Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. MGM Resorts International is a leading entertainment and hospitality company seeking a Staff Commercial Data Engineer to enhance their Marketing and Revenue Management data platforms. The role involves defining the architectural direction of the data ecosystem, ensuring reliability and governance standards, and mentoring engineering teams to create high-quality data products.
Responsibilities
- Serve as the architectural owner for Marketing and Revenue Management data models, metric definitions, and semantic consistency across commercial domains
- Design and maintain certified, curated datasets aligned to business logic and executive reporting standards
- Architect and optimize high-scale Lakehouse solutions for performance, governance, cost, and lineage
- Define conventions for partitioning, Z-ordering, file compaction, cluster sizing, and workload orchestration
- Build reusable ingestion, validation, and orchestration frameworks
- Establish observability standards including freshness SLAs, anomaly detection, and schema drift monitoring
- Implement automated quality gates, impact analysis, and self-healing workflows
- Own performance tuning strategies across batch, streaming, and high-volume analytics workloads
- Lead high-severity incident response and drive long-term remediation strategies
- Mentor engineers and influence cross-functional platform modernization initiatives
Skills
- 7+ years of prior relevant experience in data engineering, data platform, or analytics engineering roles
- 5+ years of prior relevant hands-on experience in Databricks or equivalent Spark environments
- Expertise in Databricks and Lakehouse architecture
- Strong coding proficiency in Python, PySpark, and SQL
- Experience with Unity Catalog governance and permissions
- Proven implementation of data quality frameworks and observability standards
- Deep knowledge of Delta Lake internals and distributed data processing
- Experience defining SLAs, anomaly detection, and automated monitoring frameworks
- Expertise in performance tuning, workload isolation, partitioning strategies, and compute optimization
- Strong understanding of modeling patterns for analytics and operational systems
- Experience building production-grade pipelines, reusable libraries, modular code standards, version control, and automated testing
- Familiarity with Terraform, Airflow, and Databricks Workflows
- Ability to translate complex technical architecture into clear, business-aligned narratives
- Domain experience in Gaming & Hospitality Operations, Loyalty & Customer Engagement, or Marketing & Commercial Analytics preferred
Benefits
- Prioritize your wellness, access programs crafted to nurture your mental and physical health.
- Enjoy unbeatable discounts on hotel stays, dining, retail, entertainment, and exclusive partner perks for travel, tech, and beyond!
- Savor delicious meals for free in our employee dining room.
- Park with ease 6whether you're on or off shift, it's free!
- From healthcare to financial support and generous time-off options, we9ve got you covered.
- Elevate your career with development programs, connect through networking events, and make a difference with community volunteer opportunities.
- This position is eligible to participate in the Company9s incentive plan.
- Employees in this position are eligible to participate in medical, dental, vision, life insurance, 401(k) plans, and time off plans. Specific program offerings vary by eligibility factors such as geographic location, employment status, and union membership.
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