Description
We are looking for a skilled and passionate Senior Databricks Engineer to design, build, and optimize enterprise-scale data lakehouse solutions on the Databricks platform. The successful candidate will be responsible for creating Databricks pipeline delivering Financial Crime platforms covering Anti-Money Laundering (AML), Know Your Customer (KYC), Customer Risk Assessment (CRA), Sanctions Screening, Transaction Monitoring, Fraud Detection, and Regulatory Reporting
Responsibilities
Databricks Platform Engineering
- Design, build, and maintain Databricks workspaces, clusters, and compute pools across dev/test/prod environments.
- Configure and manage Databricks Unity Catalog for data governance, access control, fine-grained permissions, and data lineage.
- Optimize cluster configurations — instance types, auto-scaling policies, spot/preemptible nodes — for cost and performance.
- Implement workspace-level best practices: folder structures, access controls, secret management (Databricks Secrets / Azure Key Vault / AWS Secrets Manager).
- Manage Databricks jobs,
workflows, and multi-task job orchestration with dependency management.
Delta Lake & Lakehouse Architecture
- Design and implement Delta Lake tables with appropriate partitioning, Z-ordering, and file compaction (OPTIMIZE / VACUUM).
- Build Medallion Architecture (Bronze / Silver / Gold) layers for structured data lake organization.
- Implement Delta Live Tables (DLT) pipelines for declarative, reliable ETL/ELT with built-in data quality expectations.
- Manage schema evolution, table versioning, time travel, and Change Data Feed (CDF) for incremental processing.
- Design data lakehouse patterns integrating Delta Lake with external systems (Kafka, ADLS, S3, GCS).
Data Pipeline Development (PySpark / SQL)
- Develop scalable batch and streaming data pipelines using PySpark, Spark SQL, and Delta Lake.
- Build structured streaming pipelines for real-time ingestion from Kafka, Event Hubs, and Kinesis i
📌 Senior Databricks Engineer (Chennai)
🏢 EXL
📍 Chennai