Data Engineer - Databricks & SQL Server (Federal)

Groundswell; Virginia (IL); On-site; USD 90,000 - 175,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

Dental benefits

Vision benefits

401K match

Paid time off

On-site gym

Childcare options

Tuition reimbursement

Job summary

Groundswell is seeking an experienced Data Engineer to join our DOT-focused team, combining data engineering and database administration across MariaDB, SQL Server, and Databricks.

You will design scalable Databricks solutions, tune performance, manage security, and collaborate with stakeholders to deliver secure, reliable data platforms. This role requires US citizenship and the ability to obtain a federal Public Trust; on-site presence may be required at times.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics, or a related technical field.
• 5+ years of experience in data engineering, database administration, or database development.
• Demonstrated hands-on Databricks experience.
• Experience administering SQL Server and/or MariaDB enterprise databases.
• Advanced SQL skills, including developing and optimizing queries, stored procedures, functions, triggers, tables, and views.
• Proficiency in Python, Java, or Scala.
• Experience developing ETL/ELT pipelines using tools such as Apache Airflow, AWS Glue, or similar technologies.
• Experience with database performance tuning, backup and restoration, disaster recovery, security, and access management.
• Strong stakeholder engagement, communication, collaboration, and problem-solving skills.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement scalable Databricks solutions and ETL/ELT pipelines.
• Apply Databricks development standards and data engineering best practices.
• Administer and monitor enterprise MariaDB and SQL Server environments.
• Design databases, schemas, tables, views, stored procedures, functions, and triggers.
• Perform database configuration, backup, restoration, performance tuning, and disaster recovery.
• Optimize SQL queries, indexes, database objects, pipelines, and server performance.
• Configure and support availability groups, mirroring, clusters, encryption, and reporting servers.
• Apply best practices for data modeling, relational database design, data warehousing, data quality, and lineage.
• Implement database security, auditing, user access, roles, permissions, and domain-level accounts.
• Troubleshoot complex database, application, and data pipeline issues.
• Collaborate with business stakeholders, infrastructure, network, application, development, and vendor teams.
• Translate business and technical requirements into secure, scalable data solutions.
• Deliver technical demonstrations and training and support proposal efforts.

Skills

Stakeholder engagement

Leadership

Communication

Problem solving

Team collaboration

Data security awareness

Education

Bachelor's degree in a technical field

Tools

Databricks

SQL Server

MariaDB

Python/Java/Scala

Airflow

AWS Glue

Job description

Groundswell is seeking an experienced Data Engineer to join our DOT-focused team, combining data engineering and database administration across MariaDB, SQL Server, and Databricks.

You will design scalable Databricks solutions, tune performance, manage security, and collaborate with stakeholders to deliver secure, reliable data platforms. This role requires US citizenship and the ability to obtain a federal Public Trust; on-site presence may be required at times.