Databricks Senior Solutions Architect _ Europe-Based Contractor

Stack

Responsibilities

• ▹Provide technical leadership post-sales to guide strategic customers in designing and implementing big data projects, from architectural design to data engineering and model deployment
• ▹Identify and drive new initiatives that help customers turn their data into actionable business value, aligning these initiatives with their business goals
• ▹Architect production-level workloads, including performance testing and optimization of end-to-end pipeline loads
• ▹Deliver tutorials and training sessions to promote community adoption (including hackathons, conference presentations, etc.)

Requirements

• ▹Hands-on and technical expertise with Apache Spark
• ▹Hands-on experience with Databricks over the course of several large-scale projects
• ▹Databricks Certified Data Engineer Professional certification
• ▹Proven experience in designing and implementing big data technologies, including Hadoop, NoSQL, MPP, OLTP, OLAP
• ▹Over 5 years of experience working as a Software Engineer or Data Engineer, including query tuning, performance tuning, troubleshooting, and debugging Spark and/or other big data solutions
• ▹Proficiency in programming with Python, Scala, or Java
• ▹Experience designing and using solutions on cloud infrastructure and services, such as AWS, Azure, or GCP
• ▹Familiarity with Development Tools for CI/CD, Unit and Integration testing, Automation and Orchestration, REST API, BI tools, and SQL Interfaces (e.g., Jenkins)
• ▹Excellent communication skills and comfort in presenting to strategic stakeholders and leadership
• ▹Experience in customer-facing roles such as pre-sales, post-sales, technical architecture guidance, or consulting
• ▹Passion for learning new technologies and ensuring customer success

Nice to have

• ▹Desired experience in Data Science/ML Engineering, including model selection, model lifecycle, hyper-parameter tuning, model serving, deep learning, using tools like MLFlow

Soft skills

What we offer

• ▹Diverse projects - something new in each assignment, technical or business side
• ▹Empowerment - trust as a cornerstone of the culture
• ▹Flexible ways of working
• ▹Balanced life, healthy work/life balance
• ▹Mentoring from your first day
• ▹Learning & development opportunities
• ▹Supportive corporate culture

About the company

Hiflylabs is a leading Data Consultancy Agency competency center in Europe with a staff of over 250 experts. With two decades of experience in Data & Analytics, they serve clients in Europe and North America, building cloud data platforms and data warehouses, doing data analysis and visualization, applying data science to business problems, and consulting on data management.