Are you a hands-on Databricks Developer ready to build scalable data solutions? Apply Now!
Working with one of our top financial clients, this role calls for a Databricks Developer to design, develop, and optimise enterprise-grade data pipelines using Databricks and Apache Spark. This six-month contract offers the opportunity to work with large-scale datasets, contribute to solution design, collaborate with business and technology stakeholders, and apply advanced data engineering practices in a fast-paced environment. Banking or financial services experience is highly preferred.
Pay rate range (CAD): $75.00/hr – $77.00/hr
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and optimise data pipelines using Databricks and Apache Spark.
- Build scalable ETL pipelines supporting batch processing, Auto Loader, and Spark Structured Streaming.
- Develop and maintain end-to-end data environments, including catalogs, schemas, tables, materialised views, functions, and volumes.
- Implement slowly changing dimensions using SCD 1 and SCD 2 methodologies.
- Build and support change data capture pipelines.
- Use Unity Catalog to manage data governance and access across data environments.
- Develop Lakehouse Federation solutions and create foreign catalogs for external data sources.
- Apply Databricks partitioning and liquid clustering techniques to improve performance.
- Work with large-scale datasets in distributed computing environments.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams and business stakeholders to understand requirements and deliver effective solutions.
- Contribute to solution design discussions and provide practical technical recommendations.
- Ensure data quality, performance, scalability, and reliability across delivered solutions.
- Communicate technical concepts clearly to stakeholders at varying levels of technical expertise.
Desired Skill-Set
- Strong hands-on experience developing solutions with Databricks and Apache Spark.
- Experience with Azure Databricks or Delta Lake.
- Proven experience building batch and streaming ETL pipelines using Auto Loader and Spark Structured Streaming.
- Strong hands-on experience with Unity Catalog.
- Experience creating catalogs, schemas, tables, materialised views, functions, and volumes.
- Experience implementing SCD 1 and SCD 2 solutions for dimension tables.
- Experience developing change data capture pipelines.
- Strong experience with Lakehouse Federation and foreign catalogs.
- Strong understanding of Databricks partitioning and liquid clustering.
- Experience working in enterprise environments; banking or financial services experience is preferred.
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
- Ability to work independently and effectively in a fast-paced environment.
Nice to Have
- Experience with Kafka.
- Experience with Python.
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