Sr Data Commercial Engineer

MGM Resorts International • Home Office - US, NV, NV

1d • Onsite

About The Position

The Senior Commercial Data Engineer is a technical leader responsible for designing, building, and maintaining high-quality, scalable, and reliable data products that power analytics, reporting, and advanced decision-making across the enterprise. This role owns curated data enablement, data observability, metric governance, and performance optimization within Databricks, ensuring the business has consistent, trusted, and high-performing datasets.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field required
• 5+ years of experience in data engineering, analytics engineering, or data platform roles
• 3+ years building production workloads in Databricks or similar Spark environments
• Strong expertise in Databricks, Delta Lake, Lakehouse architecture, and Unity Catalog, including governance, permissions, and data certification standards.
• Advanced programming skills in Python, PySpark, and SQL, with experience in analytical SQL, distributed data processing, production-grade pipelines, and automation.
• Proven experience with data quality, observability, monitoring, anomaly detection, SLAs, validation, lineage, and self-healing pipeline frameworks.
• Strong knowledge of data modeling, partitioning, file compaction, query/performance tuning, compute optimization, and workload isolation for large-scale production environments.

Nice To Haves

• Master’s degree preferred
• preferably work with Terraform and orchestration tools such as Airflow or Databricks Workflows
• domain experience in gaming/hospitality, loyalty/customer engagement, or marketing/commercial analytics is preferred

Responsibilities

• Lead cross-functional efforts to define and maintain certified business definitions, KPIs, metrics, and logic across assigned data domains.
• Design, document, and maintain enterprise-ready curated tables and high-performance data models in Databricks aligned to business and analytical needs.
• Optimize data pipelines, partitioning, file compaction, compute utilization, and query costs to improve performance, scalability, and production stability.
• Enforce Unity Catalog governance standards, including data ownership, permissions, certification, and access management workflows.
• Establish and monitor data reliability standards, including freshness SLAs, completeness thresholds, schema drift detection, and automated anomaly monitoring.
• Own incident response, pipeline triage, and root-cause analysis for data failures, performance issues, and metric discrepancies.
• Serve as the primary data reliability owner, driving continuous improvement while training teams on certified datasets, governance practices, and trusted data usage.

Benefits

• Wellness incentive programs to help you stay healthy physically and mentally
• Access to company hotel, food and beverage, retail, and entertainment discounts as well as discounts with company partners on things like travel, electronics, online shopping, and more
• Free meals in our employee dining room
• Free parking
• Health & Income Protection benefits (for eligible employees)
• Professional and personal development through programs and networking opportunities as well as volunteer opportunities in the community

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior