Job#: 2058492

Job Description:

Position: Senior Spark Data Engineer

Direct Hire

100% Remote

Apex Systems is seeking a Senior Spark Data Engineer for a Direct-Hire position that is 100% remote. You will be joining an innovating Data team to help drive our recent Databricks adoption. The ideal candidate will have a deep background in Data Engineering and can help lead our Data Unification & Optimization approach.

Must Have Qualifications:

· 10+ years of enterprise-level Data Engineering and/or Software Development

· 4-5 years’ experience Spark

· Advanced in Python or PySpark

· Databricks background OR Databricks Spark

· Managing and tuning of Data Lake and Lakehouse storage objects with accompanying data engineering pipelines.

Job Duties/Responsibilities:

· Serve as the subject matter expert in technologies used for our data strategy in the cloud.

· Help drive Adoption of Spark DataBricks across the organization

· Facilitate and drive our Data Unification & Optimization approach

· Design, develop, optimize, and maintain data architecture and pipelines that adhere to ETL principles and business goals

· Solve complex data problems to deliver insights that helps the organizations business to achieve their goals

· Create data products for analytics and data scientist team members to improve their productivity

· Foster a culture of sharing, re-use, design for scale stability, and operational efficiency of data and analytical solutions

· Lead the evaluation, implementation and deployment of emerging tools and process for analytic data engineering to improve the organizations productivity as a team

· Partner with business analysts and solutions architects to develop technical architectures for strategic enterprise projects and initiatives.

Nice to Have:

· Kafka or JAVA background (Observability)

· Apache Iceberg or other similar tools such as Monte Carlo

· SQL , Azure Data Factory

· Experience in designing and/or developing Analytics applications using tools such as Power BI, QlikView, SAS, RapidMiner or other comparable products.

· Experience in creating, analyzing and documenting ER and Dimensional models.

Education:

· Bachelors degree in computer science, MIS or a related field + 10 years of relative experience.

Apex Systems is a world-class IT services company that serves thousands of clients across the globe. When you join Apex, you become part of a team that values innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning. We offer quality career resources, training, certifications, development opportunities, and a comprehensive benefits package. Our commitment to excellence is reflected in many awards, including ClearlyRated's Best of Staffing® in Talent Satisfaction in the United States and Great Place to Work® in the United Kingdom and Mexico.

Apex Benefits Overview: Apex offers a range of supplemental benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and other insurance plans that offer an optional layer of financial protection. We offer an ESPP (employee stock purchase program) and a 401K program which allows you to contribute typically within 30 days of starting, with a company match after 12 months of tenure. Apex also offers a HSA (Health Savings Account on the HDHP plan), a SupportLinc Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with up to 8 free counseling sessions, a corporate discount savings program and other discounts. In terms of professional development, Apex hosts an on-demand training program, provides access to certification prep and a library of technical and leadership courses/books/seminars once you have 6+ months of tenure, and certification discounts and other perks to associations that include CompTIA and IIBA. Apex has a dedicated customer service team for our Consultants that can address questions around benefits and other resources, as well as a certified Career Coach. You can access a full list of our benefits, programs, support teams and resources within our ‘Welcome Packet’ as well, which an Apex team member can provide.