Databricks Lakehouse Lead Engineer

Norfolk Southern Corp.; Atlanta (GA); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Job summary

Norfolk Southern Corp. is seeking a Lead Data Engineer to define architecture for a Databricks lakehouse and streaming analytics. You will lead the team, shape pipelines, and ensure production-grade ingestion and transformation with strong governance and data modeling discipline.

You will collaborate across data science, BI, and engineering teams, mentoring others and delivering scalable data solutions in a hybrid work environment at our Atlanta area operations.

Qualifications

• Databricks Lakehouse expertise with Spark/PySpark pipelines.
• Strong data modeling and SQL skills; governance practices.
• Leadership in design, mentoring, and delivery.

Responsibilities

• Define data architecture for lakehouse, ingestion, and transformation.
• Unblock delivery with hands-on problem solving and coordination.
• Lead enterprise data models across domains.
• Enforce data modeling standards and governance.
• Develop data requirements and validate large datasets.
• Build and maintain scalable data pipelines and interfaces.
• Collaborate with data science and BI teams for models and pipelines.

Skills

Databricks Lakehouse

Streaming & Cloud

Data Modeling & SQL

Technical Leadership

Delivery & Collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree in IT/CS

Tools

Databricks

Kafka

AWS Analytics

Snowflake

Delta Lake

BigQuery

Erwin

Job description

Norfolk Southern Corp. is seeking a Lead Data Engineer to define architecture for a Databricks lakehouse and streaming analytics. You will lead the team, shape pipelines, and ensure production-grade ingestion and transformation with strong governance and data modeling discipline.

You will collaborate across data science, BI, and engineering teams, mentoring others and delivering scalable data solutions in a hybrid work environment at our Atlanta area operations.