Data Engineer (Databricks)

Elitez India; Singapore; On-site; SGD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Elitez India is seeking a Data Engineer to design, develop, and maintain scalable data pipelines on Databricks and cloud platforms. You will integrate diverse data sources, ensure data quality, and support analytics, reporting, and machine learning workloads.

You will collaborate with analytics, product, and infrastructure teams to advance the data platform, governance, monitoring, and reliability. The role emphasizes building robust pipelines, scheduling, and real-time processing capabilities.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of data engineering experience with scalable pipelines.
• Experience in data modelling and distributed computing architectures.
• Hands-on with PySpark, Spark SQL and Databricks notebooks/jobs.
• Experience orchestrating pipelines with ADF, Airflow or similar tools.
• Experience with real-time and batch data processing.
• Experience on Azure; AWS experience beneficial.
• Proficiency in SQL with window functions and optimization.
• Familiarity with DevOps, Git workflows, and CI/CD.
• Familiarity with Scrum; working in Scrum teams.
• Strong problem-solving and collaboration mindset.
• Experience with streaming tech like Kafka, Flink, or Kinesis.
• Databricks Certified Data Engineer Associate; Databricks Certified Data Engineer Professional preferred.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain ETL pipelines for centralized data storage (Delta Lake).
• Integrate data from databases, APIs, logs, and streaming platforms.
• Transform data to clean, normalize, and aggregate.
• Apply processing techniques to complex datasets.
• Contribute to frameworks and deployment practices.
• Implement data governance aligned with standards.
• Partner with analytics and product leaders to design pipelines.
• Collaborate with infrastructure to advance cloud platforms.
• Monitor pipelines and resolve issues promptly.
• Develop monitoring tools, alerts, and error handling.
• Validate data extraction requirements and data accuracy.
• Support UAT and production implementation.

Skills

PySpark

Spark SQL

Databricks

SQL (Window functions)

DevOps & CI/CD

Scrum experience

Streaming tech

Problem solving

Collaboration

Tools

Azure Data Factory

Airflow

Databricks notebooks

Git

CI/CD pipelines

Python/Scala

Job description

The Data Engineer will be responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining scalable and reliable data pipelines on Databricks and cloud platforms. The role requires integrating diverse data sources, ensuring high-quality data processing, and supporting analytics, reporting, and machine learning workloads. The role involves collaborating closely with analytics, product, and infrastructure teams to enhance the company’s data platform while adhering to best practices for governance, monitoring, and reliability.

What will you do?

• Develop and maintain ETL pipelines for centralized data storage systems (e.g. Delta Lake).
• Integrate data from databases, APIs, log files, streaming platforms, and external providers
• Develop data transformation routines to clean, normalize, and aggregate data
• Apply data processing techniques to handle complex or inconsistent datasets
• Contribute to frameworks and best practices for code development and deployment
• Implement data governance in alignment with company standards
• Partner with analytics and product leaders to design and operationalize pipelines
• Collaborate with infrastructure leaders to advance cloud-based data platforms
• Explore new tools and techniques leveraging Azure, Databricks, or related platforms
• Monitor data pipelines to detect and resolve issues promptly
• Develop monitoring tools, alerts, and automated error-handling mechanisms
• Analyse business requirements and identify data extraction requirements
• Attend requirement grooming and refinement sessions with users
• Develop and maintain ETL pipelines for ingestion, transformation, validation, and loading
• Optimise performance and batch scheduling
• Develop dashboards, reports, scorecards, and data visualizations
• Perform SIT, data validation, data profiling and confirm data accuracy
• Validate completeness and consistency of ETL Loads
• Support UAT and production implementation

Qualifications

The ideal candidate should possess:

• 3 or more years of experience in data engineering with scalable pipelines
• Strong experience designing data solutions including data modelling and distributed computing architectures
• Hands-on experience with data processing jobs using PySpark, Spark SQL, and Databricks notebooks/jobs
• Experience orchestrating data pipelines with ADF, Airflow, or similar tools
• Experience with both real-time and batch data processing
• Experience building pipelines on Azure, with AWS experience beneficial
• Proficiency in SQL including window functions and performance optimization
• Understanding of DevOps tools, Git workflows, and CI/CD pipelines
• Familiarity with Scrum methodology and experience working in Scrum teams
• Ability to apply Scrum practices in a practical project context
• Strong problem-solving and collaborative mindset
• Experience with streaming technologies such as Apache Kafka, Apache Flink, or AWS Kinesis
• Ability to design and implement real-time data processing pipelines
• Must have Databricks Certified Data Engineer Associate and Databricks Certified Data Engineer Professional is strongly preferred