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Senior Databricks Engineer - Chubb Fire & Security
Software Engineer
Senior Databricks Engineer responsible for designing scalable lakehouse solutions, building Delta Live Tables pipelines, and optimizing Spark workloads on the Databricks platform using Delta Lake and Unity Catalog.
About the role
Key Responsibilities
- Design and implement robust lakehouse architectures on Databricks, leveraging Delta Lake and Unity Catalog for data storage and governance.
- Develop, test, and maintain Delta Live Tables pipelines to deliver reliable, declarative data transformation workflows.
- Apply performance‑tuning techniques such as Z‑ordering, liquid clustering, auto‑optimize, and strategic partitioning to maximize Spark job efficiency.
- Orchestrate end‑to‑end data workflows using Databricks Workflows, ensuring reliable scheduling, monitoring, and error handling.
- Collaborate with data scientists, analysts, and security teams to enforce fine‑grained access controls and maintain data lineage across the platform.
Requirements
- 5+ years of hands‑on experience with Databricks, Apache Spark, and Delta Lake in a production environment.
- Proven expertise in building and managing Delta Live Tables pipelines and using Unity Catalog for data governance.
- Strong knowledge of performance optimization techniques for Spark and Delta tables, including Z‑ordering and clustering.
- Experience with cloud platforms (AWS preferred) and infrastructure‑as‑code tools for provisioning Databricks workspaces.
- Excellent problem‑solving skills and ability to work cross‑functionally in an agile development setting.
Skills
databricksapache sparkaws