Job Title: Databricks Data Engineering Lead
Location: Albany,New York
Duration: 8 Months + Extension
Bill Rate: $87/hour (C2C)
Job Type: W-2, 1099, C2C
Client: To Be Discussed Later
Work Authorization: US Citizen, Green Card, OPT-EAD, CPT, H-1B, H4-EAD, Other
We are looking for an experienced Databricks Data Engineering Lead with 8+ years of overall data engineering experience and strong hands-on expertise in building scalable data solutions using Databricks, Python, PySpark, Delta Lake, and Databricks Genie.
The candidate will be responsible for leading the design and development of modern data engineering solutions, providing technical direction to the engineering team, and ensuring scalable, secure, high-performing implementations. Experience working with Databricks on AWS is highly desirable.
Key Responsibilities
•Lead the design, development, and implementation of enterprise-scale data engineering solutions on Databricks.
•Design and develop scalable ETL/ELT pipelines using Databricks, Python, and PySpark.
•Provide hands-on technical leadership for Databricks Genie implementations and use cases.
•Design and optimize data architectures leveraging Delta Lake and Lakehouse architectural patterns.
•Build reusable frameworks and engineering components for data ingestion, transformation, validation, and processing.
•Develop and optimize complex PySpark workloads for performance, reliability, and scalability.
•Implement data quality, governance, security, monitoring, and operational controls across data pipelines.
•Provide technical leadership through architecture reviews, design reviews, code reviews, troubleshooting, and engineering best practices.
•Mentor data engineers and provide technical guidance during development and implementation.
•Work closely with architects, business analysts, data teams, and application teams to translate requirements into technical solutions.
•Support production deployments, performance tuning, incident resolution, and continuous improvement.
•Contribute to technical documentation, solution design, deployment strategy, and engineering standards.
Mandatory Technical Skills
•8+ years of overall experience in Data Engineering / Data Platforms.
•Strong hands-on experience with Databricks.
•Strong practical experience with Databricks Genie.
•Advanced programming experience in Python.
•Strong development and optimization experience using PySpark.
•Strong understanding and implementation experience with Delta Lake.
•Experience designing and implementing Lakehouse-based data platforms.
•Strong knowledge of SQL and data modelling concepts.
•Experience developing enterprise-grade batch and/or streaming data pipelines.
•Strong understanding of data quality, observability, performance tuning, and production support.
•Experience leading technical teams and driving engineering standards and best practices.
Desired / Preferred Skills
•Hands-on experience implementing Databricks workloads on AWS.
•Experience with AWS data services such as Amazon S3, AWS IAM, AWS Glue, Amazon Redshift, AWS Lambda, and Amazon CloudWatch.
•Knowledge of CI/CD and DevOps practices for data engineering solutions.
•Exposure to Databricks governance and security capabilities.
•Experience working on large-scale data modernization or cloud migration programs.
•Experience working directly with business and customer stakeholders.
