Senior Associate Data Engineer building Azure and Databricks pipelines for Publicis Sapient’s digital transformation clients. Supporting AI-enabled data services, retrieval systems, and scalable cloud platforms.
Responsibilities
Work closely with clients to turn complex ideas into end-to-end data solutions
Translate client requirements into system designs and develop solutions delivering measurable business value
Lead, design, develop, and deliver large-scale data systems, data processing, data transformation, and data platform modernization initiatives
Build and optimize batch and streaming data pipelines across modern cloud data platforms and distributed processing frameworks
Design data foundations, retrieval patterns, context engineering approaches, and scalable data services supporting agentic and machine learning solutions
Automate data platform operations and manage post-production systems, observability, quality, reliability, and operational processes
Build telemetry pipelines capturing prompt, response, trace, latency, token, and cost data for AI-enabled services in queryable form
Conduct technical feasibility assessments and provide project estimates
Mentor, support, and grow junior team members while contributing hands-on to delivery
Requirements
Demonstrable experience implementing end-to-end data pipelines and production-grade data platforms
Hands-on experience with at least one leading public cloud data platform: Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud Platform
Hands-on experience with Azure Cloud Services, including Azure Data Lake Storage (ADLS), Azure Functions, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), and Azure Databricks
Experience with Databricks as a data engineering platform, including notebooks, jobs, Delta Lake, or similar lakehouse patterns
Strong Python proficiency and practical experience using Python-based tooling for data engineering, automation, platform development, or AI engineering workflows
In-depth knowledge of Scala, Apache Spark, PySpark, Python, Java, and shell scripting
Experience with column-oriented, NoSQL, and traditional database technologies
Experience implementing streaming and batch data pipelines using Glue ETL, Lambda, Google Cloud Dataflow, Azure Data Factory, Spark, Spark Streaming, or similar technologies
Proficiency using Apache Airflow to orchestrate complex data workflows
Experience with data modeling, warehouse design, fact/dimension implementations, and modern lakehouse or data mesh patterns
Experience with code repositories, continuous integration, automated testing, release management, and production support practices
Familiarity with MLOps concepts and AI/ML deployment, validation, monitoring, rollback, and operational reliability
Ability to handle module or track-level responsibilities while contributing hands-on
Good communication skills and willingness to work in a collaborative, cross-functional team
Exposure to AI engineering patterns, context engineering, retrieval-augmented generation, agent architectures, and production data services
Experience building pipelines for retrieval systems, including document parsing, chunking, metadata extraction, embedding generation, incremental reindexing, vector databases, graph databases, semantic search, and knowledge retrieval
Exposure to agentic platforms or cloud AI services such as Vertex AI, Azure AI services, or AWS AI services
Experience building evaluation data infrastructure for AI systems, including ground-truth and golden datasets, offline evaluation pipelines, LLM-as-judge, and regression testing
Experience modeling and persisting agent state, session context, conversation history, and memory stores
Developer certifications for AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, Databricks, Snowflake, or related platforms are advantageous
Experience applying AI engineering concepts in practical business environments
Hands-on experience supporting AI/ML and LLM lifecycle needs
Experience in retail, financial services, energy, CPG, logistics, manufacturing, or other data-rich industries
Good understanding of capital markets domain requirements, particularly FINRA compliance
Understanding of Agile, product, and delivery methodologies in consulting or client-facing environments
Benefits
Ongoing learning and development opportunities
Competitive compensation and benefits package
Flexibility to support work-life balance
Comprehensive health benefits for you and your family
Generous paid leave and holidays
Wellness program and employee assistance
Inclusive workplace promoting diversity and collaboration
Reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans
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