Data Platform Engineer (Databricks)

Data Platform Engineer (Databricks) Location: Los Angeles, CA / Irvine, CA / Seattle, WA / New York, NY (3 days onsite/week) Employment Type: Contract

Company Overview Glint Tech Solutions is a women-owned, global IT staffing and recruiting firm serving enterprise clients across the USA and Canada.

Project Description This role sits at the intersection of platform engineering, data engineering, and data product development for a leading enterprise client. The engineer will build reusable platform capabilities and data products enabling quantitative researchers to discover, access, and consume data across a complex data landscape, then accelerate promising prototypes into production.

Key Responsibilities

Design, build, and enhance platform capabilities within Databricks and related technologies

Build reusable data products and self-service capabilities

Design and maintain data pipelines and integration frameworks

Improve data quality, reliability, lineage, and monitoring

Partner with researchers to prototype solutions and establish patterns that streamline research-to-production delivery

Mandatory Skills

8+ years of platform and data solutions experience

Hands-on Databricks experience (workspace, notebooks, jobs) and platform capability development

Python

SQL

Modern CI/CD and Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform strongly preferred)

Data governance and observability (Unity Catalog, lineage, monitoring)

Orchestration (Airflow)

AI fluency — hands-on use of AI agents (Claude Code preferred) to design, build, test, and support solutions

Nice-to-Have Skills

Financial domain experience, especially quant research

API development

PowerBI

To Apply Send resumes to [email protected]