Sr Data Commercial Engineer

MGM Resorts International; Nevada; Sur place; USD 120 000 - 180 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Wellness incentives

Discounts on hotel, dining and retail

Free meals

Free parking

Health & Income Protection

Professional development

Résumé du poste

MGM Resorts International seeks a Senior Commercial Data Engineer to design, build, and maintain scalable data products powering analytics and decision-making. You will own curated data enablement, observability, and governance within Databricks, ensuring trusted, high-performing datasets across the enterprise.

The role requires leadership in defining KPIs, and building production-grade pipelines, while optimizing performance and costs.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, IT, or related field; Master’s preferred.
• 5+ years in data engineering or analytics engineering; 3+ years with Databricks or Spark.
• Expertise in Databricks, Delta Lake, Lakehouse, and Unity Catalog governance and data certification.
• Strong Python, PySpark, and SQL skills; experience with analytical SQL and distributed processing.
• Experience with data quality, observability, SLAs, validation, lineage, and self-healing pipelines.
• Knowledge of data modeling, partitioning, file compaction, and performance tuning for large-scale environments.
• Ability to translate requirements to business data solutions; familiarity with Terraform and orchestration tools like Airflow or Databricks Workflows; hospitality/gaming analytics preferred.

Responsabilités

• Lead cross-functional efforts to define and maintain certified business definitions, KPIs, and metrics across data domains.
• Design and maintain enterprise-grade curated tables and high-performance data models in Databricks.
• Optimize data pipelines for partitioning, file compaction, compute use, and costs to boost performance and stability.
• Enforce Unity Catalog governance, including ownership, permissions, certification, and access workflows.
• Establish data reliability standards with freshness SLAs, completeness thresholds, and drift detection.
• Own incident response, pipeline triage, and root-cause analysis for data failures and anomalies.
• Coach teams on certified datasets and governance practices; promote trusted data usage.

Connaissances

Databricks

Delta Lake

Unity Catalog

PySpark

Python

SQL

Data quality

Observability

Terraform

Airflow

Formation

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field

Master’s degree preferred

Outils

Databricks

Airflow

Terraform

Description du poste

US, Nevada

The SHOW comes alive at MGM Resorts International

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to work in a place full of excitement, diversity, and entertainment? Are you enthusiastic about being a team player in one of the most fascinating industries in the world? At MGM Resorts, we seek individuals like YOU to create unique and show-stopping experiences for our guests.

THE JOB:

The Senior Commercial Data Engineer is a technical leader responsible for designing, building, and maintaining high-quality, scalable, and reliable data products that power analytics, reporting, and advanced decision-making across the enterprise. This role owns curated data enablement, data observability, metric governance, and performance optimization within Databricks, ensuring the business has consistent, trusted, and high-performing datasets.

THE DAY-TO-DAY:

• 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 aligned to business and analytical needs.
• Optimize data pipelines, partitioning, file compaction, compute utilization, and query costs to improve performance, scalability, and production stability.
• Enforce Unity Catalog governance standards, including data ownership, permissions, certification, and access management workflows.
• Establish and monitor data reliability standards, including freshness SLAs, completeness thresholds, schema drift detection, and automated anomaly monitoring.
• Own incident response, pipeline triage, and root-cause analysis for data failures, performance issues, and metric discrepancies.
• Serve as the primary data reliability owner, driving continuous improvement while training teams on certified datasets, governance practices, and trusted data usage.

THE IDEAL CANDIDATE:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field required; Master’s degree preferred.
• 5+ years of experience in data engineering, analytics engineering, or data platform roles, including 3+ years building production workloads in Databricks or similar Spark environments.
• Strong expertise in Databricks, Delta Lake, Lakehouse architecture, and Unity Catalog, including governance, permissions, and data certification standards.
• Advanced programming skills in Python, PySpark, and SQL, with experience in analytical SQL, distributed data processing, production-grade pipelines, and automation.
• Proven experience with data quality, observability, monitoring, anomaly detection, SLAs, validation, lineage, and self-healing pipeline frameworks.
• Strong knowledge of data modeling, partitioning, file compaction, query/performance tuning, compute optimization, and workload isolation for large-scale production environments.
• Ability to translate technical requirements into business-aligned data solutions, standardize best practices, mentor teams, and preferably work with Terraform and orchestration tools such as Airflow or Databricks Workflows; domain experience in gaming/hospitality, loyalty/customer engagement, or marketing/commercial analytics is preferred.

THE PERKS & BENEFITS:

• Wellness incentive programs to help you stay healthy physically and mentally
• Access to company hotel, food and beverage, retail, and entertainment discounts as well as discounts with company partners on things like travel, electronics, online shopping, and more
• Free meals in our employee dining room
• Free parking
• Health & Income Protection benefits (for eligible employees)
• Professional and personal development through programs and networking opportunities as well as volunteer opportunities in the community

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