Remote Staff AI & Data Engineer on Databricks

Eliassen Group; Dover (DE); Remote; USD 110,000 - 124,000; Part time

Job summary

Eliassen Group is seeking a Staff AI & Data Engineer to design and build enterprise-grade data and AI solutions on Databricks. This remote, contract role emphasizes production-grade data pipelines, governance, and AI agent readiness across Bronze-Silver-Gold architectures.

Ideal candidates bring advanced Databricks, Spark, Delta Lake, and SQL experience, plus Python and cloud services (AWS). The role offers a competitive W2 hourly rate and a comprehensive benefits package for eligible

Qualifications

• Advanced hands-on experience with Databricks, Apache Spark, Delta Lake, and SQL.
• Hands-on experience with AWS services related to data analytics and AI, including EMR and Bedrock.
• Strong Python and SQL development skills.
• Experience building scalable batch and/or streaming data pipelines.
• Deep understanding of Bronze/Silver/Gold medallion architectures.

Responsibilities

• Design and build production-grade data pipelines on Databricks.
• Ingest data from enterprise applications, databases, APIs, SaaS platforms, files, and other source systems.
• Build and maintain Bronze, Silver, and Gold medallion architectures.
• Implement incremental processing and change data capture patterns where appropriate.
• Standardize types, codes, units, keys, and business definitions across source systems.
• Implement deduplication, historical tracking, schema evolution, and data lineage.
• Optimize pipelines for reliability, performance, scalability, and cost.
• Build a configuration-driven source onboarding framework and Lakeflow pipeline templates.
• Automate source registration, deployment, monitoring, lineage, and operational controls.
• Implement data quality expectations, anomaly detection, monitoring, and quarantine processes.
• Implement job and pipeline monitoring, alerting, audit logging, and operational dashboards.
• Support automated deployment and promotion using Databricks Asset Bundles and CI/CD.
• Develop conformed dimensions and shared-key strategies across domains.
• Build integrated Gold-layer products and reusable data contracts.
• Build AI-ready Gold data products with ownership, lineage, definitions, and quality information.
• Develop semantic context, business glossary, ontology, and certified KPIs in Unity Catalog.
• Build governed Unity Catalog functions and agent-ready tools and endpoints.
• Implement tracing, evaluation, testing, monitoring, and governance for AI and agent workflows.
• Support development of AI agents that use trusted enterprise data.

Skills

Databricks

Spark

Delta Lake

SQL

Python

AI/GenAI

Data Pipelines

Tools

Databricks

Spark

Delta Lake

AWS EMR

Bedrock

CI/CD

Job description

Eliassen Group is seeking a Staff AI & Data Engineer to design and build enterprise-grade data and AI solutions on Databricks. This remote, contract role emphasizes production-grade data pipelines, governance, and AI agent readiness across Bronze-Silver-Gold architectures.

Ideal candidates bring advanced Databricks, Spark, Delta Lake, and SQL experience, plus Python and cloud services (AWS). The role offers a competitive W2 hourly rate and a comprehensive benefits package for eligible