Senior Azure Databricks Data Engineer

Job Duties

• Assists with the data technology strategy, including resolvingstrategic data integration issues, such as data quality and stewardship,real-time,
• Event-based data integration, and crafting a universal vision for data integration
• Provides direction and oversight for the design and implementation of data solutions for integration and synthesis across multiple secure systems
• Assists with the definition, implementation, and continued adherence of new data management policies and design standards for data engineering
• Provides advice, training, and technical support for various projects
• Participates in project activities such as requirements gathering, solution reviews, and explaining technical complexities to non-technical personnel
• Work closely with the solution leads, project managers, data architects, data scientists, and data analysts on solution design, architecture, and implementation
• Assists with extraction, transformation, and loading of data from a wide variety of data sources using various data engineering tools and methods.
• Designs, builds, and maintains batch and streaming data pipelines in Azure Databricks using Py Spark, Spark SQL, and Delta Lake, following a medallion (bronze/silver/gold) lake house architecture
• Develops, loads, and tunes dimensional data models and SQL workloads in Azure Synapse Analytics (dedicated and serverless SQL pools) to support reporting and dashboard needs
• Orchestrates and monitors data workflows using Databricks Workflows/Jobs and Synapse or Azure Data Factory pipelines, including scheduling, alerting, and failure recovery
• Applies data governance and security controls (e.g., Unity Catalog permissions, role-based access, row- and column-level security, data masking) to protect sensitive health data (PHI/PII) in accordance with HIPAA and agency policy
• Assists with documenting and demonstrating solutions by developing documentation, flowcharts, layouts, diagrams, charts, code comments and clear code.
• Assists in operations by conducting systems analysis; recommendingchanges in policies and procedures.
• The job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee.  Other duties, responsibilities and activities may change or be assigned at any time.