Easy-to-use corporate tax compliance software for transfer pricing, tax provision and R&D tax credit
Principal Data Platform Engineer
Location
United States
Posted
119 days ago
Salary
0
Seniority
Lead
Job Description
Principal Data Platform Engineer
Exactera
• Architect and implement centralized data platform on Databricks. • Establish governance patterns using Unity Catalog. • Optimize for cost and performance at scale. • Enable Data Engineers to build confidently on the platform. • Lead the architecture for migrating multi-terabyte datasets from legacy systems to Databricks. • Design Unity Catalog structures enabling secure data separation between product lines. • Build infrastructure that scales efficiently—through intelligent caching, query optimization, and compute management strategies. • Establish monitoring, alerting, and data quality validation to ensure platform reliability.
Job Requirements
- Databricks Expertise (Required)
- Unity Catalog: Production experience with multi-catalog governance, metastore design, and lineage tracking.
- Data Structuring: Experience designing and building unified schemas across multiple disparate product lines.
- Delta Lake: Expert-level experience with Z-ordering, compaction, liquid clustering, and performance tuning at multi-TB scale.
- Delta Live Tables: Strong hands-on experience building declarative ETL pipelines, including change data capture and expectations/constraints.
- Databricks Workflows: Experience with job orchestration, scheduling, and operational monitoring.
- Business Intelligence: Experience enabling company-wide analytics and reporting with modern business intelligence tools and maintaining source of truth data and metrics.
- PySpark & Databricks SQL: Strong proficiency for code review, performance tuning, and query optimization.
- Core Platform Engineering: 5-8 years in data engineering or data platform roles, with 3+ years hands-on Databricks experience.
- Track record leading at least one significant platform build or migration project.
- AWS experience (S3, IAM, VPC) with ability to collaborate on infrastructure decisions.
- Infrastructure-as-code experience (Terraform preferred).
- Technical Leadership: Demonstrated ability architecting data platforms from first principles and defending technical decisions.
- Strong written and verbal communication—document architecture decisions and present to both technical and business stakeholders.
- Preferred But Not Required: Experience with financial data, accounting systems (NetSuite), or enterprise ERP platforms.
- Background building platforms that serve AI/ML workloads (experience preparing data for downstream ML consumption, RAG and retrieval, and LLMs).
- Understand advanced intelligence concepts such as relationship surfacing with knowledge graphs.
- Familiarity with data governance frameworks and compliance requirements for regulated industries.
Benefits
- A collaborative team culture with opportunities for career development.
- Ample opportunities to be recognized, build valuable skills, and grow your career.
- Generous vacation policy, including paid parental leave.
- Comprehensive health plans with FSA and HSA options.
- 401(k) retirement plan.
- Life and disability insurance coverage.
- Supplemental benefits like a dependent care savings plan, pet insurance, will preparation, and an employee assistance program.
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