Staff AI & Data Engineer on Databricks — Remote

Eliassen Group; Jackson (MS); Remote; USD 110,000 - 124,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, Vision benefits

401k with company 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 in a remote, contract capacity. This role emphasizes scalable pipelines, architecture across Bronze/Silver/Gold, data governance, and AI-enabled data products.

Strong Databricks and Python/SQL skills are essential. W2 consultants receive comprehensive medical, dental, and vision benefits, 401k with match, and life insurance; rate is $80–$90/hr.

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.
• Experience building scalable batch and/or streaming data pipelines.
• Deep understanding of Bronze/Silver/Gold medallion architectures.

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 and maintain Bronze, Silver, and Gold medallion architectures.
• Implement incremental processing and change data capture patterns where appropriate.
• Standardize types, codes, units, keys, and business definitions across source systems.
• Implement deduplication, historical tracking, schema evolution, and data lineage.
• Optimize pipelines for reliability, performance, scalability, and cost.
• Build a configuration-driven source onboarding framework and Lakeflow pipeline templates.
• Automate source registration, deployment, monitoring, lineage, and operational controls.
• Implement data quality expectations, anomaly detection, monitoring, and quarantine processes.
• Implement job and pipeline monitoring, alerting, audit logging, and operational dashboards.
• Support automated deployment and promotion using Databricks Asset Bundles and CI/CD.
• Develop conformed dimensions and shared-key strategies across domains.
• Build integrated Gold-layer products and reusable data contracts.
• Build AI-ready Gold data products with ownership, lineage, definitions, and quality information.
• Develop semantic context, business glossary, ontology, and certified KPIs in Unity Catalog.
• Build governed Unity Catalog functions and agent-ready tools and endpoints.
• Implement tracing, evaluation, testing, monitoring, and governance for AI and agent workflows.
• Support development of AI agents that use trusted enterprise data.

Skills

Databricks

Apache Spark

SQL

Python

Data Pipelines

CI/CD

Data Quality

Data Governance

AI/GenAI

Unity Catalog

Tools

Databricks Lakeflow

Databricks Genie

MLflow

AWS EMR

Job description

Eliassen Group is seeking a Staff AI & Data Engineer to design and build enterprise-grade data and AI solutions on Databricks in a remote, contract capacity. This role emphasizes scalable pipelines, architecture across Bronze/Silver/Gold, data governance, and AI-enabled data products.

Strong Databricks and Python/SQL skills are essential. W2 consultants receive comprehensive medical, dental, and vision benefits, 401k with match, and life insurance; rate is $80–$90/hr.