Staff AI & Data Engineer, Databricks — Remote

Eliassen Group; Santa Fe (NM); Remote; USD 110,000 - 124,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision benefits

401k with match

Life insurance

Job summary

Eliassen Group is seeking a Staff AI & Data Engineer to design and build enterprise-grade data and AI solutions on Databricks. This remote, contract role focuses on strengthening the Databricks platform, onboarding data sources, creating reusable ingestion frameworks, and delivering trusted data products across domains.

Ideal candidates have advanced Databricks, Spark, Delta Lake, and SQL skills, plus Python, CI/CD, and AI/GenAI experience.

Qualifications

• Advanced hands-on experience with Databricks, Apache Spark, Delta Lake, and SQL.
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Responsibilities

• Design and build production-grade data pipelines on Databricks.
• Ingest data from enterprise applications, databases, APIs, SaaS platforms, files, and other source systems.
• Build Bronze, Silver, Gold medallion architectures and implement CDC patterns.
• Standardize types, codes, units, keys, and business definitions across source systems.
• Implement data quality, lineage, monitoring, and governance.

Skills

Databricks

Apache Spark

Delta Lake

SQL

Python

Data pipelines

CI/CD

Git

Troubleshooting

AI/GenAI

Tools

Databricks

AWS EMR

Bedrock

Unity Catalog

Lakeflow

Job description

Eliassen Group is seeking a Staff AI & Data Engineer to design and build enterprise-grade data and AI solutions on Databricks. This remote, contract role focuses on strengthening the Databricks platform, onboarding data sources, creating reusable ingestion frameworks, and delivering trusted data products across domains.

Ideal candidates have advanced Databricks, Spark, Delta Lake, and SQL skills, plus Python, CI/CD, and AI/GenAI experience.