Role description

Senior Data Engineer (Azure Databricks)

Lead II - Data Engineering

UST is searching for a Senior Data Engineer with deep understanding of Spark fundamentals: lazy evaluation, transformations vs. actions, partitions, shuffles, joins, and caching.

The opportunity:
• Partitioning and file layout to match read patterns
• Designing tables for CDC and incremental processing
• Documentation and stakeholder communication
• Databricks Jobs/Workflows: task orchestration, cluster policies, retries, parameters
• Git integration (Repos), CI/CD, and environment promotion

This position description identifies the responsibilities and tasks typically associated with the performance of the position. Other relevant essential functions may be required.

What you need:
• 5+ years building batch and/or streaming pipelines with Spark
• (Nice to have) Performance tuning: broadcast joins, AQE, skew mitigation, shuffle optimization
• (Nice to have) Structured Streaming and Auto Loader for incremental ingestion
• (Nice to have) OPTIMIZE, Z ORDER, VACUUM and retention policies
• (Nice to have) Compaction and small files mitigation strategies
• Nice to have (optional)
• Scala, dbt, Kafka/Event Hubs, ADF/Airflow, Terraform, Power BI, data mesh concepts, SCD patterns
• Total experience: 8+ years

Compensation can differ depending on factors including but not limited to the specific office location, role, skill set, education, and level of experience. UST provides a reasonable range of compensation for roles that may be hired in various U.S. markets as set forth below.

Role Location: Alpharetta, Georgia

Compensation Range: $92,000-$138,000

Benefits

Full-time, regular employees accrue a minimum of 10 days of paid vacation per year, receive 6 days of paid sick leave each year (pro-rated for new hires throughout the year), 10 paid holidays, and are eligible for paid bereavement leave and jury duty. They are eligible to participate in the Company's 401(k) Retirement Plan with employer matching. They and their dependents residing in the US are eligible for medical, dental, and vision insurance, as well as the following Company-paid Employee Only benefits: basic life insurance, accidental death and disability insurance, and short- and long-term disability benefits. Regular employees may purchase additional voluntary short-term disability benefits, and participate in a Health Savings Account (HSA) as well as a Flexible Spending Account (FSA) for healthcare, dependent child care, and/or commuting expenses as allowable under IRS guidelines. Benefits offerings vary in Puerto Rico.

Part-time employees receive 6 days of paid sick leave each year (pro-rated for new hires throughout the year) and are eligible to participate in the Company's 401(k) Retirement Plan with employer matching.

Full-time temporary employees receive 6 days of paid sick leave each year (pro-rated for new hires throughout the year) and are eligible to participate in the Company's 401(k) program with employer matching. They and their dependents residing in the US are eligible for medical, dental, and vision insurance.

Part-time temporary employees receive 6 days of paid sick leave each year (pro-rated for new hires throughout the year).

All US employees who work in a state or locality with more generous paid sick leave benefits than specified here will receive the benefit of those sick leave laws.

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