Data Engineer – Databricks (Finance & Risk, Cloudera Modernization)

Role Description: Seeking a highly experienced Principal Databricks Data Engineer to lead modernization of large-scale Finance and Risk data platforms from legacy Cloudera ecosystems to cloud-native Databricks Lakehouse architectures. The role requires deep hands-on expertise in enterprise data warehousing, data lakes, finance and risk data models, and semantic consumption layers, with strong experience supporting regulatory reporting, management reporting, and analytics use cases.

The individual will serve as a hands-on architect and technical authority, partnering closely with Finance, Risk, Analytics, and Governance stakeholders while driving enterprise-scale platform modernization initiatives. Experience Required

• 8+ years across enterprise Data Warehouse and Data Lake platforms
• 5+ years of hands-on experience with Databricks and Spark at scale Key Responsibilities
• Cloudera to Databricks Modernization
• Lead modernization of legacy Cloudera platforms including:
• CDH / CDP
• Hive
• HBase
• Impala
• Spark
• Redesign ingestion, transformation, and consumption patterns from HDFS-centric architectures to cloud object storage and Delta Lake Refactor legacy Hive/Impala logic into Py. Spark and Spark SQL-based ELT pipelines.
• Ensure data parity, reconciliation, and audit integrity during platform migration. Enterprise Data Warehouse & Data Lake Architecture Design and govern enterprise Data Warehouse and Data Lake/Lakehouse architectures Implement layered architectures including:
• Raw landing zones
• Curated/conformed layers
• Semantic consumption layers
• Modernize traditional EDW patterns into scalable, domain-aligned lakehouse designs Finance & Risk Data Modeling Support implementation of finance and risk data models including:
• General Ledger and Sub-ledger data
• Accounting events and financial hierarchies Risk exposure Liquidity Credit risk Market risk models Enable aggregation, drill-down, and drill-back capabilities from reports to transaction-level data. Support:
• Regulatory reporting
• Management reporting
• Analytics use cases
• Semantic Consumption Layers
• Build and manage semantic consumption layers to ensure consistent business logic across:
• BI and reporting tools
• Finance and Risk analytics
• Self-service analytics platforms Define:
• Metrics
• Dimensions
• Hierarchies
• KPIs aligned to finance and risk definitions Implement semantic models using:
• Databricks SQL
• Delta Tables