Staff AI & Data Engineer on Databricks — Remote

Eliassen Group; Lansing (MI); Remote; USD 110,000 - 124,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, Vision benefits

401k with company matching

Life insurance

Job summary

Eliassen Group is seeking a Staff AI & Data Engineer to design and implement enterprise-grade data and AI solutions on Databricks. This hands-on contract role focuses on strengthening the Databricks platform, onboarding new data sources, building reusable ingestion and transformation frameworks, and delivering trusted Gold-layer data products.

You will work across pipelines, modeling, data quality, governance, semantic layers, and AI agents, with W2 benefits and a market-rate hourly pay.

Qualifications

• Advanced hands-on experience with Databricks, Spark, Delta Lake, and SQL.
• Strong Python and SQL development skills.
• Experience building scalable batch and/or streaming data pipelines.
• Deep understanding of Bronze/Silver/Gold medallion architectures.
• Experience with Unity Catalog and governed data environments.
• Familiarity with Git-based development, CI/CD, and automated testing.
• Experience building AI/GenAI solutions against enterprise data.

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 data quality, lineage, and governance.
• Develop AI-enabled data products and agent-ready capabilities.
• Support CI/CD deployments with Databricks Asset Bundles.

Skills

Databricks

Apache Spark

Delta Lake

SQL

Python

AWS (EMR & Bedrock)

Data pipelines

Data quality & governance

CI/CD & Git

GenAI integration

Tools

Lakeflow

Unity Catalog

MCP

Git

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Eliassen Group is seeking a Staff AI & Data Engineer to design and implement enterprise-grade data and AI solutions on Databricks. This hands-on contract role focuses on strengthening the Databricks platform, onboarding new data sources, building reusable ingestion and transformation frameworks, and delivering trusted Gold-layer data products.

You will work across pipelines, modeling, data quality, governance, semantic layers, and AI agents, with W2 benefits and a market-rate hourly pay.