Databricks Senior Solutions Architect – Europe-Based Contractor

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Responsibilities

• ▹Assist customers with architecture, design, and implementation, aligning their technical roadmap with expansion of the Databricks platform
• ▹Identify and drive new initiatives that help customers turn their data into actionable business value
• ▹Architect production-level workloads, including performance testing and optimization of end-to-end pipeline loads
• ▹Deliver tutorials and training sessions to promote community adoption (hackathons, conference presentations)

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 designing and implementing big data technologies, including Hadoop, NoSQL, MPP, OLTP, OLAP
• ▹Over 5 years of experience as a Software Engineer or Data Engineer, including query tuning, performance tuning, troubleshooting, and debugging
• ▹Proficiency in Python, Scala, or Java
• ▹Experience designing solutions on cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
• ▹Familiarity with CI/CD, unit and integration testing, automation and orchestration, REST API, BI tools, and SQL interfaces (e.g. Jenkins)
• ▹Excellent communication skills and comfort presenting to strategic stakeholders and leadership
• ▹Experience in customer-facing roles such as pre-sales, post-sales, technical architecture guidance, or consulting

Nice to have

• ▹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 with Fortune 500 clients
• ▹Flexible ways of working, autonomy over how you work
• ▹Office on Bartók Béla Road that also serves as a community space
• ▹Focus on a balanced work/life approach

About the company

Hiflylabs is a consulting firm delivering data and technology solutions to clients across industries, including Databricks-based projects.