Senior AI & Data Engineer, Databricks, Remote

Eliassen Group; Richmond (VA); Remote; USD 110,000 - 124,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401k with company match

Life insurance

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 focuses on strengthening the Databricks platform, onboarding new data sources, and enabling cross‑domain analytics with AI capabilities.

The candidate will work across pipelines, data quality, governance, and semantic layers. The role emphasizes hands-on Databricks, Spark, and Python development, with a strong emphasis on scalable data

Qualifications

• Advanced hands‑on experience with Databricks, Apache Spark, Delta Lake, and SQL.
• Strong Python and SQL development skills.
• Experience building scalable batch and/or streaming data pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Design and build production‑grade data pipelines on Databricks.
• Ingest data from enterprise applications, databases, APIs, and files.
• Build Bronze/Silver/Gold medallion architectures and CDC patterns.
• Automate source registration, deployment, monitoring, and lineage.
• Develop AI-ready data products and governance for enterprise data.

Skills

Databricks

Apache Spark

Delta Lake

Python

SQL

AWS

ETL pipelines

Unity Catalog

CI/CD

GenAI

Tools

Databricks Lakeflow

Git

CI/CD tools

Databricks Genie

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 focuses on strengthening the Databricks platform, onboarding new data sources, and enabling cross‑domain analytics with AI capabilities.

The candidate will work across pipelines, data quality, governance, and semantic layers. The role emphasizes hands-on Databricks, Spark, and Python development, with a strong emphasis on scalable data