Senior Data Strategy Jobs in Decatur, GA (NOW HIRING)

This role will be responsible for both team collaboration as well as project initiative ownership and leadership. This role is for contributing to both technical expertise as well as process leadership. An Azure Databricks Engineer designs, builds, and optimizes scalable data pipelines and lakehouse solutions within the Microsoft Azure ecosystem.

Core Responsibilities Data Engineering & ETL: Develop and maintain batch/streaming data pipelines using Azure Databricks, Azure Data Factory and PowerBI Azure Integration: Integrate Databricks with (ADLS), Power-BI, ADO, Key Vault Performance Optimization: Optimize Spark jobs, cluster configurations, Serverless Policy & Cost Optimization Data Governance & Security: Implement Unity Catalog for access control, data lineage, and security compliance. DevOps & Automation: Build CI/CD pipelines for Databricks notebooks and workflows using Azure DevOPS & Terraform. Collaboration: Work with data Engineers and analysts to enable AI/ML workloads Required Qualifications Education: Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or a related field.

Technical Skills: Proficiency in Python (PySpark), SQL. Cloud Experience: Strong hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure services. CI/CD: Azure DevOPS Databricks Expertise: Experience with Delta Lake, Spark SQL, and Databricks Jobs.

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES: No direct reports but responsible for project ownership which may have reports. Responsible for mentoring of Jr. resources.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS: Responsibilities: Understand the business data needs, both current and future to help deliver and guide a data strategy Set and ensure proper adherence to strategic and tactical patterns Set technical direction for obtaining and implementing technology Help evaluate current and future staffing needs Drive the creation of new standards and best practices as technology evolves; communicate and drive adoption across the company Drive creation of new data capabilities and offerings Develop and maintain batch/streaming data pipelines using Azure Databricks, Azure Data Factory and PowerBI Integrate Databricks with (ADLS), Power-BI, ADO, Key Vault Optimize Spark jobs, cluster configurations, Serverless Policy & Cost Optimization Implement Unity Catalog for access control, data lineage, and security compliance. Build CI/CD pipelines for Databricks notebooks and workflows using Azure DevOPS & Terraform. Work with data Engineers and analysts to enable AI/ML workloads *Performs Additional Responsibilities As Assigned* QUALIFICATIONS: Education and/or experience: Bachelor’s Degree in a technical field (statistics, mathematics, science, accounting, finance) or related field 4+ Heavy Data experience across the full data life cycle Experience in architecting enterprise-wide data environments and platforms Heavy experience in data movement, transformation, and modeling processes (ELT/ETL) 4+ years’ experience working with large datasets or database systems 2+ Years working with cloud data technologies Azure Experience Proficiency in Python (PySpark), SQL.

Strong hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure services. Azure DevOPS Experience with Delta Lake, Spark SQL, and Databricks Jobs. Knowledge, skills and abilities: Cloud data experience Storage, computer, movement orchestration, reporting Full data stack experience Traditional and modern data warehousing expertise Data modeling expertise Experience in data lake patterns and process Excellent interpersonal and communication skills (written and verbal) Professional Skills: Demonstrated ability to manage time and prioritize projects to meet deadlines Excellent listening, written, and oral communication skills Excellent critical thinking skills to help solve business problems and make decisions, paired with a desire to take initiative Ability to maintain project plans, resourcing schedules, and forecasted activities Ability to work well under continually changing deadlines and priorities #LI-ML1 #CB