Job Title: Principal Databricks Data Engineer
Location: Toronto, On 4 days Onsite
Job Type: Fulltime Permanent Role

**Title: Principal Data Engineer – Databricks**
**Key Requirements**
* 12–18 years of overall data engineering experience
* 8+ years of experience in enterprise Data Warehouse and Data Lake platforms
* 5+ years of hands-on experience with Databricks and Spark at scale
* Strong experience in modernizing legacy Cloudera platforms (CDH/CDP, Hive, HBase, Impala, Spark) to Databricks Lakehouse
* Redesign ingestion, transformation, and consumption patterns from HDFS-based architecture to cloud object storage and Delta Lake
* Refactor legacy Hive/Impala logic into PySpark and Spark SQL ELT pipelines
* Ensure data reconciliation, audit integrity, and consistency during migration
* Design and govern enterprise Data Warehouse and Data Lake/Lakehouse architectures
* Implement layered architecture including Raw/Landing, Curated/Conformed, and Semantic/Consumption layers
* Modernize traditional EDW platforms into scalable lakehouse architectures
* Strong experience in finance and risk data models including General Ledger, Sub-ledger, financial hierarchies, and risk exposure models (credit, liquidity, market risk)
* Enable reporting use cases including aggregation, drill-down, and drill-back capabilities
* Build and manage semantic/consumption layers for BI, reporting, and analytics
* Define business metrics, dimensions, hierarchies, and KPIs
* Experience with Databricks SQL, Delta tables, and dbt or similar frameworks
* Develop and optimize large-scale data pipelines using PySpark, Spark SQL, and Delta Lake
* Implement Medallion architecture (Bronze, Silver, Gold layers)
* Optimize workloads using Z-ORDER, OPTIMIZE, caching, and cluster configurations
* Implement data governance, data quality frameworks, reconciliation controls, and exception handling
* Establish data lineage and metadata management
* Ensure data security, access control, and compliance standards
* Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS or Azure
* Experience with CI/CD pipelines using Git, Terraform, Jenkins, or Azure DevOps
* Familiarity with orchestration tools such as Airflow or Databricks Workflows
* Experience with dbt is a plus
* Act as a technical authority and lead architecture decisions
* Mentor and guide senior engineers and establish engineering standards
* Strong stakeholder management with finance, risk, analytics, and governance teams
* Ability to translate complex data structures into business-ready insights
**Nice to Have**
* Experience in BFSI, Capital Markets, or regulatory reporting
* Exposure to SAP Finance, Oracle Financials, or S/4HANA
* Experience supporting AI/ML workloads
* Databricks or cloud certifications
**Impact**
* Lead Cloudera to Databricks transformation initiatives
* Shape enterprise finance and risk data platforms
* Support regulatory, management, and analytical reporting systems

Principal Databricks Data Engineer

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