Data Engineering Manager (Databricks)

Company Description

Blend is a premier AI services provider, committed to co-creating meaningful impact for its clients through the power of data science, AI, technology, and people. With a mission to fuel bold visions, Blend tackles significant challenges by seamlessly aligning human expertise with artificial intelligence. The company is dedicated to unlocking value and fostering innovation for its clients by harnessing world-class people and data-driven strategy. We believe that the power of people and AI can have a meaningful impact on your world, creating more fulfilling work and projects for our people and clients. For more information, visit www.blend360.com

We are seeking a Data Engineering Manager to contribute to our next level of growth and expansion.

Job Description

What is this position about?

• Design, build, and maintain semantic layers and KPI models using Databricks Metric Views to underpin governed executive scorecards and AI-powered analytical solutions.

• Work directly with business owners to define, validate, and translate KPI requirements into reusable data models and business logic.

• Profile source data quality, ownership, data grain, and reconciliation requirements across enterprise source systems.

• Design and implement data integration and transformation pipelines that prepare enterprise data for AI-generated narratives and conversational analytics.

• Define conformed dimensions and market-specific data variations to support multi-market reporting and analytics.

• Collaborate closely with Business Analysts and AI Engineers to align KPI definitions with underlying data structures and business ontologies.

• Establish and enforce data quality, validation, and monitoring frameworks across all data assets feeding analytical applications.

• Implement security, access control, and governance practices aligned with platform and AI governance standards.

• Lead technical documentation and knowledge transfer initiatives at the conclusion of each delivery phase.

• Support production readiness assessments and oversee the deployment of solutions to production environments.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in Data Engineering, with demonstrated expertise in semantic layer and KPI/metric modeling.

• Strong hands-on experience building and maintaining Databricks Metric Views or equivalent semantic/metric layer tooling.

• Advanced proficiency in SQL and Python for data processing, transformation, and pipeline development.

• Solid understanding of cloud data platforms, specifically Azure Databricks, and modern ELT/ETL tooling.

• Demonstrated expertise in data modeling techniques, conformed dimensions, and Medallion-style architectures.

• Experience profiling data quality, lineage, and reconciliation across multiple source systems.

• Comfort working directly with business stakeholders to gather, validate, and implement KPI requirements.

• Understanding of business ontology and semantic modeling concepts.

• Proficiency with Git version control and collaborative development practices.

• Knowledge of how data engineering supports AI/LLM-based analytics, including feature preparation for narrative generation and conversational analytics.

• Experience with FMCG/CPG or retail data ecosystems (POS, SKU, category, and market performance datasets) is a plus.

What about languages?

English: Advanced (required for effective communication with global teams)

How much experience must I have?

7+ years of experience in Data Engineering or related disciplines such as Data Architecture or Analytics Engineering, with demonstrated expertise in semantic modeling, KPI development, and multi-source data integration.

Additional Information

Our Perks and Benefits:

Every day lunches! (headquarters):

• Vegetarian, vegan, gluten and sugar free options.

• Gourmet meals every Friday with our on-site chef!

⚖️ Flexible working options to help you strike the right balance.

💻 All the equipment you need to harness your talent (Macbook and accessories).

🍪 Snacks and beverages available everyday (headquarters).

🎉 After office events, football, tennis and game nights (headquarters).

⚽ Everyone is welcome to join our football league every Wednesday's and Friday's.

🏆 Challenge your teammates to a pool game and win the office's trophy!

🎾 Tennis courts available for friendly matches.

🎲 Not a sports person? Don't worry, we also have chess championships, game and music nights for you to join!

📚 Learning opportunities:

• AWS Certifications (we are AWS Partners).

• Study plans, courses and other certifications.

• English Lessons.

• Learn from your teammates on our Tech Tuesdays!

💡 Mentoring and Development opportunities to shape your career path.

🎁 Anniversary and birthday gifts.

📍 Great location and even greater teammates!

So what are the next steps? Our team is eager to learn about you! Send us your resume or LinkedIn profile below and we'll explore working together!