Forward Deployed Data Engineer IV, Databricks

The posting, as E Source wrote it

At E Source, we help utilities make sense of complexity in a rapidly changing landscape, and we’re looking for a Forward Deployed Data Engineer IV to help shape how that impact shows up in the world.

E Source is a research, data/analytics, and technology focused professional services firm focused exclusively on the Utility industry in North America. We help utilities target and serve their customers more effectively, enhance and optimize their grid, and leverage operating best practices and technologies to manage their business more effectively. Headquartered in Texas, we have 450+ employees across the US and Canada. Learn more at www.esource.com http://www.esource.com

As a Forward Deployed Data Engineer IV, you’ll join our AI and Data Engineering (AIDE) team and embed directly with utility clients to understand their hardest operational problems, then build and ship the systems that solve them: production code, in the client’s environment, used by their people, and measured against their outcomes. This role focuses on getting a utility’s data into a state where decisions, applications, and models can actually be built on it: governed, modeled, reliable, and owned by the client’s team after the engagement ends.

You’ll own engagements end to end, from technical discovery through architecture, build, deployment, and handover, with no handoff points in between. Engagements move quickly: the expectation is trusted data flowing in the client’s environment within weeks, then hardened toward production based on how their teams actually use it. You’ll work closely with client data and IT teams and executives, and with E Source machine learning engineers, software engineers, data scientists, and consultants to deliver data platforms and data products for clients and to bring field learnings back into our products and practices.

In this role, you will

• Embed with utility clients to design and build production data platforms end to end: ingestion, transformation, orchestration, quality, governance, and serving, using Databricks, Spark, Python, SQL, and Amazon Web Services (AWS)
• Own the technical architecture of each engagement and defend it to client architects, security teams, and platform owners
• Run technical discovery independently, separating the problem as stated from the underlying need, and say so when the requested solution is the wrong one
• Deliver a working, useful system early in each engagement, typically within the first few weeks, then iterate toward production hardening. Tactical solutions are legitimate; undocumented or unowned ones are not
• Lead migrations from legacy warehouses and on-premises systems to modern platforms, including undocumented dependencies
• Model data so that downstream teams can use it without re-deriving the same logic, using dimensional, lakehouse and medallion, and graph or semantic models where the domain calls for it
• Integrate with utility source systems such as asset and

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o. You’ll have the opportunity to grow your skills, contribute to meaningful work, and help shape a company that plays a real role in how the energy future unfolds.

What you can expect

• Excellent insurance options, including medical, dental, and vision plans; company-paid life insurance; company-paid long- and short-term disability insurance; medical and dependent-care flexible spending plans, and paid parental leave.
• A flexible time off (FTO) policy that provides paid time away from work, approved by your manager, while ensuring business needs, workload commitments, and appropriate coverage are maintained.
• A 401(k) plan with a 3% employer match.

The budgeted salary for this position is $175,000 – $200,000 USD + annual bonus. Actual pay will be adjusted based on experience.

This role will be remote-based within the US, with significant travel to client sites, generally 30 to 50% and varying by engagement, including extended on-site periods during discovery, deployment, and go-live.

Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the US. We’re unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of employment visas at this time.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.

Employees of E Source are encouraged to apply. To foster a positive work environment and company culture, we support our employees in their career growth at E Source. If you are interested in similar job opportunities in the future, visit the E Source careers page for a listing of all open positions and contact Human Resources.

We contact applicants directly via email using only our designated company email addresses with the domain of @esource.com http://esource.com. Please do not provide personal information to anyone over email and be wary of other accounts impersonating businesses.

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