Senior Data Engineer

Job overview

The Senior Data Engineer is a remote role for workers in the United States, with Pittsburgh, PA shown as the listing location. Compensation is not specified. The role supports an enterprise data warehouse and production data pipelines in an Azure Databricks environment. The position builds and operates reliable data pipelines and models across the Bronze, Silver, and Gold layers. It owns assigned production data domains, improves data quality and performance, supports a transition toward event-driven ingestion, and mentors engineers as the data platform evolves.

What you'll do

• Design and support enterprise data warehouse pipelines and models in Databricks
• develop ingestion patterns and transformations
• own production data domains, reliability, SLAs, incident response, and remediation
• build Delta Lake pipelines and support event-driven ingestion
• implement validation and quality gates
• optimize performance and costs
• document architecture and operational procedures
• review code and mentor engineers.

What we're looking for

Skills & competencies

senior data engineer

data engineering

azure databricks

delta lake

data warehouse

data pipelines

python

pyspark

sql

remote us

pittsburgh pa

nextech

Work arrangement

• Weekend coverage required

Why this role

Production Azure Databricks and Delta Lake work; medallion architecture; event-driven ingestion transition; technical mentoring and cross-functional collaboration.

About the employer

Nextech is hiring for this role. Industry: Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services. Sector: 51.