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Wise Skulls

Senior Data Engineer

Full Time · In Office · New York, New York (USA)

Posted Oct 21, 2026

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Hiring: Lead Data Engineer - Databricks

Important

  • Visa: USC and GC only
  • Location: Manhattan, New York (Onsite)

JD:

  • Role Overview
  • Client is seeking a Lead Data Engineer with deep hands-on expertise in Databricks, SQL, Python, and
  • PySpark to design, develop, and optimize scalable data engineering solutions.
  • This role offers an opportunity to work on enterprise-scale data platforms supporting analytics, digital
  • products, and emerging AI use cases. The candidate will drive Databricks engineering best practices,
  • solve challenging technical problems, and provide technical leadership across multiple initiatives.

Key Responsibilities

  • Design and develop scalable data pipelines on Databricks, following Medallion Architecture.
  • Build and optimize data ingestion, transformation, and orchestration workflows for batch and
  • incremental processing.
  • Optimize data processing workloads, SQL queries, and compute configurations for performance
  • and cost efficiency.
  • Ensure data quality, observability, lineage, and reliability across production pipelines, including
  • troubleshooting complex issues.
  • Provide hands-on technical leadership through solution design, code reviews, reusable
  • engineering patterns, and mentoring other engineers.

Required Qualifications

  • 6+ years of Data Engineering experience, with substantial hands-on experience delivering
  • production solutions on Databricks.
  • Strong proficiency in SQL, Python, and PySpark, including distributed data processing and
  • performance optimization.
  • Strong understanding of Databricks Lakehouse architecture, Delta Lake, Unity Catalog, and
  • workflow orchestration.
  • Familiarity with Git, CI/CD, and production deployment practices.
  • Strong troubleshooting, problem-solving, and communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Databricks Certified Data Engineer Associate or Professional certification.
  • Experience working with AWS cloud services, particularly S3 and cloud-based data integrations.
  • Experience with advanced ingestion patterns such as Auto Loader, Structured Streaming, or
  • Change Data Capture (CDC).
  • Familiarity with Databricks Asset Bundles or Apache Airflow.
  • Experience with large-scale media datasets: streaming, clickstream, or advertising data.

Interested? Apply now or DM us to explore this opportunity! You can share resumes at [email protected]

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