Senior Data Platform Engineer: AI-Ready & Azure

Builders; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive Salary

Bonus Structure

Medical, Dental, Vision Insurance

401K with Company Match

PTO

Job summary

Builders is seeking a Senior Database & Data Platform Engineer in Atlanta to lead design, administration, and modernization of our enterprise data platforms, spanning SQL Server, Azure data services, Databricks Lakehouse, and AI tooling.

You will partner with security, legal, and business teams to ensure governance, reliability, and compliant data practices while enabling analytics and AI initiatives across the organization.

Qualifications

• Ten+ years supporting enterprise data platforms.
• 5+ years hands-on Microsoft SQL Server administration/engineering.
• Experience designing and modernizing cloud data platforms (Azure/Azure Databricks).
• Experience guiding AI adoption and governance.
• Knowledge of data governance tools (Purview or equivalent).
• SQL scripting proficiency and automation (PowerShell/Python).

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain enterprise data platform architecture for operational, analytics, and AI workloads.
• Develop modernization roadmaps for legacy data platforms while ensuring business continuity.
• Establish standards for data design, performance, security, availability, governance, and documentation.
• Evaluate emerging data and AI technologies and recommend future-state capabilities.
• Administer, optimize, and secure Microsoft SQL Server environments with backups, patching, and DR.
• Lead disaster recovery testing, incident response, and remediation.
• Manage platform reliability, observability, capacity, and cloud cost optimization.
• Provide technical ownership for Databricks Lakehouse including Unity Catalog and governance.
• Support analytics, ML, and AI initiatives through governed enterprise data.
• Define data ingestion, transformation, ETL/ELT, and data movement standards.
• Oversee integrations across systems, cloud services, SQL platforms, and AI services.
• Plan and execute data migrations with validation, cutover, and rollback.

Skills

SQL scripting

Azure data services

Data architecture

Cloud data platforms

Security governance

Automation (PowerShell/Python)

Leadership & mentoring

Education

Bachelor’s degree in IT/CS/IS/data management

Tools

Azure Databricks

Unity Catalog

Delta Lake

Azure Data Factory

Azure Synapse Analytics

Power BI

Databricks Lakehouse

Job description

Builders is seeking a Senior Database & Data Platform Engineer in Atlanta to lead design, administration, and modernization of our enterprise data platforms, spanning SQL Server, Azure data services, Databricks Lakehouse, and AI tooling.

You will partner with security, legal, and business teams to ensure governance, reliability, and compliant data practices while enabling analytics and AI initiatives across the organization.