or more years of experience, relies on experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals, independently performs a variety of complicated tasks, a wide degree of creativity and latitude is expected.

Understands business objectives and problems, identifies alternative solutions, performs studies and cost/benefit analysis of alternatives. Analyzes user requirements, procedures, and problems to automate processing or to improve existing computer system: Confers with personnel of organizational units involved to analyze current operational procedures, identify problems, and learn specific input and output requirements, such as forms of data input, how data is to be; summarized, and formats for reports. Writes detailed description of user needs, program functions, and steps required to develop or modify computer program. Reviews computer system capabilities, specifications, and scheduling limitations to determine if requested program or program change is possible within existing system.

Qualifications

Minimum Requirements:

8 years of:

• Experience in IT, supporting the design, development, deployment, or delivery of technology solutions.
• Experience with Databricks, including building and optimizing ETL/ELT data pipelines using Apache Spark.
• Experience in data warehousing and dimensional data modeling (star/snowflake schemas).
• Proficiency in SQL and Python (or Scala) for large-scale data processing.
• Experience designing and developing dashboards and applications natively within Databricks (e.g., Databricks SQL dashboards, Databricks Apps).
• Experience implementing data governance, data quality, and data security practices.
• Experience implementing Lakeflow Declarative Pipelines (formerly Delta Live Tables/DLT) for building and managing production data pipelines.
• Experience with Delta Lake, medallion architecture (bronze/silver/gold layers), data lakehouse design, and creating and scheduling offline jobs using Lakeflow Jobs (formerly Databricks Workflows) or similar orchestration tools (e.g., Airflow).
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written, including presenting insights to technical and business stakeholders.

Preferred:

1 year of:

• Experience working in public sector or state government environments.
• Databricks certification (e.g., Databricks Certified Data Engineer Associate/Professional).
• Experience with CI/CD practices for data pipelines (DevOps, Git-based workflows).

Company Overview

Allied Consultants has been contracted with the Texas State Government for 34 years, we are a Top Ten ranked vendor, and premier provider of technical and business staffing solutions. Allied Consultants offers its family of consultants excellent rates, a local support staff, and an attractive benefits package which includes medical insurance (Allied shares a percentage of the cost), life insurance, a matching 401(k) plan and a cafeteria plan. Candidates selected for interview will be required to undergo criminal background checks and may be required to complete a drug screen in accordance with Federal and State Law. Offers of Employment are contingent on a successful background check. Allied Consultants is an equal opportunities employer.