Salt Lake City, UT

Salary
$79,600–$139,300from the description
Posted
Jul 21, 2026
Location
Salt Lake City, UT
Last confirmed open
Jul 22, 2026

What this job asks for AI summary

A senior-level data engineering role focused on designing and maintaining large-scale cloud data platforms for commercial and public sector clients. Day-to-day work centers on building ETL/ELT pipelines, streaming integrations, and data models using Databricks, Apache Spark, Azure Data Factory, Kafka, and related tools. The position also involves mentoring junior engineers and collaborating with architects and business stakeholders in an onsite, Agile setting.

Senior level · 6+ years · Salt Lake City, UT · Full-time

Must have (19)
DatabricksApache SparkPythonSQLScalaDelta LakeUnity CatalogDelta Live TablesDatabricks SQLMLflowAzure Data Factory, AWS or Google Cloud DataflowKafka, Google Pub Sub or Azure Event HubsAzure Data Lake Storage or GCPREST APIsJSONXMLSOAPGitLinux
Nice to have (5)
TerraformAzure DevOps, GitHub Actions, Jenkins or CircleciAzure Synapse AnalyticsMicrosoft FabricPower BI

“or” means any one of them counts — you don't need all of them.

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How this req sits in the market our data

Roughly 1 people in the Salt Lake City, UT area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (database administrators). range 1–1

Applicant volume Light — Few people clear these requirements, so an application that does clear them gets looked at. Worth applying to even if you miss a nice-to-have.

What gives you an edge
Unity Catalog2%Delta Live Tables2%Databricks SQL4%Delta Lake5%Apache Spark8%MLflow8%Scala9%Databricks10%SOAP10%

Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.

What won't set you apart
SQL90%Python51%Linux50%

Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.

What the occupation pays Median $138,735 (middle half $103,078–$138,735). This posting is about at that midpoint.

Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.

Why we read it this way (6)

The role sits at the boundary between 15-1243 (Database/Data Architects — pipeline and warehouse building, ETL, data modeling) and 15-1252 (Software Developers — writing and shipping code in Python/Scala/PySpark). The primary framing is enterprise data platform design and ETL/ELT engineering, which tips toward 15-1243, but the volume of application-code work (APIs, streaming, CI/CD) makes 15-1252 a genuine runner-up.

The degree requirement lists 'Bachelor's degree … or equivalent professional experience', so it is treated as no hard degree gate.

Terraform is explicitly marked 'preferred' in the JD ('Familiarity with … is preferred'); Azure DevOps/GitHub Actions is also marked 'preferred'.

The Desired Skills section (Azure Synapse Analytics, Microsoft Fabric, Power BI, data governance, MDM, DataOps/MLOps, financial/public sector experience) is listed under a clearly secondary 'Desired Skills' heading and is treated as preferred.

The '6+ years' figure appears with a double-asterisk in the original posting but no footnote text is visible; it is taken at face value as the minimum experience requirement.

The role is explicitly onsite at a client location in Salt Lake City, UT — not remote.

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