Databricks Senior Solutions Architect
Hiflylabs, a leading European data consultancy with 250+ experts, is looking for a Databricks Senior Solutions Architect. In this senior customer-facing remote role you will shape the future of big data for top Fortune 500 companies, assisting customers weekly with architecture, design, and implementation while aligning their technical roadmap with the expansion of the Databricks platform. The position requires extensive Apache Spark expertise, significant time zone overlap with clients, and broad experience in big data solution architecture.
Responsibilities
- ▹Provide technical leadership post-sales, guiding 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, aligned 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 (hackathons, conference presentations, etc.)
Requirements
- ▹Hands-on 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 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 (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
- ▹Familiarity with development tools for CI/CD, unit and integration testing, automation and orchestration, REST APIs, 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
- ▹Passion for learning new technologies and ensuring customer success
- ▹Significant time zone overlap with the clients
Nice to have
- ▹Experience in Data Science/ML Engineering, including model selection, model lifecycle, hyper-parameter tuning, model serving, and deep learning, using tools like MLflow
Soft skills
What we offer
- ▹Remote role (with possible rare exceptions agreed in due time)
- ▹Diverse projects with something new in each assignment
- ▹Empowerment and trust-based culture
- ▹Flexible ways of working, with an office and community space on Bartók Béla Road
- ▹Healthy work/life balance, no pointless meetings or unnecessary administration
- ▹Mentoring from your first day, plus ongoing learning and internal training programs
- ▹Learning and development opportunities
- ▹Supportive corporate culture built on camaraderie, mutual support, and respect
About the company
Hiflylabs is a leading European data consultancy competency center with over 250 experts and two decades of experience in Data & Analytics, serving clients in Europe and North America. The company builds cloud data platforms and data warehouses, performs data analysis and visualization, applies data science to business problems, and consults on data management.