Who we are. We are a team of passionate experts with a clear ambition: applying digital technology to advance what matters for our clients and society. Together we create reliable and responsive digital foundations for the world’s businesses, institutions, and communities. With a 10 year history in Romania and over 2200 employees, Atos has a presence in 3 of the largest cities in Romania: Bucharest, Brasov and Timisoara. Our Global Delivery Center in Romania offers cutting-edge, best in class, end-to-end IT services for more than 300 clients located around the world. Learn more on <a href="https://atos.net/advancing-what-matters/en/" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline">Advancing what matters</a> We are looking for a Data Engineer with deep expertise in Databricks to design, build, and scale our data platform. You will own the architecture and performance of large-scale data pipelines, drive best practices across the Lakehouse stack, and partner closely with Data Science, Analytics, and AI Engineering teams to deliver reliable, production-grade data infrastructure. This role is ideal for someone who has moved beyond writing pipelines to also shaping platform standards, mentoring engineers, and making architectural decisions on a Databricks-based Lakehouse. Key Responsibilities <ul style="margin-top:0.0cm;margin-bottom:0.0cm"> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;line-height:107%;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif">Design, build, and optimize scalable ETL/ELT pipelines on Databricks, processing large volumes of structured and unstructured data</li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;line-height:107%;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif">Architect and maintain Delta Lake-based data models, ensuring data quality, reliability, and performance across Bronze/Silver/Gold layers</li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;line-height:107%;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif">Develop and orchestrate workflows using Databricks Workflows, Delta Live Tables (DLT), and job scheduling tools</li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;line-height:107%;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif">Implement data governance, access control, and lineage using Unity Catalog</li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;line-height:107%;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif">Optimize Spark jobs for performance and cost (cluster sizing, partitioning, caching, Photon, Z-ordering, file compaction)</li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;line-height:107%;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif">Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for Databricks notebooks/jobs (Databricks Asset Bundles, Repos, Git integration)</li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;line-height:107%;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif">Collaborate with Data Scientists and ML Engineers to support feature engineering and MLflow-based model lifecycle workflows</li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;line-height:107%;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif">Define and enforce data engineering best practices: testing, version control, observability, and documentation</li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;line-height:107%;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif">Monitor pipeline health and cost, implementing alerting and proactive optimization (cluster policies, job clusters vs. all-purpose clusters)</li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;line-height:107%;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif">Mentor mid-level engineers and contribute to technical decision-making and platform roadmap</li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;line-height:107%;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif">Ensure compliance with data security and privacy requirements (e.g., GDPR)</li> </ul> <div style="text-align:center;margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 8.0pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif" align="center"> </div> Must-Have Skills <ul style="margin-top:0.0cm;margin-bottom:0.0cm"> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;line-height:107%;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif">5+ years of experience in Data Engineering, with 3+ years hands-on with Databricks</li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;line-height:107%;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif">Strong proficiency in Apache Spark (PySpark and/or Scala)</li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;line-height:107%;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif">Solid experience with Delta Lake architecture (Bronze/Silver/Gold, ACID transactions, schema evolution)</li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;line-height:107%;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif">Hands-on experience with Unity Catalog for governance and access management</li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;line-height:107%;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif">Strong SQL skills and experience with Databricks SQL Warehouses</li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;line-height:107%;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif">Experience building and orchestrating pipelines with Delta Live Tables and/or Databricks Workflows</li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;line-height:107%;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif">Proficiency in Python</li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;line-height:107%;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif">Experience with CI/CD for data pipelines (Databricks Asset Bundles, Git, Azure DevOps/GitHub Actions/GitLab CI)</li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;line-height:107%;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif">Strong understanding of cloud data architecture (any of Azure, AWS, or GCP)</li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;line-height:107%;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif">Experience with performance tuning and cost optimization on Databricks clusters</li> </ul> Nice-to-Have Skills <ul style="margin-top:0.0cm;margin-bottom:0.0cm"> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;line-height:107%;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif">Cloud-specific Databricks experience: Azure Databricks, Databricks on AWS, or Databricks on GCP</li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;line-height:107%;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif">Experience with MLflow for experiment tracking and model registry</li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;line-height:107%;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif">Familiarity with Terraform for infrastructure-as-code (Databricks provider)</li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;line-height:107%;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif">Exposure to streaming data pipelines (Structured Streaming, Kafka, Event Hubs/Kinesis)</li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;line-height:107%;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif">Experience with dbt on Databricks</li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;line-height:107%;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif">Knowledge of data observability tools (e.g., Monte Carlo, Great Expectations)</li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;line-height:107%;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif">Familiarity with LLMOps/AI workloads on Databricks (Vector Search, Model Serving)</li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;line-height:107%;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif">Databricks certifications (Data Engineer Professional/Associate, Spark Developer)</li> <li style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0px;line-height:107%;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif">Experience working under compliance frameworks (GDPR, ISO 27001, DORA)</li> </ul> Learn more about us: At Atos, we embrace diversity as the ultimate engine of ingenuity for our clients, and we constantly strive to create a culture where people feel supported and encouraged. Read more about our commitment <a href="https://www.thevaluable500.com/member/atos" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline">here</a>. Whether it is fighting climate change, promoting digital inclusion, or ensuring trust in data management – tech for good sits at the core of our identity. With numerous global recognitions for our ESG practices, we are committed to building a better future for all by harnessing the power of technology. Learn more <a href="https://atos.net/en/2023/press-release_2023_03_08/atos-ranked-in-top-50-most-sustainable-companies-in-the-world-with-seal-2022-business-sustainability-award-bsa" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline">here</a>.

Data Engineer - Databricks (Timisoara, RO) @ ATOS International

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