Big Data Solutions Consultant, Spark Expert

Big Data Solutions Consultant, Spark Expert at Databricks

As a Big Data Solutions Consultant (Resident Solutions Architect) in our Professional Services team you will work with clients on short to medium term customer engagements on their big data challenges using the Databricks platform. You will provide data engineering, data science, and cloud technology projects which require integrating with client systems, training, and other technical tasks to help customers to get most value out of their data. RSAs are billable and know how to complete projects according to specification with excellent customer service. You will report to the regional Manager/Lead.

• The impact you will have:

  • You will guide customers as they implement transformational big data projects, including end-to-end development and deployment of industry-leading big data and AI applications
  • You will assure that Databricks best practices are being used within all projects and that our quality of service and implementation is strictly followed
  • You will facilitate technical workshops, discovery and design sessions, customer requirements gathering and scoping for new and existing strategic customers
  • Assist the Professional Services leader and project managers with level of effort estimation and mitigation of risk within customer proposals and statements of work
  • Architect, design, develop, deploy, operationalize and document complex customer engagements individually or as part of an extended team as the technical lead and overall authority
  • Knowledge transfer, enablement and mentoring of other team members, customers and partners, including developing reusable project artifacts
  • Provide experience to the consulting team, provide best practices in client engagement to other teams

  What we look for:

  • 4+ years experience in data engineering, data platforms & analytics
  • Working knowledge of two or more common Cloud ecosystems (AWS, Azure, GCP)
  • Comfort with object-oriented and functional programming in Scala and Python
  • Experience in building scalable streaming and batch solutions using cloud-native components
  • Strong knowledge of distributed computing with Apache Spark™
  • Travel to customers 30% of the time
  • Nice to have: Databricks Certification

About Databricks

Databricks is the data and AI company. More than 10,000 organizations worldwide — including Comcast, Condé Nast, Grammarly, and over 50% of the Fortune 500 — rely on the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform to unify and democratize data, analytics and AI. Databricks is headquartered in San Francisco, with offices around the globe and was founded by the original creators of Lakehouse, Apache Spark™, Delta Lake and MLflow.

Benefits

At Databricks, we strive to provide comprehensive benefits and perks that meet the needs of all of our employees.

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