Staff AI & Data Engineer, Databricks (Remote)

Eliassen Group; Trenton (NJ); Remote; USD 110,000 - 124,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401k with company matching

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 new data sources, and creating scalable ingestion and transformation frameworks for Gold‑layer data products.

The ideal candidate will have advanced Databricks, Spark, Delta Lake, and Python skills, work across data pipelines, governance, and AI agent readiness, and be comfortable with

Qualifications

• Advanced hands-on experience with Databricks, Apache Spark, Delta Lake, and SQL.
• Hands-on experience with AWS services related to data analytics and AI, including EMR and Bedrock.
• Strong Python and SQL development skills.

Responsibilities

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

Skills

Databricks

Apache Spark

SQL

Python

Data pipelines

Data governance

Education

Databricks Data Engineer Professional

Tools

Databricks

Apache Spark

Delta Lake

SQL

Python

AWS EMR/Bedrock

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 new data sources, and creating scalable ingestion and transformation frameworks for Gold‑layer data products.

The ideal candidate will have advanced Databricks, Spark, Delta Lake, and Python skills, work across data pipelines, governance, and AI agent readiness, and be comfortable with