AI Data Enablement Engineer

Xenon Seven; Italia; On-site; EUR 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Xenon Seven is seeking a Data Enablement Engineer in Italy to design, build, and operate trusted data foundations for AI-enabled analytics. You will craft semantic models, governance, and data products that empower business users to interact with governed data via natural language interfaces.

You will work on Databricks-based data pipelines, Genie spaces, and RAG-enabled apps, collaborating with Finance stakeholders to translate domain needs into scalable data products.

Qualifications

• 5+ years hands-on data engineering on cloud data platforms with Databricks delivery.
• Hands-on experience with Databricks Genie in production pilots.
• Semantic layer / governed data products delivery with KPI definitions and business glossary alignment.
• Strong across dbt, PySpark, SQL, and Python.
• Orchestration with Airflow or Databricks Workflows.
• Data governance in regulated environments (RBAC, RLS, masking, lineage).
• Experience integrating structured and unstructured data into AI-enabled workflows.

Responsibilities

• Design and build AI-ready data products on Databricks with semantic models and KPI hierarchies.
• Implement semantic layers and governed datasets for BI and natural-language querying.
• Deploy and operate Databricks Genie spaces with Unity Catalog and tuning.
• Build RAG pipelines and interactive analytics apps (Streamlit/Databricks Apps).
• Engineer robust ETL/ELT pipelines (dbt, Airflow, PySpark).
• Implement data governance including RBAC, masking, lineage, auditing.

Skills

Databricks

Genie

Semantic layer

dbt

PySpark

SQL

Python

Airflow

Data governance

Structured data integration

Tools

Databricks

Airflow

dbt

Python

Job description

Our Client's Digital Finance IT is building an AI-enablement layer on top of our enterprise data platform to enable business users across Finance to interact with governed data in natural language. We're hiring a Data Enablement Engineer to design, build, and operate the trusted datasets, semantic models, and embedded AI experiences that make this possible. This is a data platform engineering role, not a data science or model-building role. You will spend your time engineering the data foundation that makes AI reliable — semantic layers, governed data products, and embedded natural-language analytics — not training models.

What You’ll Do

• Design and build AI-ready data products on Databricks — trusted datasets with well-defined business semantics, KPIs, hierarchies, and business glossary alignment
• Implement semantic layers and governed datasets that support both traditional BI consumption and natural-language querying by business users
• Deploy and operate Databricks Genie spaces with Unity Catalog, tuning them for accuracy, adoption, and business relevance
• Build RAG pipelines and conversational analytics applications grounded in governed enterprise data — including Streamlit or Databricks Apps that let business users query data without writing SQL
• Engineer robust ETL/ELT pipelines (dbt, Airflow, PySpark) that produce and maintain the trusted data these AI experiences depend on
• Implement data governance — RBAC, row/column-level security, masking, lineage, auditability, catalog and metadata management — in a regulated pharma environment
• Optimize cost and performance on both the data platform side (warehouse sizing, cluster tuning, query optimization) and the AI side (token usage, caching, model routing)
• Partner with Finance business stakeholders to translate domain requirements into semantic models and governed data products they can trust

Must-Have Experience

• 5+ years hands-on data engineering on cloud data platforms — Databricks demonstrated in real project delivery, not skill-list-only
• Direct hands-on experience with Databricks Genie — you have built, configured, and tuned these in production or advanced pilots, with specific reference to the flavors used (Genie spaces with semantic models)
• Semantic layer / trusted data product delivery — you have built governed datasets that business users can rely on, with KPI definitions, hierarchies, and business glossary alignment
• dbt, PySpark, SQL, Python — strong across the modern data stack
• Orchestration with Airflow, Databricks Workflows, or equivalent
• Data governance in regulated environments — RBAC, RLS, masking, lineage, auditability
• Experience integrating structured and unstructured data (PDFs, SharePoint/Teams content, enterprise knowledge sources) into AI-enablement workflows

Nice to Have

• Pharma, life sciences, or regulated financial services domain experience
• Veeva CRM, IQVIA, SAP, or clinical data source integration
• Streamlit or Databricks Apps for business-facing analytics
• Databricks Data Engineer Professional certification
• LangChain, LlamaIndex, or equivalent RAG frameworks
• Cost optimization on both compute (warehouse/cluster) and LLM (tokens/caching/routing) dimensions

What We’re NOT Looking For

• Data Scientists — this role is not model training, fine-tuning, LoRA/RLHF, or ML research
• Pure Data Engineers who list Cortex or Genie as a skill but haven't shipped it in production
• AI/GenAI engineers whose center of gravity is LangChain agents or RAG-over-documents, without a strong governed data platform foundation
• Computer vision, NLP model builders, or multi-agent orchestration specialists — wrong shape for this role