Senior Data Engineer, Agentic AI

Light & Wonder’s corporate team is comprised of incredible talent that works across the enterprise, defying boundaries to provide essential services in an extraordinary manner to ensure the success of the organization and the well-being of employees.

We are building a tight-knit, senior engineering group based in Austin, TX, tasked with creating the next generation of enterprise automation at Light & Wonder. Our mission is to design, deliver, and scale production-grade Agentic AI workflows that execute highly complex, meaningful tasks across the business.

We will operate like a high-functioning startup within the enterprise: we favor shipping over process, rigorous evaluation over opinions, and strategic platform investments that make every subsequent deployment faster. We are leaning heavily into the modern Microsoft ecosystem, anchoring our architecture on the newly GA Microsoft Agent Framework (.NET), Azure OpenAI, and an advanced data backend powered by Snowflake, Databricks, and Microsoft Fabric. If you want to build resilient, multi-agent systems at enterprise scale, this is the team.

Data engineering for Agentic AI requires a fundamental shift in mindset: your primary consumers are no longer human analysts reading dashboards, but autonomous agents making real-time decisions. As a Senior Data Engineer, you will design and build the robust, high-performance data surfaces, including APIs, semantic layers, and strongly typed contracts, that our multi-agent workflows rely on.

Leveraging Snowflake, Databricks, and Microsoft Fabric, you will go beyond standard ingestion and transformation. You will treat data quality, strict access scoping, and latency as critical production signals. You are responsible for ensuring that the foundation of our AI systems is fresh, secure, and structurally sound, preventing silent failures and enabling true, scalable enterprise automation.

• Design and construct ingestion, transformation, and serving layers utilizing Snowflake, Databricks, and Microsoft Fabric. 

• Model and expose strictly contracted, agent-consumable data surfaces, including APIs and semantic layers. 

• Instrument data quality as a first-class production signal to dynamically monitor freshness, completeness, and drift. 

• Partner closely with workflow engineers to optimize data abstractions and ensure highly efficient agent consumption. 

• Manage lineage and documentation to guarantee published data products are highly discoverable and safe to consume. 

• Collaborate with Security and Data Governance on data classification, masking, and Data Loss Prevention (DLP) strategies. 

• Build shared platform components, including scalable connectors, transformation libraries, and testing harnesses.

• 6+ years of data engineering experience, including at least 2 years on a cloud lakehouse or warehouse (Snowflake, Databricks, BigQuery, Redshift).

• Advanced SQL and strong Python (or Scala); comfortable writing production-grade ETL/ELT.

• Experience processing and transforming unstructured data (documents, text, logs) for AI consumption, including an understanding of chunking strategies and embedding models.

• Experience with orchestration (Airflow, dbt, Dagster, ADF) and batch + streaming patterns.

• Strong grasp of data modeling - dimensional, Data Vault, or entity-centric - and when each applies.

• Experience exposing data to downstream consumers via APIs or semantic layers.

• Hands-on experience with Microsoft Fabric (OneLake, Lakehouse, Warehouse, Data Factory, Real-Time Intelligence).

• Experience building vector stores, retrieval systems, or RAG pipelines in production.

• Familiarity with data contracts, data quality tooling (Great Expectations, Soda, Monte Carlo), and data catalogs (Purview, Collibra, Unity).

• Prior work in regulated environments (gaming, finance, healthcare) with PII and access-control requirements.

• Experience with change-data-capture and streaming ingestion (Event Hubs, Kafka, Debezium).

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Data Engineering, MIS, or equivalent experience.

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit, stand, walk, bend, use hands, operate a computer, and have specific vision abilities to include close and distance vision, and the ability to adjust focus while working with computer and business equipment. 

The work conditions are representative and typical of similar jobs in comparable organizations. Some domestic and international travel required.

This job description should not be interpreted as all-inclusive; it is intended to identify major responsibilities and requirements of the job. The employee in this position may be requested to perform other job-related tasks and responsibilities than those stated above.

Light & Wonder is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate against applicants due to race, color, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a veteran, and basis of disability or any other federal, state or local protected class. If you’d like more information about your equal employment opportunity rights as an applicant under the law, please click here for EEOC Poster.