Internal Audit - Lead Data Engineer

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POSITION SUMMARY
The Internal Audit Data Analytics team is seeking an experienced Databricks Data Engineer Lead to own the technical direction and delivery of Internal Audit's Databricks-based analytics environment with strong experience integrating data from SAP ECC or SAP S/4HANA .This role leads the design and implementation of scalable, governed data pipelines and lakehouse solutions that enable stand-alone audits, continuous auditing, and enterprise risk monitoring across the organization.
Reporting to the Data Analytics Sr. Manager - Internal Audit, the Data Engineer Lead is accountable for ensuring reliable ingestion, data quality, audit-ready lineage, and operational excellence of Internal Audit datasets and pipelines. The role partners with auditors, analysts, IT teams, and business stakeholders to deliver governed, reusable datasets that reduce manual effort and improve audit coverage and timeliness.
This is a hands-on engineering leadership role requiring deep expertise in Databricks, Spark, Delta Lake, and cloud data engineering, plus the ability to lead delivery planning, architecture decisions, design reviews, and mentoring across the team.
PRIMARY DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Technical Leadership, Architecture & Roadmap Ownership

• Own and evolve the data engineering roadmap for Internal Audit's Databricks lakehouse, including standards for ingestion patterns, data modeling, governance, and operational reliability.
• Build and manage scalable ETL/ELT pipelines integrating data from SAP ECC or SAP S/4HANA
• Lead architecture and design reviews for new pipelines and enhancements; ensure alignment to engineering standards, maintainability, cost efficiency, and audit requirements.

Delivery Leadership & Project / Program Management

• Lead end-to-end delivery for priority initiatives by translating business/audit needs into an executable delivery plan (scope, milestones, dependencies, and resourcing).
• Coordinate execution across offshore resources and onshore teams to manage work intake, backlog and prioritization to ensure delivery of reusable, certified datasets and reliable pipelines supporting audits and risk monitoring.
• Proactively identify delivery risks (technical, data availability, access constraints, performance, upstream system changes) and drive mitigation plans.

Data Engineering & Platform Build

• Design, build, and maintain large-scale, fault-tolerant pipelines using Python/PySpark, Spark SQL, Databricks, Delta Lake, and orchestration tools (Databricks Jobs, ADF, Airflow).
• Lead implementation of ingestion patterns across files, databases, APIs, including streaming pipelines (Structured Streaming).
• Own implementation of CDC, incremental loads, and full refresh patterns; manage schema evolution and reconciliation for high-confidence audit datasets.
• Own curated lakehouse modeling (bronze/silver/gold) and publishing datasets for BI/analytics consumption.
• Drive performance and cost optimization for production workloads (partitioning, Z-ORDER, file sizing, caching strategies, cluster policies, job tuning).

Data Quality, Monitoring, Governance & Auditability

• Establish and enforce data quality standards and implement automated checks, anomaly detection routines, monitoring and alerting aligned to SLAs.
• Establish repeatable processes for lineage documentation, validation, reconciliation, and test coverage; ensure pipeline versioning and evidence is maintained for auditability.
• Implement scalable frameworks for metadata management and schema validation to support reliable and governed operations.

Audit Collaboration & Stakeholder Leadership

• Serve as the lead SME for Internal Audit on data engineering capabilities, data availability  Serve as the primary SME for data engineering within Internal Audit-guiding stakeholders on data availability, structures, pipeline behavior, and limitations.
• Partner with auditors/analysts to define requirements and deliver reusable datasets that accelerate audit execution and continuous monitoring.
• Collaborate with IT and business data owners to resolve access, upstream data issues, and changes that affect pipeline stability and audit outcomes.

Mentorship, Standards & Team Enablement

• Establish consistency in engineering practices: code review standards, documentation requirements, development patterns, testing discipline, and CI/CD expectations.
• Mentor and coach engineers and analysts on Databricks engineering practices, performance tuning, and production readiness expectations.
• Contribute to hiring/interview loops and onboarding by defining technical screens, building onboarding guides, and promoting best practices across the team

EDUCATION AND EDUCATIONAL REQUIREMENTS

• Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, Data Engineering, Information Systems, Analytics, or related discipline (or equivalent work experience).

REQUIRED EXPERIENCE

• 8+ years of relevant experience (data engineering, analytics engineering, platform engineering), with 5+ years hands-on engineering in Databricks / Spark production environments & a team handling experience of 3+ years.
• Hands‑on experience with SAP ECC or SAP S/4HANA data extraction and processing.
• Demonstrated ownership of end-to-end data pipelines and lakehouse implementations (ingestion → transformation/modeling → publishing → monitoring/operations).
• Proven experience acting as a technical lead, including architecture decisions, design reviews, mentoring, and delivery leadership across multiple initiatives.

REQUIRED TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Deep proficiency in Python, PySpark/Spark, and SQL, including performance tuning practices and understanding of Spark execution concepts.
• Strong experience implementing Delta Lake patterns: table design, upserts/merge logic, schema enforcement/evolution, incremental processing, and optimization strategies.
• Experience with orchestration tools and production scheduling (e.g., Azure Data Factory, Airflow, Databricks Jobs).
• Experience with data quality, monitoring, and alerting patterns that support reliable, SLA-driven operations.
• Strong engineering discipline: version control, CI/CD practices, and documentation/runbook creation.

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE / NICE TO HAVE

• Azure data ecosystem experience (e.g., ADLS, ADF, key enterprise patterns) and experience operating governed platforms in regulated environments.
• Experience building semantic/consumption layers and enabling BI/analytics usage patterns.
• Experience working effectively with US-based onshore stakeholders and offshore delivery teams.

PREFERRED CERTIFICATIONS

• Databricks Data Engineer (Associate / Professional).
• Microsoft Azure Data Engineer (or equivalent cloud data engineering certification).

CORE BEHAVIORAL COMPETENCIES

• Ownership & accountability; ability to make decisions and drive outcomes.
• Strong communication (technical and non-technical), stakeholder influence, prioritization, and execution under ambiguity.
• Coaching and mentorship mindset; raises the engineering bar through standards and examples.

What Cencora offers
Benefit offerings outside the US may vary by country and will be aligned to local market practice. The eligibility and effective date may differ for some benefits and for team members covered under collective bargaining agreements.
Full time
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