Senior Data Engineer - Databricks & Cloud ETL

Gswell; Washington, Northern (District of Columbia, KY); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision

401K match

Paid Time Off

Tuition reimbursement

Flexible work schedule

On-site gym

Childcare option

Job summary

Groundswell is seeking a senior data engineer to design and implement scalable Databricks solutions, ETL/ELT pipelines, and robust database environments (MariaDB, SQL Server). You will translate business needs into secure, scalable data architectures and collaborate with stakeholders and cross-functional teams.

Candidates should have 5+ years in data engineering or database work, deep SQL, Python/Java/Scala, and hands-on Databricks experience; U.S.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics, or a related technical field.
• 5+ years of experience in data engineering, database administration, or database development.
• Demonstrated hands-on Databricks experience.
• Experience administering SQL Server and/or MariaDB enterprise databases.
• Advanced SQL skills, including developing and optimizing queries, stored procedures, functions, triggers, tables, and views.
• Proficiency in Python, Java, or Scala.
• Experience developing ETL/ELT pipelines using tools such as Apache Airflow, AWS Glue, or similar technologies.
• Experience with database performance tuning, backup and restoration, disaster recovery, security, and access management.
• Strong stakeholder engagement, communication, collaboration, and problem-solving skills.
• U.S. citizenship and the ability to obtain and maintain a federal Public Trust per contract requirements.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement scalable Databricks solutions and ETL/ELT pipelines.
• Apply Databricks development standards and data engineering best practices.
• Administer and monitor enterprise MariaDB and SQL Server environments.
• Design databases, schemas, tables, views, stored procedures, functions, and triggers.
• Perform database configuration, backup, restoration, performance tuning, and disaster recovery.
• Optimize SQL queries, indexes, database objects, pipelines, and server performance.
• Configure and support availability groups, mirroring, clusters, encryption, and reporting servers.
• Translate business and technical requirements into secure, scalable data solutions.
• Deliver technical demonstrations and training and support proposal efforts.

Skills

Databricks development

SQL & data modeling

Python/Java/Scala

ETL/ELT pipelines

Stakeholder engagement

Leadership / technical direction

Problem solving

Security & access management

Public Trust readiness

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/CE/Math/Stats

Tools

Apache Airflow

AWS Glue

SQL Server

MariaDB

AWS/Azure cloud services

Job description

Groundswell is seeking a senior data engineer to design and implement scalable Databricks solutions, ETL/ELT pipelines, and robust database environments (MariaDB, SQL Server). You will translate business needs into secure, scalable data architectures and collaborate with stakeholders and cross-functional teams.

Candidates should have 5+ years in data engineering or database work, deep SQL, Python/Java/Scala, and hands-on Databricks experience; U.S.