Staff Data Engineer (Databricks) - Remote AI Data Lead

Jobgether; Italy; Remote; EUR 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote work

Flexible working arrangements

International collaboration

Career growth

Job summary

Jobgether, via a partner company, seeks a Staff Data Engineer (Databricks Specialist) in Italy to lead design and development of scalable data platforms using Databricks and cloud-native tech across Azure, AWS, or GCP.

You will mentor engineers, shape enterprise data architecture, implement MDM, and guide AI-powered data solutions while driving data governance, quality, and performance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, MIS, or related preferred.
• 12+ years of professional experience in data engineering or software engineering.
• Expert SQL and Python; Scala/Java a plus.
• Extensive experience with Databricks and cloud data platforms.
• Strong cloud-native architecture, ETL/ELT, and data modeling knowledge.
• Experience with MDM, entity resolution, and data governance.

Responsibilities

• Own the technical architecture of cross-functional data initiatives across ingestion, transformation, storage, and serving layers.
• Design, develop and maintain scalable data pipelines using Databricks and cloud tech across Azure, AWS, or GCP.
• Lead MDM initiatives including golden records, entity resolution, and hierarchy management.
• Architect AI-enabled data platforms with LLM/agentic components and RAG pipelines.
• Build data foundations for ML/AI apps including feature stores and ML/LLMOps pipelines.
• Develop backend data services and REST/GraphQL APIs for curated datasets.
• Establish engineering standards for data modeling, quality, testing, observability, CI/CD, and responsible AI.
• Lead data governance, lineage, cataloging, and quality frameworks.

Skills

SQL

Python

Databricks

Cloud platforms

REST/GraphQL

CI/CD

IaC

Data modeling

Data governance

Mentoring

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

Databricks

Snowflake

Azure Synapse

BigQuery

Amazon Redshift

Job description

Jobgether, via a partner company, seeks a Staff Data Engineer (Databricks Specialist) in Italy to lead design and development of scalable data platforms using Databricks and cloud-native tech across Azure, AWS, or GCP.

You will mentor engineers, shape enterprise data architecture, implement MDM, and guide AI-powered data solutions while driving data governance, quality, and performance.