Senior Data Engineer

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Senior Data Engineer (P3)  ROLE SUMMARY: The Senior Data Engineer designs and builds the governed data foundations, pipelines, APIs and Databricks semantic layer that make enterprise data trustworthy, AI-ready and accessible to non-technical colleagues. This role combines hands-on Databricks and PySpark engineering with close partnership across Finance and IT to move the organization to a modern, agile target state data architecture.  RESPONSIBILITIES
- Contribute to the design of information infrastructure and data management processes that move the organization to a more agile, robust, AI-ready target state data architecture
- Build systems and pipelines that ingest, cleanse and normalize diverse internal and external datasets, and add structure to unstructured data for analytical and AI use
- Partner with colleagues and external professionals to determine requirements, anticipate future needs and identify opportunities to drive data development
- Develop a strong understanding of how data flows across CRM, Broker & Sales, Finance, HR, MDM, ODS, Data Lake and EDW
- Deliver data and API solutions, including natural-language and AI-assisted access to governed data, that enable non-technical staff to make data-driven decisions
- Develop POCs to validate solution proposals and influence platform architects, product managers and software engineers
- Design and develop data lake and API solutions for structured and unstructured data, and provide technical guidance to help colleagues migrate to modern platforms  AI DATA ENGINEERING
- Build AI-ready pipelines that curate and version data for retrieval, evaluation and agentic workflows, including document parsing, chunking, embeddings and vector search for RAG
- Develop API and MCP-based foundations that give AI agents governed access to enterprise data
- Implement data quality, lineage, observability and evaluation frameworks to measure the accuracy of AI-generated answers against trusted data
- Apply governance and access controls (row/column-level security, masking) so AI solutions respect data classification and privacy requirements
- Partner with data science and business teams to move AI prototypes into production-grade, monitored solutions  SEMANTIC LAYER (DATABRICKS)- Design, build and maintain a governed semantic layer in Unity Catalog, including curated views, certified metric definitions and centralized business logic
- Configure and tune Databricks Genie spaces (instructions, sample queries, entity matching, naming conventions) to enable accurate natural-language querying
- Establish semantic layer standards, documentation and versioning, and validate outputs against source-of-truth systems with Finance, HR and other business owners  REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Hands-on Databricks experience (Delta Lake, Unity Catalog, Spark SQL, PySpark, Workflows) with strong SQL and Python skills
- Demonstrated experience building a semantic layer in Databricks (Unity Catalog views, metric views and/or Genie configuration)- Experience building batch and streaming pipelines and lakehouse/medallion data models
- Experience developing REST APIs (FastAPI or Flask) with OAuth-based authentication and authorization
- Working knowledge of AI data engineering concepts: embeddings, vector search, RAG, LLM agents, context engineering and AI evaluation

- Experience with data governance, lineage, quality and security in an enterprise environment

- Experience with cloud platforms (Azure preferred) and CI/CD  PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

- Experience with Genie or similar text-to-SQL tools, including accuracy benchmarking

- Experience with MCP or agent frameworks for enterprise data access

This position does not provide visa sponsorship. Candidates must be authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship.  
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