About the Role
As a Senior Databricks Consulting Engineer, you will serve as a trusted technical advisor and strategic partner to enterprise customers, guiding them through data and AI transformation journeys by designing, implementing, and optimizing modern data platforms on Databricks.
Responsibilities
- Act as the primary technical advisor for strategic Databricks customers.
- Design and review scalable data, analytics, and AI architectures leveraging the Databricks Lakehouse Platform.
- Lead architecture workshops, solution design sessions, and technical roadmap discussions.
- Translate business requirements into technical solutions and implementation plans.
- Advise customers on platform modernization, cloud migration, data governance, and AI initiatives.
- Support the successful implementation and adoption of Databricks solutions.
- Review data engineering, analytics, machine learning, and GenAI workloads for scalability, performance, security, and cost optimization.
- Identify and resolve technical blockers during customer engagements.
- Drive architectural best practices for data pipelines, Lakehouse design, Unity Catalog, governance, and platform operations.
- Serve as a subject matter expert on Databricks capabilities and emerging data and AI technologies.
- Mentor customer teams and internal consultants on architecture patterns and best practices.
- Deliver executive presentations, technical workshops, and enablement sessions.
- Contribute to reusable assets, reference architectures, and practice development initiatives.
- Partner with sales and account teams during strategic customer engagements.
- Support technical discovery, solution positioning, and proposal development.
- Provide architecture guidance during pre-sales and proof-of-concept activities.
- Identify opportunities for platform expansion and increased customer value.
Requirements
- 7+ years of experience in data engineering, cloud architecture, analytics, or related fields.
- 3+ years working with Databricks in enterprise environments.
- Strong expertise in modern data platform architecture and cloud-native solutions.
- Hands-on experience designing and implementing Lakehouse architectures.
- Experience with at least one major cloud platform (Microsoft Azure preferred, AWS, or Google Cloud Platform).
- Experience engaging with executive stakeholders and technical leadership teams.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills in English.
- Must currently reside in Australia and possess the legal right to work in the country.
Skills
- Databricks Data Intelligence Platform
- Apache Spark
- Delta Lake
- Unity Catalog
- Data Governance & Security
- Data Warehousing and Lakehouse Design
- ETL/ELT Architectures
- Data Modeling
- Python
- SQL
- Spark
Location
- Australia
Work Type
- Remote-friendly
Experience Level
- Senior
Salary/Compensations
- Competitive compensation package
Benefits
- Continuous learning and certification support
- Flexible and remote-friendly working environment
- Collaborative, entrepreneurial, and international culture
About the Company
- Leading data and AI consultancy helping organizations accelerate digital transformation through modern data platforms, advanced analytics, and AI-driven solutions.
- Specializes in Big Data, Cloud, Streaming, IIoT, and Microservices.
- Established in 2010 with 8 offices across 10 countries.
- Trusted Databricks partner with a commitment to open source.
Equal Opportunity
- We evaluate candidates based on skills, experience, and business fit, and welcome applicants from all backgrounds.
