Data Engineer (Databricks)

Job Description

The Data Engineer will be responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining scalable and reliable data pipelines on Databricks and cloud platforms. The role requires integrating diverse data sources, ensuring high-quality data processing, and supporting analytics, reporting, and machine learning workloads. The role involves collaborating closely with analytics, product, and infrastructure teams to enhance the company’s data platform while adhering to best practices for governance, monitoring, and reliability.

What will you do?

Develop and maintain ETL pipelines for centralized data storage systems (e.g. Delta Lake).

Integrate data from databases, APIs, log files, streaming platforms, and external providers

Develop data transformation routines to clean, normalize, and aggregate data

Apply data processing techniques to handle complex or inconsistent datasets

Contribute to frameworks and best practices for code development and deployment

Implement data governance in alignment with company standards

Partner with analytics and product leaders to design and operationalize pipelines

Collaborate with infrastructure leaders to advance cloud-based data platforms

Explore new tools and techniques leveraging Azure, Databricks, or related platforms

Monitor data pipelines to detect and resolve issues promptly

Develop monitoring tools, alerts, and automated error-handling mechanisms

Analyse business requirements and identify data extraction requirements

Attend requirement grooming and refinement sessions with users

Develop and maintain ETL pipelines for ingestion, transformation, validation, and loading

Optimise performance and batch scheduling

Develop dashboards, reports, scorecards, and data visualizations

Perform SIT, data validation, data profiling and confirm data accuracy

Validate completeness and consistency of ETL Loads

Support UAT and production implementation

Qualifications

The ideal candidate should possess:

3 or more years of experience in data engineering with scalable pipelines

Strong experience designing data solutions including data modelling and distributed computing architectures

Hands-on experience with data processing jobs using PySpark, Spark SQL, and Databricks notebooks/jobs

Experience orchestrating data pipelines with ADF, Airflow, or similar tools

Experience with both real-time and batch data processing

Experience building pipelines on Azure, with AWS experience beneficial

Proficiency in SQL including window functions and performance optimization

Understanding of DevOps tools, Git workflows, and CI/CD pipelines

Familiarity with Scrum methodology and experience working in Scrum teams

Ability to apply Scrum practices in a practical project context

Strong problem-solving and collaborative mindset

Experience with streaming technologies such as Apache Kafka, Apache Flink, or AWS Kinesis

Ability to design and implement real-time data processing pipelines

Databricks Certified Data Engineer Associate and Databricks Certified Data Engineer Professional are preferred

Additional Information

We are driven by our AEIOU beliefs—Adventure, Excellence, Integrity, Ownership, and Unity—and we seek individuals who embody these values in both their professional and personal lives. We are committed to our Impact: Valuing our clients, Growing our people, and Creating our future.

Together, we make the extraordinary happen.

Learn more about us at ncs.co and visit our LinkedIn career site.

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