Lead Data Engineer: Databricks Lakehouse Architect

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

Job summary

Norfolk Southern Corporation is seeking a Lead Data Engineer to guide Databricks-based lakehouse architecture, streaming analytics, and scalable data pipelines. You will partner with stakeholders to translate requirements into production-grade ingestion, transformation, and governance capabilities while driving engineering quality and delivery across teams.

The role emphasizes hands-on leadership, cross-functional collaboration, and shaping data solutions for enterprise-scale analytics and ML

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a tech field.
• 10+ years data engineering with Databricks.
• Strong leadership and collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Define data architecture for lakehouse and pipelines.
• Unblock delivery through hands-on problem solving.
• Lead design of enterprise data models across domains.
• Collaborate with data science and BI teams.

Skills

Databricks Lakehouse

Spark PySpark

Delta Lake

Unity Catalog

Kafka

AWS Analytics

Data Modeling

Python/Scala

Leadership

ETL/ELT

Education

Bachelor’s Degree

Tools

Erwin

Git

REST API

Job description

Norfolk Southern Corporation is seeking a Lead Data Engineer to guide Databricks-based lakehouse architecture, streaming analytics, and scalable data pipelines. You will partner with stakeholders to translate requirements into production-grade ingestion, transformation, and governance capabilities while driving engineering quality and delivery across teams.

The role emphasizes hands-on leadership, cross-functional collaboration, and shaping data solutions for enterprise-scale analytics and ML