Data Engineer

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Senior Data Engineer / ML Platform Engineer (Azure Databricks & GenAI)
Location- Austin TX or Warren MI (Onsite)
Duration- 6-month Contract to Hire (CTH)

Summary:
We are augmenting an internal team with contract contractors who have strong Azure Databricks and ML data platform skills. Our staff already owns platform standards Unity Catalog governance and architecture; we need additional capacity to deliver lakehouse pipelines catalogued engineering and enterprise datasets and GenAI-ready data products (embeddings retrieval batch enrichment) in parallel with other priorities. Assignments may span multiple programsnot a single fixed productso candidates should be comfortable ramping on new domains and codebases quickly.

Responsibilities:
Design and build production data pipelines on Databricks (PySpark/SQL Delta Lake Unity Catalog Workflows/Jobs) with idempotency testing monitoring and clear lineage.
Model bronze / silver / gold layers and data contracts (schemas SLAs quality checks) for analytics and downstream applications.
Develop ML-oriented data products: feature stores or curated tables embedding generation chunking/indexing for RAG batch classification/enrichment and evaluation of retrieval/data quality.
Integrate with Azure services (ADLS Gen2 Key Vault managed identities private connectivity) following enterprise security and compliance patterns.
Partner with application and ML teams to expose stable APIs tables and volumes that power agentic workflows (tool-backed assistants multi-step orchestration) without owning full UI or real-time serving unless scoped.
Document data dictionaries runbooks and handoff materials; participate in code review and agile ceremonies with full-time staff.

Required qualifications:
5 years in data engineering including 2 years production Databricks on Azure.
Strong Python (PySpark pandas); SQL; experience operationalizing jobs at scale.
Hands-on Delta Lake and Unity Catalog (schemas grants environments promotion patterns).
Experience building pipelines that feed ML/GenAI use cases: embeddings vector or hybrid search inputs labeled datasets batch inference outputs.
Git CI-friendly repo layout (notebooks packages) unit/integration testing for data pipelines.
Strong communication; effective in staff augmentation models (embedded with internal leads shared standards).

Preferred qualifications:
GenAI / agentic systems: RAG design retrieval evaluation metadata for grounding guardrails-aware data prep.
Multi-source integration: documents PLM/BOM-style structured data files in object storage APIs spreadsheetsnormalized into a catalog.
Exposure to containerized or microservice backends (for collaboration with app teams not primary ownership).

Nice to have (role-dependent):
MLOps on Databricks (Model Serving Feature Serving experiment tracking).
Stream or near-real-time ingestion (Structured Streaming event-driven triggers).
Infrastructure-as-code literacy (Terraform/Bicep)often owned internally; ability to consume outputs is enough.
Graph or highly relational domains (requirements traceability product structure hierarchies).
Automotive or complex manufacturing data (helpful not required).

What we provide:
Platform expertise Databricks/Azure standards architecture review and access to tooling and repos per assignment.
Clear priorities from product/engineering owners; expectations to align with existing team patterns rather than invent a separate stack.

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