Principal Data Architect: Real-Time Marketing & Revenue

MGM Resorts International; Dallas (TX); On-site; USD 126,000 - 168,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Wellness programs

Discounts on hotel stays, dining, and🎟

Free employee dining

Free parking

Healthcare, dental, vision, life; 401k

Development programs and networking

Job summary

MGM Resorts International in Texas invites an experienced Principal Commercial Data Engineer to shape the future of our marketing and revenue data platforms. You will define multi-year architecture, govern data, and drive real-time analytics and AI/ML initiatives across commercial domains.

You will lead cross-functional teams, optimize Databricks workloads, and mentor engineers while partnering with senior leadership to ensure metric consistency and trusted datasets.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field.
• 10+ years of prior relevant experience in data engineering, data platforms, distributed systems, or related fields.
• 5+ years of prior relevant experience in architecting large-scale workloads in Databricks or equivalent Spark platforms.
• Expert-level Databricks and Lakehouse architecture experience.
• Advanced Python, PySpark, and SQL skills.
• Deep expertise in Unity Catalog governance and lineage.
• Proven experience designing enterprise semantic layers and KPI standards.
• Experience implementing enterprise data quality and observability frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Define the multi-year architectural vision for MGM’s Lakehouse platform, including compute, storage, orchestration, semantic layers, governance, and reliability.
• Architect scalable solutions for high-volume Gaming, Hospitality, Loyalty, and Marketing datasets across real-time, batch, and federated environments.
• Establish Marketing and Revenue Management data modeling standards across fact/event layers, dimensional schemas, KPIs, and unified semantic definitions.
• Lead adoption of modern data engineering patterns such as streaming pipelines, Delta Live Tables, feature stores, and ML observability.
• Own Marketing and Revenue Management semantic models and certified curated datasets to ensure metric consistency and governance alignment.
• Define organizational standards for data quality, observability, SLAs/SLOs, and incident lifecycle management.
• Implement automated frameworks for schema drift detection, anomaly monitoring, and pipeline self-healing.
• Optimize Databricks workloads for performance and cost efficiency (ZORDER, OPTIMIZE, workload isolation).
• Mentor Senior and Staff Data Engineers and lead engineering councils.

Skills

Python

PySpark

SQL

Databricks

Lakehouse architecture

Unity Catalog governance

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field

Tools

Delta Live Tables

Job description

MGM Resorts International in Texas invites an experienced Principal Commercial Data Engineer to shape the future of our marketing and revenue data platforms. You will define multi-year architecture, govern data, and drive real-time analytics and AI/ML initiatives across commercial domains.

You will lead cross-functional teams, optimize Databricks workloads, and mentor engineers while partnering with senior leadership to ensure metric consistency and trusted datasets.