Senior Engineer

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Job Description:

Responsibilities

We are seeking an early-career Business Systems Engineer with a strong foundation in Data Pipeline Management, supported by hands-on experience with dbt Core, SQL, and Databricks on AWS. This role is intended for candidates who already understand the fundamentals of building, deploying, and supporting Data Universe systems and want to apply those skills in a production data platform.

You will work on Data Engineering workflows end-to-end, from preparing high-quality data to supporting Analytics which enabled business decisions making, with hands-on ownership.

Data Pipeline Management

• Perform regular data validation and cleansing to ensure the accuracy, integrity, and reliability of datasets
• Identify and resolve data pipeline failures (debug data anomalies and issues using SQL and dbt test results)
• Build and maintain ETL/ELT processes to move data from various sources into data warehouses or lakes
• Write and optimize SQL transformations that support feature engineering and model training

• Setup data catalog, execute and monitor data and ML workloads using Databricks
• On-board data product owners to Data Universe platform
• Support AWS-based lakehouse architectures, primarily using Amazon S3
• Setup IAM (Identity and Access Management) roles, permissions, and secure access patterns
• Troubleshoot and optimize cloud-based AI and data workflows
• Support batch and micro-batch processing using Spark
• Manage data governance and security access and discovery using Databricks Unity Catalog

Enable AI-Ready Data Models

• Design and maintain high-performance Delta Lake pipelines using the Medallion Architecture (Bronze, Silver, and Gold) 
• Apply dbt tests and documentation to ensure data quality for AI consumption
• Architect curated datasets that maintain strict alignment with upstream raw sources, ensuring a seamless and transparent flow of information from ingestion to consumption
• Execute code reviews and follow established dbt and SQL standards

• Build and maintain training and inference workflows on Databricks
• Prepare and validate feature datasets used by ML models, ensuring correctness, consistency, and timeliness
• Support LLM-enabled use cases, such as:
  • embedding generation
  • semantic search
  • retrieval-augmented generation (RAG)
• Monitor model inputs and outputs for data quality issues and unexpected behavior
• Understand how upstream data changes affect model performance, stability, and bias.

Requirements/Qualifications:

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience)
• 5+ years of experience in data engineering, data warehousing, or software engineering
• Expert-level in SQL skills with experience transforming analytical datasets.
• Hands-on and extensive experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure)
• Hands-on and extensive experience with Databricks on AWS (academic, internship, or project-based)
• Working knowledge of dbt Core, including models, tests, and documentation
• Familiarity with Python for data processing or ML workflows
• Experience using Git or another version control system

Competency

• Good communication and interpersonal skills
• Creativity and problem solving
• Identifying continuous improvement opportunities
• Study current practices, think outside the box, and foster creative analysis to complex problems
• High learning agility and adapt quickly to priority changes
• Be self-driven
• Work independently and in a team to develop innovation

Travel Time:

0% - 25%

Physical Attributes:

Hearing, Seeing, Talking, Works Alone, Works Around Others

Physical Requirements:

100% inside, normal business hours

Microchip Technology Inc is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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