Senior Databricks Data Engineer

Join Georgia-Pacific’s Data Platform team in Atlanta, GA (hybrid) to help expand access to trusted, high-quality data across multiple business units. This role focuses on building and enhancing Databricks-native data engineering solutions that are governed, scalable, and aligned with enterprise architecture, governance, security, and data-quality standards.

You will create long-term value by developing reliable pipelines, reusable engineering patterns, and automated capabilities that accelerate ingestion, feature engineering, and consumption for analytics, advanced analytics, and AI use cases. The Data Platform team works closely with Data Governance, Data Delivery, Data Product Owners, Solution Architects, and other platform and product groups to strengthen data accessibility, reliability, lineage, and quality across the enterprise.

What you will do

• Design, build, deploy, and support Databricks-native data engineering solutions, including Delta Lake pipelines, Lakeflow Declarative Pipelines, Databricks Jobs, Auto Loader ingestion pipelines, Unity Catalog resources, and CI/CD automation.
• Develop governed data platforms and pipelines that improve the accuracy, consistency, accessibility, and trustworthiness of enterprise data assets.
• Create automated tools, reusable templates, and self-service patterns that speed up data development, ingestion, feature engineering, and consumption.
• Operate and improve the platform through performance monitoring, incident resolution, migrations, upgrades, observability, and cost optimization for long-term scalability and resilience.
• Partner with product owners, operations teams, architects, and delivery teams to identify common use cases, prioritize platform enhancements, and expand adoption.
• Integrate Databricks pipelines with enterprise governance, including metadata, lineage, classification, certification, ownership, and data-quality capabilities.
• Develop and curate governed data assets for AI and advanced analytics, including semantic models, APIs, Genie Spaces, and AI agents.
• Implement validation rules, monitoring, and remediation processes to improve the fitness and reliability of critical data assets.

What you bring

• Experience designing, building, and supporting production-grade Databricks, Delta Lake, and Apache Spark pipelines for both batch and streaming workloads.
• Experience developing Databricks Jobs including Lakeflow Declarative Pipelines and Structured Streaming, plus multi-task workflows with scheduling, parameters, dependencies, retries, notifications, and operational monitoring.
• Experience implementing Databricks infrastructure and environment-aware deployment automation using Terraform, Databricks Asset Bundles, or other Infrastructure as Code, with Git and CI/CD workflows.
• Experience implementing data governance and access controls with Unity Catalog, including catalogs, schemas, tables, views, external locations, storage credentials, lineage, and fine-grained permissions.
• Experience using Python and Spark diagnostic tools (job logs, Spark UI, query plans, partitioning, join optimization, and Adaptive Query Execution) to troubleshoot and optimize production workloads.
• Legal authorization to work permanently in the United States for any employer without requiring a visa transfer or visa sponsorship.

Technology focus

Databricks, Delta Lake, Apache Spark, Lakeflow Declarative Pipelines, Databricks Jobs, Auto Loader, Unity Catalog, CI/CD, Terraform, Databricks Asset Bundles, Git, Python, Structured Streaming, Adaptive Query Execution, Apache Hudi, Apache Iceberg, AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, Amazon S3, Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2, OneLake, Google Cloud Storage, semantic models, Genie Spaces, AI agents, APIs

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision
• Flexible spending and health savings accounts
• Life insurance, AD&D, disability
• Retirement
• Paid vacation/time off
• Educational assistance
• May also include infertility assistance, paid parental leave, and adoption assistance

How Georgia-Pacific supports your growth

Georgia-Pacific values diversity of thought, perspectives, aptitudes, experiences, and backgrounds. The company is Military Ready and a Second Chance employer.

Georgia-Pacific and its subsidiaries are among the world’s leading manufacturers and marketers of bath tissue, paper towels and napkins, tableware, paper-based packaging, cellulose, specialty fibers, and building products. Our products are part of everyday life for people around the world.