About the Role
Allied Consultants, Inc is seeking an experienced Databricks Engineer to play a key role within a high-impact technical services team. This role involves designing, developing, and optimizing scalable data solutions on Databricks.
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and optimize scalable data solutions on Databricks, leveraging PySpark or Scala for large-scale data processing.
- Build and maintain ingestion pipelines, Declarative Pipelines (DLT), and Medallion Architecture (Bronze, Silver, Gold) to support enterprise analytics and reporting.
- Develop robust data models and implement data quality, validation, and governance frameworks.
- Create dynamic dashboards, Databricks Apps, and analytical solutions to deliver actionable business insights.
- Optimize workloads, monitoring, and operational processes to ensure scalability, security, and cost efficiency.
- Understands business objectives and problems, identifies alternative solutions, performs studies and cost/benefit analysis of alternatives.
- Analyzes user requirements, procedures, and problems to automate processing or to improve existing computer system.
- Confers with personnel of organizational units involved to analyze current operational procedures, identify problems, and learn specific input and output requirements.
- Writes detailed description of user needs, program functions, and steps required to develop or modify computer program.
- Reviews computer system capabilities, specifications, and scheduling limitations to determine if requested program or program change is possible within existing system.
Requirements
- 8 or more years of experience, relies on experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals, independently performs a variety of complicated tasks, a wide degree of creativity and latitude is expected.
- 8 years of experience in IT, supporting the design, development, deployment, or delivery of technology solutions.
- 8 years of experience with Databricks, including building and optimizing ETL/ELT data pipelines using Apache Spark.
- 8 years of experience in data warehousing and dimensional data modeling (star/snowflake schemas).
- 8 years of experience implementing data governance, data quality, and data security practices.
- 8 years of experience implementing Lakeflow Declarative Pipelines (formerly Delta Live Tables/DLT) for building and managing production data pipelines.
- 8 years of experience with Delta Lake, medallion architecture (bronze/silver/gold layers), data lakehouse design, and creating and scheduling offline jobs using Lakeflow Jobs (formerly Databricks Workflows) or similar orchestration tools (e.g., Airflow).
- Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written, including presenting insights to technical and business stakeholders.
- 1 year of experience working in public sector or state government environments.
- 1 year of experience with CI/CD practices for data pipelines (DevOps, Git-based workflows).
Skills
- Databricks
- PySpark
- Scala
- SQL
- Python
- Apache Spark
- ETL/ELT
- Data Warehousing
- Dimensional Data Modeling
- Star Schemas
- Snowflake Schemas
- Data Governance
- Data Quality
- Data Security
- Lakeflow Declarative Pipelines (DLT)
- Delta Live Tables (DLT)
- Delta Lake
- Medallion Architecture
- Data Lakehouse Design
- Lakeflow Jobs (Databricks Workflows)
- Databricks Workflows
- Airflow
- Databricks SQL dashboards
- Databricks Apps
- CI/CD
- DevOps
- Git-based workflows
Location
- Austin
Work Type
- Hybrid
- Remote
- Onsite
Experience Level
- 8+ years
Education Level
- Databricks certification (e.g., Databricks Certified Data Engineer Associate/Professional)
Benefits
- Medical insurance (with employer cost sharing)
- Life insurance
- A 401(K) plan with company match
- Flexible spending through a cafeteria plan
About the Company
- Allied Consultants, Inc is a proudly Austin based firm with over 34 years of experience delivering top-tier technical and business professionals within Texas State Agencies.
Equal Opportunity
- Allied Consultants is a proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.
