Lead API Developer & Databricks Admin – Project Delivery Specialist
Engineering and Product | Software Engineering
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
Position Summary
Are you an experienced, passionate pioneer in technology who wants to work in a collaborative environment? As an experienced Lead API Developer & Databricks Admin you will have the ability to share new ideas and collaborate on projects as a consultant without the extensive demands of travel. If so, consider an opportunity with Deloitte under our Project Delivery Talent Model. Project Delivery Model (PDM) is a talent model that is tailored specifically for long-term, onsite client service delivery.
Work you’ll do/Responsibilities
- Lead design and development of domain and integration APIs (e.g., RESTful APIs (Representational State Transfer), GraphQL, event-driven patterns where applicable).
- Produce and maintain API contracts (e.g., OpenAPI (OpenAPI Specification)/Swagger), versioning strategy, and consumer onboarding documentation.
- Implement security patterns: OAuth 2.0 (Open Authorization), OpenID Connect (OIDC), JSON Web Tokens (JWT), mutual Transport Layer Security (mTLS) where required, secrets management, and authorization controls.
- Build reliability and performance features: idempotency, retries/timeouts, rate limiting, caching, circuit breakers, and backward compatibility.
- Establish observability: structured logs, metrics, tracing, dashboards, and service level objectives (SLOs) aligned to business outcomes.
- Drive CI/CD (continuous integration/continuous delivery), automated testing (unit/integration/contract), and code quality practices.
- Administer Databricks workspaces: cluster policies, pools, job/workflow standards, workspace configuration, and operational runbooks.
- Own identity, access, and governance: role-based access control (RBAC), group/role management, Unity Catalog (or equivalent) permissions, auditing, and least-privilege design.
- Manage platform reliability: monitoring/alerting, incident triage, root cause analysis (RCA), and problem management to reduce recurring issues.
- Optimize performance and cost: cluster sizing/autoscaling standards, job tuning guidance, workload isolation, usage reporting, and chargeback/showback inputs if applicable.
- Support data platform hygiene: library/runtime management, upgrade planning, operational readiness for quarterly releases, and coordination with cloud/platform teams.
- Partner with data engineering to enforce best practices for Delta Lake (e.g., partitioning, file sizing, Z-ORDER where applicable) and operational quality gates.
- Communicate regularly with Engagement Managers (Directors), project team members, and representatives from various functional and / or technical teams, including escalating any matters that require additional attention and consideration from engagement management
- Independently and collaboratively lead client engagement workstreams focused on improvement, optimization, and transformation of processes including implementing leading practice workflows, addressing deficits in quality, and driving operational outcomes
The Team
Our Deloitte Customer team empowers organizations to build deeper relationships with customers through innovative strategies, advanced analytics, Generative AI, transformative technologies, and creative design. We can enhance customer experiences and drive sustained growth and customer value creation and capture, through customer and commercial strategies, digital products and innovation, marketing, commerce, sales, and service. We are a team of strategists, data scientists, operators, creatives, designers, engineers, and architects. Our team balances business strategy, technology, creativity, and ongoing managed services to solve the biggest problems that affect customers, partners, constituents, and the workforce.
Our Digital Foundry & Operations works with the Customer group to bring a flexible capability and fluid capacity model to the delivery of small technology projects and enhancements.
Qualifications
Required
7+ years of software engineering experience with significant API/service development ownership.
3+ years administering or operating Databricks in production (workspace governance, access controls, cluster/job policies, and operational support).
Strong experience with one backend stack (e.g., Java/Spring, .NET, Node.js, Python) and microservices/service-based architecture.
Solid understanding of cloud security fundamentals (identity, networking basics, secrets, encryption) and production operations practices (incident/problem/change).
Proven ability to lead technical design, mentor others, and communicate clearly with technical and non-technical stakeholders
Bachelor's degree, preferably in Computer Science, Information Technology, Computer Engineering, or related IT discipline; or equivalent experience
Limited immigration sponsorship may be available
Ability to travel 10%, on average, based on the work you do and the clients and industries/sectors you serve
Hybrid Role - 2 days on-site
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Requisition code: 356428
Job ID 356428