Senior Data Platform Engineer

OVERVIEW Reporting to the VP, Technical Operations, the Senior Data Platform Engineer is a senior, hands-on individual contributor on our Engineering, Data Platform team. This is a full-time, remote role open to candidates based in the United States or Canada, with no direct reports. Store

Force helps specialty retailers run their stores, from workforce scheduling to performance analytics, across tens of thousands of locations worldwide. We are building a new data platform on Azure Databricks that turns the operational data behind those stores into governed metrics, embedded analytics, and AI-driven insight for our customers. As a Senior Data Platform Engineer, you will build, run, and scale that platform: Spark and Delta Lake pipelines from our multi-tenant SQL Server estate, Unity Catalog governance with a shared semantic layer, and the analytics agent on top.

You will work in a small platform team, alongside an implementation partner during the initial build, and own the platform’s growth from the first customers to the full base. WHAT YOU'LL DO 1. Lakehouse Engineering & Data Pipelines Build and run the lakehouse on Azure Databricks, including change tracking and change data capture (CDC) ingestion from SQL Server through Lakeflow Connect.

Develop Spark and Delta Lake transformations in Lakeflow Spark Declarative Pipelines and jobs, along with orchestration and serving layers. Implement and maintain the medallion and dimensional data model in Delta Lake. Tune Spark jobs, P