Data Platform Engineer (Databricks)

Glint Tech Solutions; Irvine (CA); Presencial; USD 165.000 - 248.000; A tiempo parcial

Descripción de la vacante

Glint Tech Solutions is seeking a Data Platform Engineer to design and build scalable data infrastructure using Databricks for enterprise clients. The role focuses on creating reusable data products, data pipelines, and robust production-ready capabilities while emphasizing governance and observability.

You will collaborate with researchers and engineers to accelerate prototypes into production, leveraging modern data tooling and AI-assisted approaches to deliver reliable data services.

Formación

• 8+ years of platform and data solutions experience.
• Hands-on Databricks experience (workspace, notebooks, jobs) and platform capability development.
• Proficiency in Python and SQL.
• Experience with CI/CD and Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform strongly preferred).
• Knowledge of data governance, lineage, monitoring and observability.
• Experience with orchestration (Airflow).
• Hands-on use of AI agents (Claude Code) to design, build, test, and support solutions.

Responsabilidades

• Design, build, and enhance platform capabilities within Databricks and related technologies.
• Build reusable data products and self-service capabilities.
• Design and maintain data pipelines and integration frameworks.
• Improve data quality, reliability, lineage, and monitoring.
• Partner with researchers to prototype solutions and establish production delivery patterns.

Conocimientos

8+ years of experience

Databricks experience

Python

SQL

Terraform / IaC

Data governance & observability

Airflow

AI fluency with agents

Herramientas

Databricks (workspace)

Descripción del empleo

Job Title: Data Platform Engineer (Databricks)
Location: Los Angeles, CA / Irvine, CA / Seattle, WA / New York, NY (3 days onsite/week)
Employment Type: Contract

Company Overview

Glint Tech Solutions is a women-owned, global IT staffing and recruiting firm serving enterprise clients across the USA and Canada.

Project Description

This role sits at the intersection of platform engineering, data engineering, and data product development for a leading enterprise client. The engineer will build reusable platform capabilities and data products enabling quantitative researchers to discover, access, and consume data across a complex data landscape, then accelerate promising prototypes into production.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, build, and enhance platform capabilities within Databricks and related technologies
• Build reusable data products and self-service capabilities
• Design and maintain data pipelines and integration frameworks
• Improve data quality, reliability, lineage, and monitoring
• Partner with researchers to prototype solutions and establish patterns that streamline research-to-production delivery

Mandatory Skills

• 8+ years of platform and data solutions experience
• Hands-on Databricks experience (workspace, notebooks, jobs) and platform capability development
• Python
• SQL
• Modern CI/CD and Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform strongly preferred)
• Data governance and observability (Unity Catalog, lineage, monitoring)
• Orchestration (Airflow)
• AI fluency — hands-on use of AI agents (Claude Code preferred) to design, build, test, and support solutions

Nice-to-Have Skills

• Financial domain experience, especially quant research
• API development
• PowerBI