Senior Lead Data & AI Engineer

Responsibilities

• Architect and deploy Delta Live Tables and Lakeflow jobs on Databricks to automate data processing, AI pipelines, and agent data refresh cycles.
• Leverage Databricks Workflows and Job Orchestration to schedule and monitor AI agent deployments across multiple business workflows.
• Integrate Lakeflow for real-time data stream processing, ensuring AI agents are updated and responsive to live data.
• Ensure seamless orchestration between AI models and data pipelines, using event-driven architectures for real-time inference and deployment.
• Implement and orchestrate AI agents using frameworks such as Agentic systems, AgentOps tooling, and solutions like Agents on Databricks (Agent-bricks).
• Hands-on experience deploying AI agents using RAG, Graph RAG, MCP-enabled integrations, and agent orchestration frameworks such as AgentOps, AgentBricks, LangGraph, or cloud-native orchestration services.
• Manage AI agent lifecycles, monitoring, and scaling using tools like SageMaker, Bedrock, or AI orchestration frameworks on AWS.
• Ensure robust data governance, metadata management, and AI observability through Unity Catalog, AWS Glue, or custom metadata layers.
• Design for scalability and modularity, ensuring AI agents are reusable across multiple business processes.

Requirements

• 9-12+ years in data engineering, specializing in AI deployment within cloud ecosystems (Databricks, AWS).
• Hands-on experience deploying AI agents using frameworks like RAG, graph RAG, and orchestrating agents (AgentOps, Agent-bricks, etc.).
• Proficient in AWS AI/ML services (SageMaker, Bedrock) and orchestration tools (MWAA, Step Functions).
• Strong knowledge of lakehouse architecture, Unity Catalog, and data modeling best practices.
• Deep experience in data orchestration, monitoring, and scalable AI-driven workflows.
• Special Factors
• Sponsorship
• Vanguard is not offering visa sponsorship for this position.
• About Vanguard
• At Vanguard, we don't just have a mission-we're on a mission.
• To work for the long-term financial wellbeing of our clients. To lead through product and services that transform our clients' lives. To learn and develop our skills as individuals and as a team. From Malvern to Melbourne, our mission drives us forward and inspires us to be our best.
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