Database Engineer - Databricks

Mutual of Omaha Mortgage is seeking a Database Engineer to own the ongoing operation, reliability, and evolution of our Databricks Lakehouse platform following the completion of a major data migration initiative.

This is a hands-on engineering role focused on keeping our Databricks-based ingestion pipelines, transformation layers, and warehouse healthy, performant, cost-efficient, and compliant in a regulated lending environment.

You'll work on a small, senior platform team where you'll have direct ownership of the Databricks environment with high visibility and autonomy. This is a role for someone energized by being a primary owner rather than one specialist among many.

• Own the day-to-day operation and reliability of Databricks jobs and pipelines, compute and cluster configuration, Delta Lake tables, and Databricks SQL warehouses.
• Develop and optimize Spark transformations in Databricks notebooks across bronze/silver/gold (medallion) layers, including incremental loads via Auto Loader and Structured Streaming where applicable.
• Maintain and extend orchestration across Databricks Workflows and Apache Airflow, ensuring freshness and reliability SLAs are met.
• Administer governance and access through Unity Catalog (catalogs, schemas, grants, lineage) consistent with PII containment in a regulated lending environment.
• Manage and tune Microsoft SQL Server (MSSQL) source and target databases for downstream consumer with a focus on query optimization, indexing, schema management, and performance diagnostics.
• Build monitors and control DBU consumption and cluster cost by implementing alerting and right-sizing to keep platform spend predictable.
• Diagnose and resolve pipeline failures, data quality issues, schema drift, and source authentication/connectivity problems end-to-end.
• Share responsibility for platform reliability and operational coverage with a small team, maintaining runbooks and documentation so that no single person is a point of failure.
• Document pipeline architecture, runbooks, and operational procedures to support team-wide maintainability.

• 3+ years of hands-on data engineering experience in a production environment.
• Authoring and operating Databricks notebooks, Jobs, and Workflows
• Cluster and compute configuration, plus DBU cost awareness
• Databricks SQL / SQL Warehouses
Unity Catalog governance
• Databricks Certification
Strong Python, PySpark, SQL skills for building and debugging distributed data transformations.
• Production experience with Apache Airflow (authoring, scheduling, and debugging DAGs).
• Experience integrating data from SaaS/CRM source systems (e.g., Salesforce) via Bulk or streaming APIs.
Comfort operating, monitoring, and troubleshooting pipelines in a live environment, not just building them.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to articulate and write clear technical documentation.

The annual salary for this position is $130,000–$150,000. This position offers eligibility for incentive compensation.

Mutual of Omaha Mortgage is an Equal Opportunity Employer, and we encourage diverse, talented, qualified applicants to apply. We offer an extensive compensation package. Benefits include:

• Vacation — Vacation hours accrue on a per pay period basis. Balance maximums are based on years of service.
• Paid Sick Time — 40 hours of paid sick time after 90 days of employment. State sick time requirements will be added as needed.
• 9 Paid Holidays + 1 Cultural Celebration Day (Floating Holiday)
• Multiple PPO Medical Plans, as well as HDHP eligible plan.
• Vision Coverage
• Company Paid Life Insurance
• 401K with a generous employer match
• Additional Benefits including – Optional Life, FSA, Pet Insurance etc.