Senior Databricks Data Engineer — Analytics & Governance

MGM Resorts International; Las Vegas (NV); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Wellness incentives

Discounts on hotel/food/retail and on‑

Free meals

Free parking

Health & Income Protection

Professional development

Job summary

MGM Resorts International is seeking a Senior Commercial Data Engineer to lead the design, build, and maintenance of scalable data products powering analytics and decision making across the enterprise.

You will own data enablement, observability, metric governance, and performance optimization in Databricks, ensuring trusted datasets and cost-efficiency. Strong SQL, Python, and data modeling skills are essential.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in data engineering, analytics engineering, or data platform roles.
• 3+ years building production workloads in Databricks or similar Spark environments.
• Strong expertise in Databricks, Delta Lake, Lakehouse architecture, and Unity Catalog.

Responsibilities

• Lead cross-functional efforts to define and maintain certified business definitions, KPIs, metrics, and logic across assigned data domains.
• Design, document, and maintain enterprise-ready curated tables and high-performance data models in Databricks.
• Optimize data pipelines, partitioning, file compaction, compute utilization, and query costs.
• Enforce Unity Catalog governance standards, including data ownership and access management workflows.
• Establish and monitor data reliability standards, including freshness SLAs and schema drift detection.
• Own incident response and root-cause analysis for data failures and performance issues.
• Train teams on certified datasets, governance practices, and trusted data usage.

Skills

Data engineering

Analytics engineering

Python

SQL

Data governance

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/IT

Master’s degree preferred

Tools

Databricks

Delta Lake

Lakehouse

Unity Catalog

Airflow

Terraform

Job description

MGM Resorts International is seeking a Senior Commercial Data Engineer to lead the design, build, and maintenance of scalable data products powering analytics and decision making across the enterprise.

You will own data enablement, observability, metric governance, and performance optimization in Databricks, ensuring trusted datasets and cost-efficiency. Strong SQL, Python, and data modeling skills are essential.