Embedded Data Platform Lead — Utilities

Engg; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

E Source is seeking a Forward Deployed Data Engineer IV to embed with utility clients and build production data platforms end to end. You will own architecture, governance, and delivery across engagements, ensuring data is reliable and usable by client teams after handover.

Responsibilities include rapid delivery, discovery, and collaboration with ML/AI teams. Ideal candidates have 5+ years in data engineering, experience with Databricks, Spark, Python, SQL, and AWS, and a strong ability to

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information technology, or a related field.
• Five or more years of experience in data engineering, data platform, or analytics engineering, with at least one platform owned.

Responsibilities

• Embed with utility clients to design and build production data platforms end to end: ingestion, transformation, orchestration, quality, governance, and serving.
• Own the technical architecture of each engagement and defend it to client architects, security teams, and platform owners.
• Run technical discovery independently and deliver a working system early in engagements, iterating toward production hardening.

Skills

Databricks

Spark

Python

SQL

AWS

Kafka

Knowledge graph modeling

Graph database

REST APIs

Education

Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field

Tools

Databricks Apps

React

Streamlit

Dash

Job description

E Source is seeking a Forward Deployed Data Engineer IV to embed with utility clients and build production data platforms end to end. You will own architecture, governance, and delivery across engagements, ensuring data is reliable and usable by client teams after handover.

Responsibilities include rapid delivery, discovery, and collaboration with ML/AI teams. Ideal candidates have 5+ years in data engineering, experience with Databricks, Spark, Python, SQL, and AWS, and a strong ability to