Databricks Engineer – Data Platform & AI Enablement

AXIS Capital; Dublin; Hybrid; EUR 78,000 - 91,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical plans for you and family

Retirement plans

Tuition reimbursement

Paid annual leave

Job summary

AXIS Capital is seeking a Databricks Engineer to design, build, and operate scalable data integration and analytics solutions. You will work with Solution Engineers and Data Architecture to translate designs into production-grade implementations, improving platform reliability and data quality.

You will contribute to governance, security, and performance while partnering with offshore teams and stakeholders to deliver data-driven outcomes across the organization.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a numerate discipline.
• At least 5 years of experience in data engineering roles.
• At least 3 years of hands-on Databricks and Delta Lake experience.
• Strong Azure data platform expertise (Databricks, ADF, Synapse, Event Hubs, Functions, ADLS Gen2, Key Vault, DevOps).
• Proficiency in Spark, PySpark, and SQL.
• Experience implementing Medallion / Lakehouse architectures.
• Familiarity with data governance, Unity Catalog, and DQ frameworks.
• Understanding of security, compliance, CI/CD, and IaC (Bicep/Terraform).
• MLOps and AI platform knowledge: MLflow, feature stores, model lifecycle and deployment patterns.

Responsibilities

• Data Integration & Ingestion Design and implement data integration solutions in collaboration with the Solution Engineer and data architects.
• Support ingestion, transformation, and orchestration using ADF, Synapse pipelines, Databricks Workflows, and event-based patterns.
• Implement batch, incremental, and event-driven ingestion using agreed reference architectures.
• Maintain and extend data integration frameworks.
• Data Modeling & Consumption Contribute to data modeling standards (Dimensional, Data Vault, Lakehouse).
• Implement analytics-ready models and semantic layers for BI and ML.
• Apply agreed data contracts and integration patterns.
• Governance, Security & Compliance Implement data cataloging, lineage, and data quality controls.
• Apply RBAC, ABAC, encryption, and auditability controls.
• Performance & Operational Excellence Optimize Databricks performance, cost, and storage layout.
• Monitor and troubleshoot pipelines and workloads.
• Platform Evolution & Collaboration Support platform modernization, POCs, and migrations.
• Contribute to engineering standards and participate in design reviews.
• Partner with offshore teams, architects, and business stakeholders.
• You may also be required to take on additional duties, responsibilities and activities appropriate to the nature of this role.

Skills

Databricks

Delta Lake

Azure Data Platform

Spark

PySpark

SQL

Data Modeling

Data Governance

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IT

Tools

ADF

Synapse

Event Hubs

Terraform / Bicep

DevOps

Job description

AXIS Capital is seeking a Databricks Engineer to design, build, and operate scalable data integration and analytics solutions. You will work with Solution Engineers and Data Architecture to translate designs into production-grade implementations, improving platform reliability and data quality.

You will contribute to governance, security, and performance while partnering with offshore teams and stakeholders to deliver data-driven outcomes across the organization.