Responsibilities
- Assess legacy data and reporting workloads to identify where automation replaces manual effort.
- Lead the migration of Informatica-based data workloads to Databricks, ensuring performance, reliability, and data integrity
- Design and execute an automation-first modernization strategy for data pipelines, reporting systems, and analytics platforms.
- Apply tool-assisted and AI-assisted techniques to accelerate modernization while maintaining compliance and control.
- Build repeatable frameworks and patterns for: Data ingestion, transformation, and orchestration; Reporting and analytics modernization; Data validation, reconciliation, and quality controls.
- Establish governance to ensure modernization efforts are consistent, auditable, and scalable.
- Partner with distributed data teams to deploy and scale modernization patterns across environments.
- Provide hands-on technical leadership while remaining engaged in execution.
Required Experience
- 10+ years in data engineering and/or data architecture.
- Proven track record of modernizing large-scale, complex, legacy data and reporting environments.
- Hands-on experience migrating or modernizing Informatica-based data pipelines to modern platforms such as Databricks.
- Demonstrated use of automation frameworks, accelerators, or AI-assisted tools to compress delivery timelines.
- Hands-on experience with Azure, Cloudera, and Power BI.
- Strong experience designing and operating ETL/ELT pipelines and analytics layers.
- Deep understanding of data quality, lineage, reconciliation, and validation frameworks.
- Experience working in large-scale or regulated enterprise environments.
Preferred Experience
- Experience in payer, healthcare, or other regulated domains.
- Experience designing solutions that support multi-environment scalability.
- Exposure to GenAI tooling for code generation and automation.
- Experience as a technical thought leader for new platform initiatives.
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What We Do
Doran Jones Inc. (DJI) is the leading financial services Data Engineering and Application Development firm, specializing in Capital Markets, Risk, and Regulatory Compliance. We are US-based, helping our clients fill gaps in capacity and expertise, reduce risk, and accelerate change. Our leaders average over 25 years of experience in Financial Services and Technology. DJI is repeatedly engaged by the largest and most complex clients for our Agile transformation expertise and practical understanding of the critical relationship between data, architecture, and application development.
DJI has a mission to place more people from non-traditional backgrounds into sustainable technology careers. Through partnerships with non-profit technology programs in underserved communities and Veteran organizations, candidates transition from tech training programs into real IT careers at DJI. Our unique recruitment policy allows us to create exceptional teams, bringing a broad spectrum of experience to our company and creating anything but a traditional consulting firm.
DJI is a wholly-owned subsidiary of McLaren Strategic Ventures, a private equity firm, that invests in start-ups and scale-ups. They provide a full range of highly trusted domain consulting, advisory services, and innovative technologies globally. Doran Jones is able to offer a broad range of technology, deeper AI and machine learning tools, data intelligence, alternative resourcing capabilities, and capital access to invest and digitize at scale. Our clients benefit from this unique portfolio allowing them to accelerate the pace of their own digital transformations through innovative products and services designed around industry-wide issues.
