Senior Data Engineer

Description
This role is categorized as hybrid. This means the successful candidate is expected to report to Austin Technical Center three times per week, at minimum [or other frequency dictated by the business if more than 3 days].
What You'll Do

• Design and develop batch and streaming ETL/ELT pipelines in Azure Databricks to support ingestion, transformation, curation, and delivery of manufacturing and enterprise data.
• Build reusable Bronze, Silver, and Gold data pipelines, data quality frameworks, and governed data products in Unity Catalog.
• Build and operationalize ML workflows for data preparation, feature engineering, model training, evaluation, deployment, batch scoring, retraining, and inference.
• Establish and maintain MLflow-based model lifecycle controls, including experiment tracking, model registration, versioning, lineage, traceability, and controlled promotion across environments.
• Implement CI/CD pipelines for data products, ML code, workflows, and deployment bundles using Git-based development practices, automated testing, and release automation.
• Build and support Databricks jobs and workflows for orchestration, scheduled execution, retraining, scoring, and downstream operational consumption.
• Improve reliability, observability, and production readiness through testing, monitoring, validation, alerting, documentation, and automation that reduce deployment risk and manual intervention.
• Partner with data scientists, data engineers, platform teams, architecture, manufacturing, and business stakeholders to productionize scalable, supportable solutions aligned to production constraints.
• Support modernization of legacy data and ML workflows into standardized cloud-native Databricks patterns and help bridge proof-of-concept work into repeatable production solutions.

Your Skills & Abilities (Required Qualifications)

• 5+ years of relevant full-time experience; or equivalent knowledge
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Strong proficiency in Scala, Python, SQL, Spark, and Databricks, with production-quality software engineering practices.
• Strong experience building and supporting cloud-based ETL/ELT pipelines, data platforms, and pipeline orchestration patterns for both batch and streaming operations.
• Experience deploying machine learning models into production environments and supporting model development through operational release.
• Strong experience with Databricks jobs, workflows, repos, Unity Catalog, and MLflow-based experimentation and model lifecycle management.
• Experience building CI/CD pipelines with Git-based workflows, automated testing, and deployment of data or ML products.
• Strong troubleshooting, communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills.

What Can Give You a Competitive Advantage (Preferred Qualifications)

• Experience with DLT, structured streaming, Event Hub, Kafka, Scala, or Java in enterprise data pipeline environments.
• Experience with model governance, lineage, reproducibility, monitoring, validation checks, and operational observability.
• Experience designing resilient pipelines that can handle changing upstream data conditions, retraining needs, and production operations.
• Experience with manufacturing, industrial IoT, plant-floor data, quality, or manufacturing analytics use cases.
• Experience helping transition PoC or R&D solutions into scalable production-ready patterns.

This job may be eligible for relocation benefits.
Compensation:

• The expected base compensation for this role is: $133,000 - $188,600. Actual base compensation within the identified range will vary based on factors relevant to the position.
• Bonus Potential: An incentive pay program offers payouts based on company performance, job level, and individual performance.
• Benefits: GM offers a variety of health and wellbeing benefit programs. Benefit options include medical, dental, vision, Health Savings Account, Flexible Spending Accounts, retirement savings plan, sickness and accident benefits, life insurance, paid vacation & holidays, tuition assistance programs, employee assistance program, GM vehicle discounts and more.

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