Platform & Analytics Engineer: Databricks & Dashboards

Profiles; Irvine (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Profiles, a leading financial services company, is seeking a Platform & Analytics Engineer in Irvine, CA for a contract-to-hire, full-time onsite role three days a week. You will own data pipelines in Databricks, build dashboards for executives, and support production platforms including Encompass and Salesforce.

The ideal candidate has 4+ years in hybrid data/platform roles, strong SQL and Python, and hands-on Databricks Unity Catalog experience; Power BI/Tableau skills are a plus.

Qualifications

• 4+ years in a hybrid data/platform role (analytics engineering, BI development, platform operations, or similar).
• Strong SQL (Spark SQL a plus) and Python for pipelines, automation, and reporting.
• Hands-on experience with a modern data platform (Databricks strongly preferred).
• Experience building executive-facing dashboards (Databricks, Power BI, Tableau, or equivalent).
• Demonstrated experience supporting production systems, including on-call rotations and vendor escalations.
• Design, build, and maintain dashboards and recurring reports for executives, operations, and sales leadership across forward and reverse mortgage divisions.
• Own data pipelines and curated datasets in Databricks Unity Catalog (Spark SQL, Python), automating manual reporting and retiring spreadsheet-driven processes.
• Serve as primary on-call escalation point for production platform incidents (Encompass, Salesforce, Relcu, Five9, Databricks) — triaging, communicating status, and driving resolution.
• Build monitoring, alerting, and health checks to catch issues proactively, and perform root-cause analysis to implement lasting fixes.
• Support platform integrations and data sync (APIs, connectors, scheduled jobs), and document systems/runbooks so knowledge is shared.

Responsibilities

• Own and optimize data pipelines and datasets in Databricks Unity Catalog.
• Build and maintain executive dashboards using Databricks, Power BI, or Tableau.
• Provide on-call production support and drive incident resolutions across platforms.
• Collaborate with operations, sales, and IT teams to automate reporting and reduce spreadsheet usage.
• Document runbooks and ensure monitoring/alerts catch issues early.

Skills

Spark SQL

Python

Databricks

Dashboards

On-call

Data pipelines

Tools

Databricks Unity Catalog

Power BI

Tableau

Encompass

Salesforce

Five9

Job description

Profiles, a leading financial services company, is seeking a Platform & Analytics Engineer in Irvine, CA for a contract-to-hire, full-time onsite role three days a week. You will own data pipelines in Databricks, build dashboards for executives, and support production platforms including Encompass and Salesforce.

The ideal candidate has 4+ years in hybrid data/platform roles, strong SQL and Python, and hands-on Databricks Unity Catalog experience; Power BI/Tableau skills are a plus.