Job Summary:
We are seeking a Mid-Level Data Engineer to join an Enterprise AI team focused on building scalable data solutions that support AI-enabled products, operational intelligence, and business decision-making. The role involves developing reliable data foundations, integrating enterprise data with AI-generated insights, and contributing reusable data capabilities across enterprise AI initiatives. This is a hands-on individual contributor position responsible for owning well-defined data engineering components from development through production while collaborating with senior engineers, architects, AI/ML engineers, data scientists, and product partners.
Key Responsibilities:
• Build, maintain, and enhance scalable batch and near-real-time data pipelines using Python, SQL, and Spark/PySpark.
• Integrate data from enterprise applications, operational systems, APIs, event streams, and AI inference outputs into reliable, analysis-ready datasets.
• Develop transformations that combine structured and semi-structured data across sources using consistent identifiers and timestamps, handling time zones, duplicate records, and late-arriving events.
• Create and maintain data models and curated datasets for business analytics, AI model development and evaluation, and AI-enabled application workflows.
• Partner with AI/ML engineers to deliver data interfaces for inference workflows and capture model outputs, confidence scores, and user feedback for analysis and continuous improvement.
• Implement data quality checks, reconciliation, pipeline monitoring, and alerting to ensure completeness, accuracy, freshness, and traceability.
• Troubleshoot pipeline failures and performance issues; implement reliable retries, backfills, and incremental processing while optimizing compute and storage costs.
• Collaborate with product managers, data scientists, analysts, and engineering partners to translate business requirements into practical data solutions.
• Follow data security, privacy, access-control, and retention requirements when handling enterprise data and AI-generated outputs.
• Write maintainable, tested code; participate in code reviews and CI/CD practices; document schemas, data lineage, dependencies, and operational runbooks.
Required Qualifications:
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics, or a related quantitative discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
• 3-5 years of relevant experience in data engineering or a closely related software engineering role.
• Strong hands-on proficiency in Python and SQL, including complex queries, transformations, and troubleshooting.
• Experience with Spark/PySpark and distributed data processing.
• Experience building and supporting ETL/ELT pipelines on a cloud platform such as Azure or AWS.
• Understanding of data modeling, relational databases, data lakes, data warehouses, and incremental processing patterns.
• Experience with workflow orchestration tools such as Apache Airflow or Databricks Workflows.
• Familiarity with event-driven or streaming data processing concepts, including event time, deduplication, and reliable delivery.
• Experience with Git, automated testing, and production monitoring or troubleshooting.
• Ability to independently deliver scoped work, communicate technical concepts clearly, and collaborate with technical and business stakeholders.
Preferred Qualifications:
• Hands-on experience with Databricks, Delta Lake, or lakehouse architectures.
• Experience with Databricks Asset Bundles/Declarative Automation Bundles to define, version, and deploy Databricks jobs and pipelines across environments through CI/CD.
• Experience with streaming technologies such as Kafka, Azure Event Hubs, or Spark Structured Streaming.
• Experience with retail, customer, inventory, or operational datasets.
• Experience preparing datasets for machine learning, anomaly detection, or AI model evaluation.
• Familiarity with multimodal data, unstructured data processing, or time-based event correlation.
• Exposure to edge-to-cloud data integration, containerized workloads, or Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
