Orion Innovation is a premier, award-winning, global business and technology services firm. Orion delivers game-changing business transformation and product development rooted in digital strategy, experience design, and engineering, with a unique combination of agility, scale, and maturity. We work with a wide range of clients across many industries including financial services, professional services, telecommunications and media, consumer products, automotive, industrial automation, professional sports and entertainment, life sciences, ecommerce, and education.
Role Summary:
We are seeking a Technical ETL Lead to design, build, and manage scalable data pipelines and modern data platforms using Databricks and cloud-based data lakes. This role will play a critical part in delivering data solutions that support analytics, reporting, and AI initiatives.
Key Responsibilities
- Data Engineering Leadership
- Lead design and implementation of ETL/ELT pipelines on cloud platforms
- Drive best practices for scalable, reliable, and high-performance data solutions
- Provide technical leadership and mentoring to data engineers
- Databricks & Data Platform Development
- Build and optimize data pipelines using Azure Databricks
- Design and manage Data Lake architectures (Lakehouse preferred)
- Develop reusable frameworks for ingestion, transformation, and orchestration
- Architecture & Design
- Define data models, integration patterns, and storage strategies
- Ensure data quality, governance, and security across pipelines
- Optimize performance and cost across large-scale data processing systems
- Collaboration & Delivery
- Work with business, analytics, and application teams to define data requirements
- Partner with cloud, DevOps, and architecture teams for platform integration
- Automation & AI Enablement
- Incorporate automation, AI/ML pipelines, and agentic workflows
- Build intelligent data pipelines with monitoring and self-healing capabilities
Experience:
- 8+ years in Data Engineering / ETL development
- 2–3+ years in a lead or senior technical role
Skills Required:
- Strong experience with:
- Azure Databricks (Spark, PySpark)
- Data Lakes (Azure Data Lake Storage)
- ETL/ELT frameworks and distributed data processing
- SQL, Python (preferred), and data modeling
- Cloud & Tools
- Azure ecosystem (ADF, Synapse, Databricks)
- CI/CD pipelines for data workflows
- Data governance and monitoring tools
- Soft Skills
- Strong problem-solving and communication skills
- Ability to translate business needs into technical solutions
Preferred Experience
- Large-scale enterprise data platform implementation
- Experience with real-time streaming (Kafka/Event Hub)
- Familiarity with AI/ML pipelines and advanced analytics
- Experience in regulated/audit environments
Key Differentiator:
- Ability to build modern, AI-enabled data platforms with strong automation and scalability
Orion is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, age, national origin, citizenship status, disability status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
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Skills Required
- 8+ years in Data Engineering / ETL development
- 2-3+ years in a lead or senior technical role
- Strong experience with Azure Databricks (Spark, PySpark)
- Experience with Data Lakes (Azure Data Lake Storage)
- SQL and Python experience
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Orion highlights health and well-being initiatives such as fitness, mindfulness, and flexibility/remote options, reinforced by recognition like Cigna’s Healthy Workforce Designation. Flexibility via hybrid/remote work is positioned as a consistent part of the overall rewards experience.
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Career-Linked Recognition & Rewards — Performance-linked outcomes are implied through mentions that hikes can be good when performance is demonstrated. Learning and development programs are also emphasized as part of the broader value proposition tied to career growth.
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What We Do
Orion is a leading digital transformation and product development services firm. Headquartered in Edison, NJ, we have a global team of 6,200+ associates, with engineers in 14 major delivery centers across North America, Europe, Asia Pacific and Latin America. For over 25 years, Orion has been solving complex business problems for our clients. Our transformative business solutions are rooted in digital strategy, experience design, and engineering, empowering our clients to operate with agility at scale. Our mission is to serve as an agile and trusted partner for business transformation initiatives, providing deep emerging technology, experience design, and domain expertise. Our business has more than tripled over the last three years. We have grown aggressively both organically and inorganically, adding new clients, complementary skills, domain expertise, and strengthening our global footprint.
