Senior Data Platform Engineer - Databricks Lakehouse

Molina Healthcare; United States; On-site; USD 80,000 - 172,000; Full time

Job summary

Molina Healthcare is seeking a Sr Big Data Engineer to drive enterprise data platform modernization and end-to-end solution delivery. The role focuses on Databricks Lakehouse, cloud-native architectures, and secure, scalable data solutions for advanced analytics and AI/ML.

The candidate will partner with EIM, business stakeholders, and technology leaders, delivering architecture-and-implementation through governance and mentoring across the organization.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Data Science, or a related field.

Responsibilities

• Define and establish enterprise architecture patterns, standards, frameworks, and best practices for scalable data and analytics solutions.
• Design, architect, and implement modern data platforms with a focus on performance, scalability, security, reliability, and maintainability.
• Lead the adoption and enablement of Databricks Lakehouse capabilities, including Data Engineering, Data Governance, Analytics, and AI/ML workloads.
• Evaluate emerging technologies, tools, and frameworks to support enterprise business and technology objectives.
• Collaborate with business leaders, executives, data teams, and engineering organizations to translate strategic goals into technology solutions.
• Provide hands-on architectural leadership throughout the solution lifecycle, from strategy and design through implementation and operationalization.
• Conduct architecture and design reviews to ensure alignment with enterprise standards and best practices.
• Develop automation frameworks and engineering solutions to improve Databricks platform reliability, operational efficiency, and developer productivity.
• Partner with data ingestion, curation, and consumption teams to optimize data processing, platform performance, and cloud costs.
• Drive data governance, security, compliance, and data quality initiatives across the enterprise data ecosystem.
• Mentor engineering teams and promote cloud-native, platform engineering, and modern data architecture best practices.

Skills

Databricks

Lakehouse

Python

PySpark

SQL

Apache Spark

Delta Lake

CI/CD

Infrastructure as Code

FHIR/HL7/X12

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Azure

AWS

Google Cloud Platform

Databricks

Job description

Molina Healthcare is seeking a Sr Big Data Engineer to drive enterprise data platform modernization and end-to-end solution delivery. The role focuses on Databricks Lakehouse, cloud-native architectures, and secure, scalable data solutions for advanced analytics and AI/ML.

The candidate will partner with EIM, business stakeholders, and technology leaders, delivering architecture-and-implementation through governance and mentoring across the organization.