Senior Commercial Data Engineer - Lakehouse

MGM Resorts International; Florida; On-site; USD 106,000 - 141,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Wellness programs

Hotel/dining and retail discounts

Free employee dining

Free parking

Healthcare & retirement plans

Career development & volunteer events

Job summary

MGM Resorts International in Las Vegas is seeking a Staff Commercial Data Engineer to architect marketing and revenue data platforms, driving reliable, governed Lakehouse solutions and high-scale analytics.

You will mentor teams and partner with Data Science, Analytics, IT and commercial leadership to own domain-wide data models, metrics, and certified datasets enabling informed business decisions across Gaming, Hospitality, Loyalty and Marketing.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of data engineering, data platform, or analytics engineering experience.
• 5+ years with Databricks or Spark environments.
• Expertise in Databricks and Lakehouse architecture.
• Strong coding proficiency in Python, PySpark, and SQL.
• Experience with Unity Catalog governance and permissions.
• Proven data quality and observability implementation experience.
• Deep knowledge of Delta Lake internals and distributed data processing.
• Experience defining SLAs, anomaly detection, and automated monitoring frameworks.
• Expertise in performance tuning, workload isolation, partitioning, and compute optimization.
• Strong modeling patterns for analytics and operational systems.

Responsibilities

• Serve as architectural owner for Marketing and Revenue Management data models and metrics.
• Design and maintain certified, curated datasets aligned to business logic.
• Architect and optimize Lakehouse solutions for performance, governance, cost and lineage.
• Define conventions for partitioning, Z-ordering, file compaction and workload orchestration.
• Build reusable ingestion, validation, and orchestration frameworks.
• Establish observability standards including data freshness SLAs and schema drift monitoring.
• Implement automated quality gates, impact analysis and self-healing workflows.
• Own performance tuning for batch, streaming, and high-volume analytics.
• Lead incident response and remediation strategies.
• Mentor engineers and drive cross-functional modernization initiatives.

Skills

Python

PySpark

SQL

Databricks

Lakehouse

ETL pipelines

Data modeling

Airflow

Terraform

Unity Catalog

Tools

Databricks Workflows

Job description

MGM Resorts International in Las Vegas is seeking a Staff Commercial Data Engineer to architect marketing and revenue data platforms, driving reliable, governed Lakehouse solutions and high-scale analytics.

You will mentor teams and partner with Data Science, Analytics, IT and commercial leadership to own domain-wide data models, metrics, and certified datasets enabling informed business decisions across Gaming, Hospitality, Loyalty and Marketing.