Data Platform Engineer: AI Pipelines & Lakehouse

Harley Ellis Devereaux (HED); Sacramento (CA); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Harley Ellis Devereaux (HED) is seeking a Data Platform Developer to build, evaluate, and improve the AI-enabled data capabilities that support our people and our practice. You will work on a modern lakehouse built on Databricks, Delta Lake, and Unity Catalog, connecting business systems to trusted analytics and emerging AI applications.

This individual contributor role carries ownership of production pipelines, platform health, data documentation, and continuous improvement.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience building and supporting production data pipelines.
• Strong SQL and Python skills with Spark or similar framework.
• Experience troubleshooting production jobs and incident response.
• Experience with monitoring, alerting, and data reliability practices.
• Ability to document clearly for technical and business stakeholders.
• Familiarity with Delta Lake, Unity Catalog, and Databricks components preferred.

Responsibilities

• Develop, operate, and improve ingestion and transformation pipelines across Bronze, Silver, and Gold data layers.
• Administer and continuously improve the Databricks environment, including workflows, compute standards, data storage, access controls, and Unity Catalog governance.
• Maintain version-controlled, reproducible platform configurations and deployment workflows; identify and resolve differences between source control and production environments.
• Implement automated data quality checks and schema contract tests to protect governed datasets from unexpected changes.
• Monitor pipeline freshness, availability, performance, and cost; maintain actionable alerts, dashboards, and operational runbooks.
• Investigate and resolve production incidents, coordinate data recovery and backfills, document root causes, and implement preventive improvements.
• Maintain technical lineage, source metadata, the data dictionary, and platform documentation; collaborate with business owners to confirm definitions and accountability.
• Assess downstream impacts of schema changes, coordinate communications with data consumers, and support controlled changes across dependent systems.
• Collaborate with analytics and AI development colleagues to deliver reliable, well-governed data products and evaluate AI-assisted operational workflows.
• Contribute to platform architecture, technical standards, and future data-source onboarding as experience and ownership expand.

Skills

SQL

Python

Spark

Data pipelines

Tools

Databricks

Delta Lake

Unity Catalog

Azure Data Lake Storage

Grafana

Prometheus

Git CI/CD

Job description

Harley Ellis Devereaux (HED) is seeking a Data Platform Developer to build, evaluate, and improve the AI-enabled data capabilities that support our people and our practice. You will work on a modern lakehouse built on Databricks, Delta Lake, and Unity Catalog, connecting business systems to trusted analytics and emerging AI applications.

This individual contributor role carries ownership of production pipelines, platform health, data documentation, and continuous improvement.