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Sr. Big Data Engineer

Remote - IndiaHybridFull TimeSeniorPosted 2 months ago

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Role summary

The Sr. Big Data Engineer will join the Professional Services team, focusing on customer engagements using the Databricks Platform. This role involves addressing client big data challenges through data engineering, data science, and cloud technology projects, including system integration and customer training. Responsibilities include guiding customers through transformational big data projects, consulting on architecture and design, and contributing product feedback. The ideal candidate possesses 8+ years of experience with Big Data technologies like Apache Spark and Kafka, 6+ years in Big Data Architectures, and strong experience within the Databricks ecosystem, with proficiency in Python or Scala and experience across major cloud platforms (GCP, AWS, Azure). Travel within India for onsite engagements is expected.

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As a Sr. Big Data Engineer 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 that require integrating with client systems, training, and other technical tasks to help customers get the most value out of their data. You will report to the Manager, Professional Services.

The impact you will have:

  • You will work on a variety of impactful customer technical Big Data projects, which may include building reference architectures, how-to's and production-grade MVPs
  • 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 strategic customer projects that lead to a customer's successful understanding, evaluation and adoption of Databricks.
  • 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.
  • What we look for:

  • 8+ years of experience with Big Data Technologies such as Apache Spark™, Kafka, Cloud Native and Data Lakes in a customer-facing post-sales, technical architecture, or consulting role
  • 6+ years of experience working on Big Data Architectures independently
  • Strong experience working in the Databricks ecosystem
  • Comfortable writing code in either Python or Scala.
  • Experience working across Cloud Platforms (GCP / AWS / Azure)
  • Documentation and white-boarding skills.
  • Build skills in technical areas which support the deployment and integration of Databricks-based solutions to complete customer projects.
  • Willingness to travel for onsite customer engagements within India.
  • 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. To learn more, follow Databricks on Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook.BenefitsAt Databricks, we strive to provide comprehensive benefits and perks that meet the needs of all of our employees. For specific details on the benefits offered in your region, please visit https://www.mybenefitsnow.com/databricks.

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