Data Engineer - Databricks

Groundswell•Washington, DC

1d•$89,886 - $175,444•Onsite

About The Position

Groundswell is hiring an experienced Data Engineer to join our team supporting the Department of Transportation (DOT). This customer-facing role combines data engineering and database administration across MariaDB, SQL Server, and Databricks environments.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics, or a related technical field.
5+ years of experience in data engineering, database administration, or database development.
Demonstrated hands-on Databricks experience.
Experience administering SQL Server and/or MariaDB enterprise databases.
Advanced SQL skills, including developing and optimizing queries, stored procedures, functions, triggers, tables, and views.
Proficiency in Python, Java, or Scala.
Experience developing ETL/ELT pipelines using tools such as Apache Airflow, AWS Glue, or similar technologies.
Experience with database performance tuning, backup and restoration, disaster recovery, security, and access management.
Strong stakeholder engagement, communication, collaboration, and problem-solving skills.
Demonstrated experience leading or providing technical direction to engineering teams.
U.S. citizenship and the ability to obtain and maintain a federal Public Trust per contract requirements.

Nice To Haves

Experience with both SQL Server and MariaDB.
Experience with AWS services and cloud architecture.
Experience with medallion data architecture, including Bronze, Silver, Gold, and Platinum layers.
Experience with MicroStrategy and/or Tableau.
Experience with LLM data requirements, vector databases, or AI model deployment.
Current or previously held federal Public Trust.
Previous experience supporting DOT or related federal systems.

Responsibilities

Design and implement scalable Databricks solutions and ETL/ELT pipelines.
Apply Databricks development standards and data engineering best practices.
Administer and monitor enterprise MariaDB and SQL Server environments.
Design databases, schemas, tables, views, stored procedures, functions, and triggers.
Perform database configuration, backup, restoration, performance tuning, and disaster recovery.
Optimize SQL queries, indexes, database objects, pipelines, and server performance.
Configure and support availability groups, mirroring, clusters, encryption, and reporting servers.
Apply best practices for data modeling, relational database design, data warehousing, data quality, and lineage.
Implement database security, auditing, user access, roles, permissions, and domain-level accounts.
Troubleshoot complex database, application, and data pipeline issues.
Collaborate with business stakeholders, infrastructure, network, application, development, and vendor teams.
Translate business and technical requirements into secure, scalable data solutions.
Deliver technical demonstrations and training and support proposal efforts.