Data Engineer

Job#: 3032030

Job Description:
Data Engineer

Location: Remote

Employment Type: Contract to Perm

Role Overview

The Senior Data Engineer supports enterprise data warehousing and analytics initiatives in a Databricks and Azure SQL environment. This role focuses on designing, building, and maintaining scalable and reliable data pipelines and analytics-ready data models that enable reporting and data-driven decision-making across the organization. The Senior Data Engineer partners closely with BI developers, product owners, and business stakeholders to ensure data is accurate, governed, and aligned with enterprise standards while meeting compliance requirements.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain scalable and reliable data pipeline architectures and patterns.
• Assemble large and complex data sets that meet functional and non-functional business requirements.
• Identify and implement process improvements, including automation of manual workflows, optimization of data delivery, and infrastructure enhancements for scalability.
• Develop ETL and ELT pipelines using Databricks and Azure services to ingest, transform, and load data from diverse source systems.
• Design and implement analytics-ready data models to support reporting and downstream consumption.
• Create automated data quality checks and tests to monitor the reliability and integrity of data assets.
• Partner with stakeholders to support data-related technical issues and evolving data infrastructure needs.
• Ensure secure data separation across Azure regions while maintaining compliance with HIPAA, HITECH, and other applicable regulations.

Required Qualifications

Education: A bachelor's degree in computer science, statistics, informatics, information systems, or a related quantitative field is required.

Experience: This role requires 10 or more years of experience in data engineering or BI development roles. Experience should include working with data lake and lakehouse architectures, designing pipeline architectures, and developing/maintaining APIs and web services.

Technical Skills: Proficiency is required in SQL, including complex query development and performance tuning. Hands-on experience is necessary with Azure services (Databricks, Azure Data Factory, Azure SQL Database, Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2, PySpark, Logic Apps), Databricks Delta tables, Spark declarative pipelines, and programming languages such as Python or Scala.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Advanced SQL expertise with a focus on performance tuning and optimization.
• Experience building large-scale ETL and ELT pipelines using Databricks and Apache Spark.
• Understanding of data lake and lakehouse concepts, including incremental ingestion, partitioning strategies, schema enforcement, and Delta Lake best practices.
• Ability to design and implement dimensional data models (star and snowflake schemas) to support Power BI and analytics use cases.
• Experience managing metadata, data lineage, dependencies, and orchestration for reliable pipelines.
• Analytical and troubleshooting skills, including root cause analysis.
• Ability to collaborate with data architects, DBAs, BI developers, and data scientists.
• Proactive approach to identifying data quality risks, pipeline failures, and performance bottlenecks.
• Attention to detail with a focus on documentation, governance, version control, and auditability.
• Ability to work in an Agile, cross-functional environment while managing multiple priorities.
• Willingness and ability to mentor junior engineers and promote Databricks and Spark best practices.

We are an equal opportunity employer and welcome applications from all qualified candidates regardless of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status.

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Apex Systems is a world-class IT services company that serves thousands of clients across the globe. When you join Apex, you become part of a team that values innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning. We offer quality career resources, training, certifications, development opportunities, and a comprehensive benefits package. Our commitment to excellence is reflected in many awards, including ClearlyRated's Best of Staffing in Talent Satisfaction in the United States and Great Place to Work in the United Kingdom and Mexico. Apex uses a virtual recruiter as part of the application process. Click for more details.

Apex Benefits Overview: Apex offers a range of supplemental benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and other insurance plans that offer an optional layer of financial protection. We offer an ESPP (employee stock purchase program) and a 401K program which allows you to contribute typically within 30 days of starting, with a company match after 12 months of tenure. Apex also offers a HSA (Health Savings Account on the HDHP plan), a SupportLinc Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with up to 8 free counseling sessions, a corporate discount savings program and other discounts. In terms of professional development, Apex hosts an on-demand training program, provides access to certification prep and a library of technical and leadership courses/books/seminars once you have 6+ months of tenure, and certification discounts and other perks to associations that include CompTIA and IIBA. Apex has a dedicated customer service team for our Consultants that can address questions around benefits and other resources, as well as a certified Career Coach. You can access a full list of our benefits, programs, support teams and resources within our 'Welcome Packet' as well, which an Apex team member can provide.