Data Platform Solutions Architect (Professional Services)

Databricks; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading data solutions firm is seeking a Resident Solutions Architect to work on impactful customer engagements. The role involves designing data architectures and guiding strategic customers in big data project implementation. Ideal candidates will have significant experience in data engineering and cloud ecosystems, strong coding skills in Python or Scala, and familiarity with Apache Spark. This position entails occasional travel to customer sites, contributing to their successful adoption of data solutions.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in data engineering, data platforms & analytics.
• Comfortable writing code in either Python or Scala.
• Working knowledge of two or more common Cloud ecosystems with expertise in at least one.
• Deep experience with distributed computing with Apache Spark.
• Familiarity with CI/CD for production deployments.
• Working knowledge of MLOps.
• Design and deployment of performant end-to-end data architectures.
• Experience with technical project delivery - managing scope and timelines.
• Experience working with clients and managing conflicts.

Responsibilities

• Work on a variety of impactful customer technical projects.
• Scope professional services work with engagement managers.
• Guide customers in implementing transformational big data projects.
• Consult on architecture and design for successful customer projects.
• Provide escalated support for customer operational issues.
• Work with technical and project management teams to deliver engagements.

Skills

Data engineering

Python

Scala

Cloud ecosystems (AWS, Azure, GCP)

Apache Spark

CI/CD

MLOps

End-to-end data architecture

Technical project delivery

Documentation and white-boarding

Client management

Job description

Overview

Location: United Kingdom Remote with occasional travel to the London office and clients' sites. We’re hiring for multiple roles within our Professional Services team. Depending on experience and scope, this position may be offered as Senior Solutions Consultant, Resident Solutions Architect, or Senior Resident Solutions Architect.

You may know this role as a Big Data Solutions Architect, Analytics Architect, Data Platform Architect, or Technical Consultant. The final title will align to your experience, technical depth, and customer-facing ownership.

As a Big Data Solutions Architect (Internal Title - 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.

Responsibilities

• You will work on a variety of impactful customer technical projects which may include designing and building reference architectures, creating how-to's and productionalizing customer use cases
• Work with engagement managers to scope variety of professional services work with input from the customer
• Guide strategic customers as they implement transformational big data projects, 3rd party migrations, including end-to-end design, build and deployment of industry-leading big data and AI applications
• Consult on architecture and design; bootstrap or implement customer projects which leads to a customers' successful understanding, evaluation and adoption of Databricks.
• Provide an escalated level of support for customer operational issues.
• You will work with the Databricks technical team, Project Manager, Architect and Customer team to ensure the technical components of the engagement are delivered to meet customer\'s needs.
• Work with Engineering and Databricks Customer Support to provide product and implementation feedback and to guide rapid resolution for engagement specific product and support issues.

Qualifications

• What we look for:
• Extensive experience in data engineering, data platforms & analytics
• Comfortable writing code in either Python or Scala
• Working knowledge of two or more common Cloud ecosystems (AWS, Azure, GCP) with expertise in at least one
• Deep experience with distributed computing with Apache Spark™ and knowledge of Spark runtime internals
• Familiarity with CI/CD for production deployments
• Working knowledge of MLOps
• Design and deployment of performant end-to-end data architectures
• Experience with technical project delivery - managing scope and timelines.
• Documentation and white-boarding skills.
• Experience working with clients and managing conflicts.
• Build skills in technical areas which support the deployment and integration of Databricks-based solutions to complete customer projects.
• Travel to customers 10% of the time
• [Preferred] Databricks Certification but not essential

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