Lead Data Engineer – Databricks

🚨 Now Hiring: Lead Data Engineer – Databricks 🚨 💲 $93–$100/hr. W2 Remote (EST Hours Preferred) | Richmond, VA Area Preferred | Contract-to-hire opportunity with anticipated conversion salary around $135K annually Please note: We are not accepting submissions from third-party vendors or staffing agencies for this opportunity. Candidates must be authorized to work in the United States on a W2 basis without current or future sponsorship requirements. Alphanumeric is partnering with a long-established leader in the financial and insurance industry to hire an experienced Data Engineer with deep Databricks expertise. We are seeking strong hands-on engineers who thrive building scalable cloud-based data solutions leveraging: ✔ Databricks ✔ Medallion Architecture ✔ PySpark & SQL ✔ Delta Lake ✔ Streaming & Batch Pipelines ✔ Unity Catalog ✔ CI/CD & GitLab ✔ Dimensional Modeling & SCD2 This team is modernizing enterprise data capabilities while developing advanced frameworks, data quality solutions, observability capabilities, and AI-driven initiatives including Intelligent Document Processing and document extraction from medical underwriting data. The environment is highly collaborative and ideal for engineers who enjoy: 🔹 Building from scratch 🔹 Solving complex data challenges 🔹 Working across architecture and engineering teams 🔹 Optimizing large-scale Databricks environments 🔹 Influencing best practices and scalable frameworks Preferred Backgrounds Include: ▪ Financial services or insurance data environments ▪ Azure or AWS Databricks ecosystems ▪ Enterprise-scale data engineering transformations This is an excellent opportunity to join a growing data engineering organization focused on innovation, modern cloud technologies, and advanced analytics initiatives. #Databricks #DataEngineer #PySpark #DataEngineering #Azure #AWS #DeltaLake #DataArchitecture #Hiring #RemoteJobs #SQL #BigData #RichmondVA #FinancialServices #InsuranceTech