Azure Databricks Platform Engineer

We're Fiserv, a global leader in Fintech and payments, moving money and information in a way that moves the world. We connect financial institutions, corporations, merchants, and consumers millions of times daily—quickly, reliably, and securely. From credit card swipes to mobile payments and ATM withdrawals, we're involved.

About the role

A successful Azure Databricks Platform Engineer at Fiserv implements and manages cloud-native and hybrid data platform solutions supporting client objectives within Government Services. This role drives Azure Databricks development, deployment, performance, resiliency, and security activities while aligning project execution with EFTPS program goals. Effective communication with clients, leadership, and scrum teams, along with supporting documentation and knowledge sharing, is key to success.

Responsibilities

• Provide expertise and ownership of Azure Databricks development tasks within the scrum team, translating software requirements into agile user stories and technical tasks that support client objectives.
• Install, configure, maintain, and administer Azure Databricks environments from the ground up, including deployments, testing, configuration, and installation activities across cloud-native and hybrid data platforms.
• Design and implement data pipelines using Azure Databricks for data cleaning, transformation, and loading into a Data Lakehouse, while supporting relational and dimensional data modeling and Medallion Architecture practices.
• Troubleshoot configuration and performance issues, ensuring database resiliency through backups, restores, redundancy, geo-replication, disaster recovery capabilities, and Azure storage concepts.
• Prioritize platform security and operational excellence by addressing database vulnerabilities, collaborating with clients and leadership, and creating detailed documentation and knowledge-sharing materials for the team.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience working with Azure Databricks analytics database capabilities and other relational database technologies supported in Azure.
• 5+ years of experience with Azure Data Lake Storage Gen 2, Azure Data Explorer, Azure Event Hubs, Spark Pools, Python, PySpark, SQL, Azure Landing Zone, Azure Networking Services, and Microsoft EntraID.
• 5+ years of experience designing and implementing data pipelines with Azure Databricks, including data cleaning, transformation, Data Lakehouse loading, geo-redundancy, HA/failover, and Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform.
• U.S. citizenship or current Green Card status held for at least 3 years, with the ability to work within the continental United States and travel as needed.

Nice to have

• 1+ large-scale cloud data migration completed using Databricks, Python, Spark, and SQL.
• Experience supporting SQL Server environments across versions 2005–2022.
• 4 Azure certifications, including Azure Data Engineer Associate, Azure Database Administrator Associate, Azure Data Fundamentals, and Power BI Data Analyst Associate.

Pay

Salary range: $128,000.00 – $216,000.00 (applies to employees in New Jersey and New York; ranges for other states may differ). Eligible associates may receive an annual incentive opportunity delivered as a mix of cash bonus and equity awards at the Company’s discretion.