Senior Associate Data Engineering; Azure​/Databricks) Hybrid

Company description

Publicis Sapient is a digital transformation partner helping established organizations get to their future, digitally enabled state, both in the way they work and the way they serve their customers. We help unlock value through a start-up mindset and modern methods, fusing strategy, consulting, and customer experience with agile engineering and problem-solving creativity. United by our core values and our purpose of helping people thrive in the brave pursuit of next, our 20,000+ people in 53 offices around the world combine experience across technology, data sciences, consulting, and customer obsession to accelerate our clients’ businesses through designing the products and services their customers truly value.

Publicis Sapient is looking for a Senior Associate Data Engineer to be part of our team of top-notch technologists. You will lead and deliver technical solutions for large-scale digital transformation projects. Working with the latest data and AI engineering technologies in the industry, you will be instrumental in helping our clients evolve for a more digital and AI-enabled future.

• Combine your technical expertise and problem-solving passion to work closely with clients, turning complex ideas into end-to-end data solutions that transform our clients’ business.
• Translate client requirements into system design and develop solutions that deliver measurable business value.
• Lead, design, develop and deliver large-scale data systems, data processing, data transformation, and data platform modernization initiatives.
• Build and optimize batch and streaming data pipelines across modern cloud data platforms and distributed processing frameworks.
• Support AI-enabled engineering use cases by designing high-quality data foundations, retrieval patterns, context engineering approaches, and scalable data services that power agentic and machine learning solutions.
• Automate data platform operations and manage post-production systems, observability, quality, reliability, and operational processes, including telemetry pipelines that capture prompt, response, trace, latency, token, and cost data for AI-enabled services in a query able form.
• Conduct technical feasibility assessments and provide project estimates for the design and development of solutions.
• Mentor, support, and grow junior team members while contributing hands-on to delivery.

• Demonstrable experience implementing end-to-end data pipelines and production-grade data platforms.
• Hands-on experience with at least one leading public cloud data platform:
  Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud Platform;
• Hands-on experience with Azure Cloud Services, including Azure Data Lake Storage (ADLS), Azure Functions, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), and Azure Databricks.
• Experience with Databricks as a data engineering platform is strongly preferred, including working with notebooks, jobs, Delta Lake, or similar lakehouse patterns.
• Strong Python proficiency and practical experience using Python-based tooling for data engineering, automation, platform development, or AI engineering workflows.
• In-depth knowledge of Scala, Apache Spark, PySpark, Python, Java, and shell scripting.
• Implementation experience with column-oriented database technologies such as Big Query, Redshift, Vertica, or similar platforms;
  No
  
  SQL database technologies such as DynamoDB, Bigtable, Cosmos DB, or similar; and traditional database systems such as SQL Server, Oracle, or MySQL.
• Experience implementing data pipelines for both streaming and batch integrations using tools and frameworks such as Glue ETL, Lambda, Google Cloud Dataflow, Azure Data Factory, Spark, Spark…