Remote Senior Data Engineer - Databricks Lakehouse Leader

Inceed; Greenwood Village (CO); Remote; USD 119,000 - 145,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive benefits package

Job summary

Inceed is partnering with a great company to hire a Senior Data Engineer on a Databricks lakehouse platform. This role offers ownership of architecture, scalable pipelines, and collaboration with data, BI, and enterprise teams to deliver trusted data for reporting and AI use cases.

You will drive with hands-on engineering, modernizing workloads, and optimizing performance and costs while maintaining governance and robust CI/CD practices.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in data engineering, warehousing, or BI.
• 5+ years building production platforms on Databricks or Spark.
• Advanced knowledge of Delta Lake and Databricks workflows.
• Experience migrating legacy data platforms to modern cloud architecture.

Responsibilities

• Own the technical design of the Databricks lakehouse platform.
• Build and optimize pipelines using PySpark, Spark SQL, and Delta Live Tables.
• Design enterprise data models and gold-layer reporting structures.
• Support migration from legacy SQL Server, SSIS, Synapse, and ADF workloads.
• Implement Unity Catalog governance and data access controls.
• Tune performance, reliability, and cloud costs across the platform.
• Establish CI/CD, testing, and environment promotion standards.
• Partner with business users and BI teams on self-service analytics.
• Review offshore partner work and maintain engineering quality.
• Document architecture decisions and operational runbooks.

Skills

Databricks

PySpark

Spark SQL

SQL

Tools

Delta Live Tables

Delta Lake

Unity Catalog

Job description

Inceed is partnering with a great company to hire a Senior Data Engineer on a Databricks lakehouse platform. This role offers ownership of architecture, scalable pipelines, and collaboration with data, BI, and enterprise teams to deliver trusted data for reporting and AI use cases.

You will drive with hands-on engineering, modernizing workloads, and optimizing performance and costs while maintaining governance and robust CI/CD practices.