PySpark/Databricks Developer; Junior to Intermediate
Listed on 2026-10-05
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Software Development
Data Engineering, Python, SQL Developer
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About the RoleWe're looking for a developer to help build and maintain data pipelines on Databricks for a financial services / wealth management data platform. The platform ingests data from multiple source systems, transforms it through a medallion architecture (bronze silver gold) using
PySpark, and publishes curated data to downstream consumers via file exports and Kafka. You'll work alongside a senior engineer, writing transform code, fixing pipeline issues, and helping keep the environment healthy across dev/qa/uat.
This is a good fit for someone with solid Python fundamentals and some Spark/SQL exposure who wants to grow into a data engineering specialist. You won't be expected to know Databricks internals on day one - you will be expected to learn fast, ask good questions, and write clean,
What You'll Work On- Writing and maintaining
PySpark transforms(hand-written, not a generic framework) for silver and gold layer tables - things like customer, account, and transaction data models. - Working with Lakeflow Declarative Pipelines(Databricks' current pipeline framework - successor to DLT) andAuto CDC / SCD Type 2patterns for change-data-capture merges.
- Querying and validating data in Unity Catalog across environments (dev/qa/uat) using SQL warehouses.
- Debugging failed pipeline runs: reading pipeline event logs, tracing bad records, fixing schema drift or data quality issues.
- Maintaining reference/lookup tables and small utility scripts (Power Shell/Python) used to operate the platform.
- Writing and updating unit/integration tests for transform logic.
- Participating in code review, using Git feature branches and merge requests (Git Lab).
- Keeping documentation current when you change how something works.
- Python- comfortable writing clean, readable code; understands functions, modules, basic OOP.
- Some exposure to Apache Spark / PySpark, or strong SQL skills plus a willingness to learn Spark quickly.
- Working knowledge ofSQL(joins, aggregations, window functions).
- Basic Git workflow: branches, commits, pull/merge requests.
- Comfortable reading other people's code and stack traces, and debugging methodically (not guess-and-check).
- Direct experience with Databricks(notebooks, jobs, clusters, or SQL warehouses).
- Familiarity with Delta Lake, medallion architecture (bronze/silver/gold), or CDC/SCD concepts.
- Exposure to Azure(this environment runs on Azure Databricks with Azure AD service principal auth).
- Experience with Kafkaor other streaming/event systems.
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines (this project uses Git Lab CI).
- Prior work in financial servicesor a regulated data environment.
- Can independently pick up a small transform bug or enhancement ticket, make the change, test it, and open a merge request.
- Comfortable running existing operational scripts to check pipeline status, query tables, and diagnose failures without hand-holding.
- Starting to take ownership of the Databricks environments and help write new transforms
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