About the Role
Pantheon is building a cloud-native, AI-ready Data Platform using the Databricks Lakehouse architecture. This role is crucial for designing and implementing new data pipelines to adapt to business and technology changes, establishing Pantheon as a data-centric organization. You will work with a modern Azure tech stack and contribute to a small, skilled team focused on delivering best-in-class solutions.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain scalable, secure, and high-performance data pipelines on Azure using Azure Databricks, Azure Data Factory, and Azure Functions.
- Develop and optimize batch and streaming data processing solutions using PySpark and SQL.
- Implement robust data transformation layers using dbt.
- Collaborate with business analysts, QA teams, and stakeholders to translate data requirements into technical solutions.
- Ensure data quality, reliability, and observability through automated testing, monitoring, logging, and alerting.
- Lead performance tuning, cost optimization, and capacity planning for Databricks and associated Azure services.
- Implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps.
- Enforce data governance, security, and compliance standards.
- Contribute to architectural decisions and provide technical leadership, mentoring junior engineers.
- Produce clear technical documentation and contribute to knowledge sharing.
- Enable ML/AI workloads on the Databricks data platform.
- Support Databricks AI capabilities.
- Collaborate with the AI Product Team to deliver use cases.
- Enable RAG pipelines / vector storage patterns to support AI products.
Requirements
- Significant commercial experience (typically 5+ years) in data engineering roles.
- Demonstrable experience designing and operating production-grade data platforms.
- Strong hands-on experience with Azure Databricks, including cluster configuration, job orchestration, and performance optimization.
- Proven experience building data pipelines with Databricks and Azure Data Factory, integrating with Azure-native services.
- Advanced experience with Python for data engineering, including PySpark for distributed data processing.
- Strong SQL expertise, with experience designing and optimizing complex analytical queries and data models.
- Practical experience using dbt in a production environment.
- Experience implementing CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps or equivalent tooling.
- Data as a Product mindset.
- Experience with AI / ML / GenAI Enablement.
- Experience in Agile SW development environment.
- Strong problem-solving ability and a pragmatic, engineering-led mindset.
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to explain complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Leadership and mentoring capability.
Skills
- Azure Databricks (Spark, Delta Lake, performance tuning)
- Python and PySpark
- SQL (advanced querying, optimisation, and data modelling)
- Azure Data Factory
- dbt
- Azure DevOps (Git, CI/CD pipelines, release management)
- Lakehouse architecture (Databricks Unity Catalog, Delta Lake optimization techniques)
- Data modelling (star schemas, data vault, or lakehouse-aligned approaches)
- Data quality, testing frameworks, and monitoring/observability
- Development with coding agents (e.g., Anthropic Claude Code, OpenAI Codex etc)
Location
- Remote
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior
About the Company
- Pantheon has been at the forefront of private markets investing for more than 40 years, earning a reputation for an innovative approach to investing in secondaries, co-investments, and primary fund investments, as well as capital formation across commingled funds, evergreen vehicles and customized solutions.
- Our specialist investment capabilities span multiple strategies across private equity, infrastructure and real assets, and private credit.
- Through our collaborative and committed culture, we find new ways to solve complex problems together and deliver innovative investment opportunities across private markets.
- Pantheon currently manages approximately $82.3 billion in AUM across all its strategies, serving more than 750 institutional and 638 private wealth clients worldwide.
Equal Opportunity
- Pantheon is an Equal Opportunities employer, we are committed to building a diverse and inclusive workforce so if you're excited about this role but your past experience doesn't perfectly align we'd still encourage you to apply.
