84.51° is looking to design, build, and operate their analytical lakehouse on a modern data stack to personalize the experience for millions of households using first-party retail data.
Requirements
Databricks: 2–3+ years with Spark (PySpark/SQL); experience building and operating DLT pipelines and Delta Lake.
Azure: Proficiency with ADLS Gen2, Entra ID (Azure AD), Key Vault, Databricks on Azure, and related services.
Expert-level SQL and strong Python; Git/GitHub, unit/integration/data testing, and performance tuning.
Hands-on Terraform for data platform resources and policies.
Solid understanding of medallion and dimensional modeling, data warehousing concepts, and CI/CD best practices.
Experience with ELT tools (e.g., Fivetran), Snowflake, and streaming (Event Hubs, Kafka).
Familiarity with AI-ready data practices and AI developer tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot).
Responsibilities
Design, develop, and optimize secure, scalable batch and near-real-time pipelines on Databricks (PySpark/SQL) with Delta Lake and Delta Live Tables (DLT).
Implement medallion architecture, Unity Catalog governance, and robust data quality checks (expectations/testing).
Build performant data models and tables to power analytics, ML, and downstream applications.
Translate business requirements into data contracts, schemas, and SLAs in partnership with Product and Analytics.
Implement monitoring, alerting, lineage, and cost/performance telemetry; troubleshoot and tune Spark jobs and storage.
Participate in on-call/incident response rotations and drive post-incident improvements.
Contribute to coding standards, code reviews, and reusable patterns/modules.
Other
4–6 years in data engineering; 1–2 years operating as a senior/lead individual contributor on delivery-critical projects.
Proven track record delivering production-grade pipelines and data products on cloud platforms.
Excellent communicator with the ability to work across Product, Analytics, Security, and Platform teams in an agile setup.
Applicants for employment in the US must have work authorization that does not now or in the future require sponsorship of a visa for employment authorization in the United Stated and with the Kroger Family of Companies.
