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Senior Data Engineer / Data Architect Location: Fort Lauderdale, FL Work Arrangement: Fully onsite Employment Type: Direct hire, full-time Role Type: Hands-on individual contributor and technical lead Position Overview We are seeking a Senior Data Engineer / Data Architect to lead the design and hands-on development of our enterprise data foundation. This role will connect data across ERP, CRM, ecommerce, marketing, production, finance, fulfillment, and internal business systems to support trusted reporting, AI initiatives, automation, and internal applications. This is not an architecture-only or advisory position. The successful candidate must have genuine architecture experience and the ability to personally build production-grade data platforms, pipelines, models, integrations, quality controls, and data services from the ground up. The ideal candidate combines strong engineering execution with the ability to define scalable architecture, establish technical standards, and communicate effectively with both technical and business stakeholders. Top Requirements Hands-on experience with Databricks, including Lakehouse architecture, Apache Spark, data pipelines, notebooks, workflows, and production deployments. True data architecture experience, including designing enterprise data platforms, defining systems of record, developing data models, establishing data governance, and making cross-system architecture decisions. Demonstrated success engineering implementations from the ground up, rather than only maintaining or advising on existing solutions. Key Responsibilities Data Architecture Assess the current data environment, including systems, databases, APIs, integrations, reports, scheduled jobs, and data owners. Design and implement a scalable enterprise data architecture supporting reporting, AI, analytics, and internal applications. Define authoritative systems of record for customer, product, order, revenue, inventory, location, marketing, and production data. Establish common data models, identifiers, data contracts, schema standards, retention policies, and integration patterns. Determine appropriate use of batch processing, real-time events, APIs, webhooks, and governed data services. Develop architecture diagrams, technical standards, roadmaps, and implementation plans. Data Engineering and Implementation Build production-grade data pipelines and lakehouse solutions in Databricks. Develop reliable ETL and ELT processes using SQL, Python, Apache Spark, and orchestration tools. Integrate data from ERP, CRM, ecommerce, marketing, manufacturing, finance, and internal applications. Create tested transformations that produce consistent and reusable business data. Build secure APIs and data services for approved reporting, AI, automation, and application use cases. Design systems that handle failures, changing schemas, retries, late-arriving data, and duplicate-processing risks. Establish source control, automated testing, code review, deployment pipelines, and release processes for data engineering work. Data Quality and Reliability Implement automated checks for completeness, accuracy, freshness, duplication, volume changes, and consistency. Reconcile key business measures such as orders, revenue, inventory, customer counts, and production activity across systems. Monitor pipeline performance, failed jobs, delayed data, schema changes, and data-quality incidents. Build alerting, operational dashboards, runbooks, and incident-response processes. Work with source-system owners to correct the root causes of data issues. Governance, Security, and Documentation Establish practical standards for data ownership, classification, access, retention, and approved use. Apply role-based access controls, encryption, audit logging, and appropriate protection for sensitive and confidential information. Maintain clear data definitions, lineage, integration documentation, runbooks, and architecture diagrams. Partner with IT, Legal, Infrastr