Databricks Data Architect
COMPANY OVERVIEW:
Our client is a leading operations management and analytics company that helps businesses enhance growth and profitability in the face of relentless competition and continuous disruption. Using a proprietary, award-winning platform, which integrates analytics, automation, benchmarking, BPO, consulting, industry best practices and technology platforms, they help companies improve global operations, enhance data-driven insights, increase customer satisfaction, and manage risk and compliance.
They serve the insurance, healthcare, banking and financial services, utilities, travel, transportation and logistics industries. The Analytics practice provides data-driven, action-oriented solutions to business problems through statistical data mining, cutting edge analytics techniques and a consultative approach. Leveraging proprietary methodology and best-of-breed technology, they take an industry-specific approach to transform clients’ decision making and embed analytics more deeply into their business processes. They have a global footprint of nearly 2,000 data scientists and analysts assist client organizations with complex risk minimization methods, advanced marketing, pricing and CRM strategies, internal cost analysis, and cost and resource optimization within the organization.
POSITION OVERVIEW:
The Databricks Data Architect will leverage their computer science and design skills to review and analyze the organization’s data infrastructure, plan future databases, and implement solutions to store and manage data for organizations and the users.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Lead and/or assist in designing and developing data systems, tailoring solutions to meet client specific requirements
- Design and implement databricks based solutions with a focus on distributed data processing , data partitioning and optimization for parallelism
- Engage with client to evaluate their current and future needs, crafting bespoke solution architectures and providing strategic recommendations
- Develop comprehensive architecture solution roadmaps integrating client business processes and technologies
- Define and enforce coding standards for ETL processes, ensuring maintainability, reusability, and adherence to best practices
- Architect and implement CI/CD pipelines for databricks notebooks and jobs, ensuring testing , versioning and deployment
- Disaster recovery strategies for databricks environments, ensuring data resilience and minimal downtime in case of failure
- Innovate and expand solution offerings to address data challenges
- Advise stakeholders on data cloud platform architecture optimization, focusing on performance
- Experienced with Scrum and Agile Methodologies to coordinate global delivery teams, run scrum ceremonies, manage backlog items, and handle escalations
- Integrate data across different systems and platforms
- Strong verbal and written communication skills to manage client discussions
PREFERRED PROFILE:
- 5+ years experience in architecture, design and implementation using databricks
- Experience in designing and implementing scalable, fault tolerant systems
- Deep understanding of one or more of the big data compute technologies such as databricks, snowflake
- Demonstrated experience with the deployment of databricks on cloud platforms , including advanced configurations
- In depth knowledge of spark internals, catalyst optimization, and databricks runtime environment
- Must have experience in implementing solution using Databricks
- Experience in Insurance (P&C) is good to have
- Programming Languages – SQL, Python
- Technologies – Databricks, Delta Lake storage, Spark (PySpark, Spark SQL).
- Good to have – Airflow, Splunk, Kubernetes, Power BI, Git, Azure Devops
- Project Management using Agile, Scrum
- B.S. Degree in a data-centric field (Mathematics, Economics, Computer Science, Engineering or other science field), Information Systems, Information Processing or engineering.
- Excellent communication & leadership skills, with the ability to lead and motivate team members
- Ability to work independently with some level of ambiguity and juggle multiple demands
LOCATION: Remote in CST or EST or Eastern Canada (need to be at client in NYC a few times a month)
Job ID# 1899678
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