
Senior Data Engineer – Data Architect, Automation-Led Modernization
Doran Jones Inc.
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: Texas • United States
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About the role
- Assess legacy data and reporting workloads to identify where automation replaces manual effort.
- Lead the migration of Informatica-based data workloads to Databricks, ensuring performance, reliability, and data integrity.
- Design and execute an automation-first modernization strategy for data pipelines, reporting systems, and analytics platforms.
- Apply tool-assisted and AI-assisted techniques to accelerate modernization while maintaining compliance and control.
- Build repeatable frameworks and patterns for: Data ingestion, transformation, and orchestration; Reporting and analytics modernization; Data validation, reconciliation, and quality controls.
- Establish governance to ensure modernization efforts are consistent, auditable, and scalable.
- Partner with distributed data teams to deploy and scale modernization patterns across environments.
- Provide hands-on technical leadership while remaining engaged in execution.
Requirements
- 10+ years in data engineering and/or data architecture.
- Proven track record of modernizing large-scale, complex, legacy data and reporting environments.
- Hands-on experience migrating or modernizing Informatica-based data pipelines to modern platforms such as Databricks.
- Demonstrated use of automation frameworks, accelerators, or AI-assisted tools to compress delivery timelines.
- Hands-on experience with Azure, Cloudera, and Power BI.
- Strong experience designing and operating ETL/ELT pipelines and analytics layers.
- Deep understanding of data quality, lineage, reconciliation, and validation frameworks.
- Experience working in large-scale or regulated enterprise environments.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
data engineeringdata architectureInformaticaDatabricksautomation frameworksETLELTdata qualitydata validationdata reconciliation
Soft Skills
technical leadershipcollaborationcommunicationgovernanceauditingscalabilityexecution