Data Engineer
Technology
Atlanta, United States$87,100 - $157,450 /year2 months ago
Full time
Job description
We're hiring on behalf of a Haystack partner!
The Role
- Support a strategic modernization initiative to migrate SAS datasets, ETL processes, and analytical workloads to the Databricks Lakehouse Platform
- Convert legacy SAS data processing into scalable PySpark and SparkR solutions
- Develop scalable data pipelines using Apache Spark within the Databricks environment
- Design and optimize Delta Lake tables for performance, reliability, and scalability
- Validate migrated datasets through automated reconciliation and data quality testing
- Partner with business analysts, data scientists, and application teams to ensure functional equivalence between SAS and Databricks solutions
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related discipline
- 5+ years of experience in Data Engineering or ETL development
- Strong experience developing with SAS (Base SAS, DATA Step, PROC SQL, SAS Macros)
- Hands-on experience with Databricks and proficiency in PySpark and/or SparkR
- Advanced SQL development skills and experience with Delta Lake architecture and Spark optimization techniques
- Experience building and maintaining enterprise-scale data pipelines, knowledge of data modeling, data warehousing, and distributed computing principles
- Opportunity to work on enterprise SAS modernization initiatives
- Exposure to Unity Catalog, Delta Live Tables, and Databricks Workflows
- Familiarity with Azure Data Factory, Azure Synapse, or other cloud-native data integration services
Keywords
monthsOfExperience: 60Apache SparkScalabilityMacroMacosSqlApache SynapseApache LicenseApache Http ServerUnityBig data
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