Internal Audit - Data Engineer III

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POSITION SUMMARY
The Internal Audit Data Analytics team is seeking experienced Data Engineer to support the build-out and ongoing enhancement of Internal Audit's Databricks-based analytics environment. This role will focus on designing, building, and maintaining scalable data pipelines and data lake solutions used to support stand-alone audits, continuous auditing, and risk monitoring initiatives across the enterprise.
Reporting to the Data Analytics Sr. Manager - Internal Audit, the Data Engineers will play a critical role in enabling high-quality, governed, and automated data flows into Internal Audit's Databricks cube. This position will partner closely with auditors, data analysts, IT organization, and business stakeholders to ensure reliable data ingestion, data quality, and availability of analytical datasets for use in audit execution, risk assessments, and strategic data-driven initiatives.
This is a hands-on engineering role requiring deep technical expertise in Databricks, cloud platforms (Azure preferred), data modeling, ETL/ELT design, and development of scalable data engineering solutions.
PRIMARY DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Data Engineering & Pipeline Development

• Design, build, and maintain large-scale, fault-tolerant data pipelines using Python/PySpark, Databricks, Delta Lake, and orchestration tools (e.g., Airflow, Azure Data Factory).
• Develop and optimize ETL/ELT workflows to support ingestion, transformation, and modeling of large datasets into a Lakehouse using Delta Lake: batch ingestion from files, databases, APIs; streaming using Structured Streaming; handling semi-structured data (JSON, Parquet, Avro); ELT patterns using Spark SQL / PySpark; Incremental processing patterns; Databricks Jobs; External orchestrators (ADF, Airflow, etc.)
• Hands-on experience with SAP ECC or SAP S/4HANA data extraction and processing
• Implement CDC, incremental loads, and full refresh patterns; handle schema evolution and data reconciliation.
• Develop and maintain curated data models (bronze/silver/gold) and support BI/analytics consumption.
• Optimize performance and cost (partitioning, Z-ORDER, file sizing, caching, cluster policies, job tuning).
• Implement scalable data lake and analytical platform architectures on Azure, ensuring security, governance, and cost efficiency.
• Automate repeatable ingestion processes using infrastructure as code (IaC) and Continuous Integration (CI)/Continuous Delivery (CD) deployment methodologies.
• Develop robust data models and semantic layers to facilitate analytical consumption by auditors and Data Analytics teammates.

Data Quality, Monitoring & Governance

• Create and manage data quality checks, anomaly detection routines, and automated alerting to ensure accuracy and integrity of audit datasets, and SLA-driven operations.
• Establish repeatable processes for documenting data lineage, validation, reconciliation, and test coverage.
• Implement scalable frameworks for metadata management, schema validation, and versioning of data pipelines.

Audit Collaboration & Analytics Support

• Support IA audit execution by enabling access to clean, reliable, and well-documented datasets.
• Provide SME-level guidance on data availability, data structures, pipeline behavior, and data limitations.

Standards, Innovation & Best Practices

• Establish consistency in design patterns, coding approaches, documentation, and engineering standards.
• Identify opportunities to modernize or optimize existing pipelines, architecture, or data processing patterns.
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of the Internal Audit analytics program through automation, performance tuning, and new capability development.
• Create and maintain technical documentation, runbooks, and onboarding guides.
• Participate in code reviews and promote engineering best practices (testing, CI/CD, version control).

EXPERIENCE AND EDUCATIONAL REQUIREMENTS

• Bachelor's or Masters degree in Computer Science, Data Engineering, Information Systems, Analytics, or related discipline; equivalent work experience considered.
• Minimum 3-5 years of relevant experience required; 5-7 years preferred including 2-4 years of hands-on Data Engineering experience with Databricks.
• Build and manage scalable ETL/ELT pipelines integrating data from SAP ECC or SAP S/4HANA.
• Deep expertise working with Databricks, including cluster design, notebook development, Spark optimization, Delta Lake, Delta Live Tables, Unity Catalog (Centralized permissions, Data lineage, Table & schema access controls), and data governance/access controls.
• Strong proficiency in Python, PySpark/Spark, and SQL; understanding of Spark architecture: Driver, Executors, Stages, Tasks and Shuffle, portioning, caching. Performance tuning and optimization on large datasets.
• Experience designing and managing large-scale data ingestion from complex enterprise systems (ERP, financial systems, operational platforms).
• Hands-on experience with Azure (preferred), Amazon Web Services (AWS), or Google Cloud Platform (GCP) cloud services.
• Solid understanding of data warehousing/Lake house concepts, Delta Lake (Delta Lake table design, ACID transactions, schema enforcement & evolution, time travel, handling late arriving data) and medallion architecture.
• Experience in creating and supporting end-to-end ETL/ELT workflows.
• Experience handling semi-structured data (JSON, Parquet, Avro).
• Prior experience developing semantic models for analytics consumption.
• Strong experience with data quality frameworks, validation routines, and monitoring strategies.
• Experience with Git-based development and CI/CD practices.
• Experience with cloud storage and services (Azure Data Lake Storage).
• Experience with data integration tools (e.g., Fivetran, ADF, etc).
• Experience collaborating with US-based onshore teams is strongly preferred.
• Databricks Data Engineer Professional or Associate Certification is preferred.
• Azure Data Engineer Associate (DP-203) Certification is preferred

What Cencora offers
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