Our mortgage industry client is seeking a Database Engineer to own the operation, reliability, and evolution of its Databricks Lakehouse platform post-migration. This hands-on role focuses on maintaining performant, cost-efficient, and compliant ingestion pipelines, transformation layers, and warehouse solutions in a regulated lending environment.
You'll join a small, senior team with direct ownership, high visibility, and autonomy.
This is a fulltime direct hire role, hybrid onsite Tuesdays and Thursdays in Irvine, CA with remaining days remote.
Required Skills & Qualifications
- 3+ years of production data engineering experience
- Databricks Certification
- Strong Databricks expertise, including notebooks, jobs, workflows, cluster configuration, SQL warehouses, and Unity Catalog
- Proficiency in Python, PySpark, and SQL
- Solid MSSQL / SQL Server experience
- Hands-on experience with Apache Airflow (DAGs, scheduling, debugging)
- Experience integrating SaaS/CRM data sources (e.g., Salesforce APIs)
- Ability to operate and troubleshoot live production pipelines
- Strong communication and technical documentation skills
Key Responsibilities
- Own day-to-day operation of Databricks jobs, pipelines, clusters, Delta Lake tables, and SQL warehouses
- Develop and optimize Spark transformations across bronze/silver/gold layers, including incremental ingestion (Auto Loader, Structured Streaming)
- Maintain orchestration using Databricks Workflows and Apache Airflow to meet SLA requirements
- Administer governance and access via Unity Catalog, ensuring proper PII controls
- Manage and tune MSSQL databases, focusing on performance, indexing, and schema design
- Monitor and optimize DBU usage and cluster costs through alerting and right-sizing
- Troubleshoot pipeline failures, data quality issues, schema drift, and connectivity problems
- Support platform reliability, documentation, and shared operational ownership across the team
In this position, you may have access to client or customer systems, confidential and/or proprietary information or data, including financial information. This position is onsite and requires you to work closely with other individuals in a collaborative team environment.
Benefits
Benefits include Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance, company-paid life insurance, 401K with a generous employer match and additional benefits such as Free Legal Services and an Employee Loan Program.
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For Creative Circle to represent you for this opportunity, you must be currently authorized to work in the United States without the need of employer sponsorship for a non-immigrant visa such as a H-1B, TN, or O visa. We do not support or provide training for STEM/OPT programs. Additionally, you must be physically located in and perform the work for our client in the United States.This is a new role.
This job was first posted by Creative Circle on 06/11/2026 and applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled or closed.
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