IT Data Engineer

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Dow has an exciting opportunity for a Data Engineer located in Midland, MI or Houston, TX. This role will make significant technical contributions to critical data initiatives within our team  will be responsible for driving the technical implementation and contributing to the design of scalable, Gold-layer data products on the Azure Databricks Lakehouse Platform.

This role focuses on solving complex technical challenges, optimization, architecture contribution, and reliability, ensuring our datasets are performant and ready to power advanced use cases, including:

• Machine Learning (ML) Pipelines
• Real-Time Data Consumption
• Generative and Agentic AI Systems
• Core Enterprise Reporting and BI
• Data-driven Applications

• Technical Design Contribution:
  Collaborate with senior data engineers to translate complex business requirements and ambiguous problem statements into clear, robust, and scalable technical designs and data models (e.g., dimensional modeling, star schemas), and independently drive the implementation of these designs.
• Performance Optimization:
  Design, build, and deploy high-volume data transformation logic using highly optimized PySpark. You will apply advanced techniques to tune Spark jobs and diagnose performance bottlenecks to ensure maximum efficiency and minimal cloud compute cost.
• Architecture & Deployment:
  Contribute significantly to the design and improvement of CI/CD pipelines in Azure Dev Ops/Git, ensuring reliable, automated, and secure deployment of data solutions across environments.
• Diverse Data Integration:
  Deeply understand and connect to various source systems, demonstrating proficiency in managing data persistence and query performance across diverse technologies like SQL Server, Neo4j, and Cosmos
  
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• Quality & Governance:
  Proactively implement and maintain advanced data quality frameworks (e.g., Delta Live Tables, Great Expectations) and monitoring solutions to ensure data reliability for mission-critical applications.
• Collaboration & Mentorship:
  Serve as a go‑to technical resource for peers, conducting technical code reviews and informally mentoring Associate Data Engineers on PySpark and Databricks best practices.

A successful candidate will possess the experience and technical depth required to independently implement and optimize complex data solutions:

• Core Technical Expertise (2-5 Years Demonstrated Experience)
• PySpark and Distributed Processing:
  Proven ability to write highly optimized, production-grade PySpark/Spark code. Experience identifying and resolving performance bottlenecks in a distributed computing environment.
• Advanced Data Modeling:
  Practical experience designing and implementing analytical data models (e.g., dimensional…