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We possess deep industry and technology expertise to drive and sustain adoption of new capabilities. We match our people and personalities to our clients' culture while bringing the right mix of talent and skills to enable high return on investment.\nInfinitive has been named “Best Small Firms to Work For” by Consulting Magazine 9 times most recently in 2026. Infinitive has also been named a Washington Post “Top Workplace”, Washington Business Journal “Best Places to Work”, and Virginia Business “Best Places to Work.”\nAbout the role\nAs a Consultant, Data Engineer, you will build and maintain data pipelines on Databricks for Infinitive clients. You will work on project teams with senior engineers, architects and business analysts, writing production Python, PySpark and SQL code that moves data from source systems into tables the client's analysts and data scientists use every day. The role is ideal for an engineer with one to three years of experience who wants client-facing work and regular exposure to new data platforms and industries. The client location is McLean, Virginia.What you will do\nBuild and maintain batch and incremental ETL pipelines in Databricks using Python, PySpark and Spark SQL.\nIngest data from relational databases, APIs, flat files and cloud storage (Amazon S3, Azure Data Lake Storage) into Delta Lake tables.\nImplement bronze, silver and gold layers following medallion architecture patterns.\nWrite and tune SQL for transformations, data validation and reporting tables.\nAdd data quality checks, handle schema changes and troubleshoot failed jobs.\nSchedule and monitor workloads with Databricks Workflows, working within Unity Catalog permissions.\nTune Spark jobs for performance and cost, including partitioning, file sizing and cluster configuration.\nUse Git for version control, take part in code reviews and contribute to CI/CD pipelines.\nDocument pipelines, source-to-target mappings and runbooks so client teams can run what you build.\nJoin client meetings to clarify requirements, report status and walk through your work.\nWhat you bring\n1 to 3 years of professional experience in data engineering, software engineering or a related technical role.\nBachelor's degree in computer science, information systems, engineering, mathematics or a related field, or equivalent experience.\nHands-on experience with Databricks on a professional or substantial academic project.\nWorking proficiency in Python for data processing.\nExperience building transformations with Apache Spark and PySpark (DataFrames and Spark SQL).\nStrong SQL, including joins, window functions, CTEs and aggregations.\nUnderstanding of ETL concepts such as incremental loads, slowly changing dimensions, dimensional modeling and data quality checks.\nFamiliarity with at least one cloud platform (AWS, Azure or Google Cloud).\nClear written and verbal communication, and comfort explaining technical work to non-technical stakeholders.\nAuthorization to work in the United States [confirm sponsorship policy].\nNice to have\nDatabricks Certified Data Engineer Associate certification.\nExperience with Delta Lake features such as MERGE and time travel, or with Lakeflow Declarative Pipelines (formerly Delta Live Tables).\nExposure to Unity Catalog, dbt, Apache Airflow or Azure Data Factory.\nExperience with Terraform or CI/CD tools such as GitHub Actions or Azure DevOps.\nPrior consulting or client-facing experience.\nBackground in financial services, healthcare or media data.\nInfinitive is required by law in some jurisdictions to include a reasonable estimate of the compensation range for this role. 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