Manager, Databricks Technical Architect, Strategy, Governance & Architecture, SAMA, Consulting
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Job title: Manager, Databricks Technical Architect, Strategy, Governance & Architecture, SAMA, Consulting
Company: Deloitte
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Do you want to be at the heart of some of the biggest and most ambitious AI & Data projects? Strategy, Analytics and M&A How do you make intelligent, future-proof decisions in a world where change is the one constant? That’s exactly what you’ll help our clients to do. You’ll build trusted relationships with business stakeholders – and use the most exciting new technologies available – to create data-driven programmes that transform their organisations. Your advice will help clients position their organisations to succeed in an ever evolving marketplace.
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We are seeking to hire experienced Databricks Technical Architects in the Data & AI Architecture team of Deloitte’s AI & Data service offering.
Large organisations are undergoing a significant transformation, driven by the increasing importance of data and analytics. As enterprises seek to leverage data to drive better business outcomes, they are turning to decentralised data management approaches such as Data Mesh and choosing Databricks as disruptive technology to build innovative and domain-oriented data products.
As a Databricks Technical Architect, you will solve our clients’ most challenging business problems to design and deliver robust and cutting-edge data solutions on Databricks.
By joining Deloitte, you will have access to the best training and learning opportunities, allowing you to develop new skills and hone existing ones. You will be working in fast-paced teams with other highly talented, fun and motivated colleagues. We also encourage consideration of flexible ways of working, both formal and informal arrangements that allow for the best outcomes for our people and our clients. If this opportunity is of interest to you, please do discuss with us.
Strategy, Analytics and M&A
How do you make intelligent, future-proof decisions in a world where change is the one constant? That’s exactly what you’ll help our clients to do. You’ll build trusted relationships with business stakeholders – and use the most exciting new technologies available – to create data-driven programmes that transform their organisations. Your advice will help clients position their organisations to succeed in an ever-evolving marketplace.
As a Databricks Technical Architect, you will help our clients to leverage modern data and analytics architectures, tools and patterns to drive business outcomes and improve customer engagement. You will play a critical role in designing and delivering innovative architectures that seamlessly integrate solutions with other enterprises systems.
You are an exceptional communicator, able to articulate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders with ease. You have a strong ability to collaborate and work effectively in a team environment, leveraging the strengths of others to achieve common goals. You are outcome focussed and have a desire to be pragmatic in your approach to designing and delivering high-quality solutions that meet or exceed client expectations.
Responsibilities include:
- Architect Databricks Enterprise Data Platform solutions including ETL/ELT and Lakehouse architecture and design and lead use case delivery across a variety of use cases (e.g. legacy migrations, enterprise analytics, data engineering, single customer view, data science & AI).
- Work directly with client stakeholders to assess the as-is EDW and analytics workloads and suggest target solution architectures leveraging your expertise in Data & Analytics tools & Cloud technologies.
- Develop product roadmaps alongside clients, planning the delivery of features and user stories.
- Collaborate with Enterprise, Application, Data & DevOps Architects, Data engineers and scientists and Business teams to pilot use cases and discuss architectural design.
- Select appropriate technologies from a pool of open-source and commercial offerings, considering deployment models and integration with existing tools.
- Assist in the development of our market leading AI & Data offerings, in particular on Data Mesh architectures powered by Databricks solutions and produce proposal documents to showcase our capabilities.
- Develop thought leadership and industry eminence with point of views and insights gained from working with our clients and leading-edge technology.
- Contribute to client project delivery by owning one or more workstream(s) and ensuring commercially successful conclusion of the client engagements.
- Manage diverse teams within an inclusive team culture where people are recognised for their contribution.
- Develop the capability of junior team members through ‘on the job’ training and formal development programmes.
Connect to your skills and professional experience
We are looking for candidates who are able to demonstrate skills and experience in some of the following.
Essential
- Experience in Data architecture and/or data engineering.
- Hands on experience with other Data Warehouse platforms and migration experience from legacy to Databricks.
- Relevant experience in designing and delivery Databricks based solutions i.e. Databricks Lakehouse, data science workflows (MLFlow, MLOps on Databricks), governance (Unity Catalogue), security and access design on Cloud technologies (AWS, GCP, Azure).
- Experience with design and implementation in big data technologies such as Hadoop, NoSQL, MPP, OLTP, and OLAP or full lifecycle data science solutions.
- Experience with Data Acquisition, Integration & Transformation solutions leveraging Batch, Micro-batch, CDC and Event-driven.
- Broad knowledge across Cloud architecture, DevOps, Networking, Machine Learning, Security.
- Experience and knowledge of delivering innovative enterprise data management frameworks e.g. Data Mesh.
- Experience in working within an architecture function and presenting architectural designs to a variety of stakeholders (incl. Technical Design Authorities or Architecture Boards).
- Ability to demonstrate stakeholder management skills and collaborate effectively with multidisciplinary teams.
- Experience of leading multi-disciplinary teams in fast-paced project environments and demonstrate personal resilience.
- Demonstrate the ability to conduct discovery and design workshops, creation of architectural design and implementation roadmaps and managing workstream delivery.
- Ability to support ‘go-to-market’ activities such as responding to RFI / RFPs and developing high-quality proposal materials.
- Programming knowledge in SQL, Python, R or Scala.
Desirable
- Professional certifications in Databricks and Cloud platforms.
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Personal independence
Regulation and controls are standard practice in our industry and Deloitte is no exception. These controls provide important legal protection for both you and the firm. We are subject to a number of audit regulations, one of which requires that certain colleagues abide by specific personal independence constraints. This can mean that you and your “Immediate Family Members” are not permitted to hold certain financial interests (shares, funds, bonds etc.) with audit clients of the firm. The recruitment team will provide further detail as you progress through the recruitment process.
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-Sophia, Consulting
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Location: London, Manchester, Reading
Your Work, Your Way: We call our hybrid working vision Deloitte Works. And it does. We trust you to make the right choices around where, when and how you work. You’ll be able to make decisions about how you work best, to be collaborative, learn from colleagues, share your experiences, build the relationships that will fuel your career and prioritise your wellbeing. Having great conversations with your team and your leadership paves the way for great collaborative ways of working.
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Our commitment to you
Making an impact is more than just what we do: it’s why we’re here. So we work hard to create an environment where you can experience a purpose you believe in, the freedom to be you, and the capacity to go further than ever before.
We want you. The true you. Your own strengths, perspective and personality. So we’re nurturing a culture where everyone belongs, feels supported and heard, and is empowered to make a valuable, personal contribution. You can be sure we’ll take your wellbeing seriously, too. Because it’s only when you’re comfortable and at your best that you can make the kind of impact you, and we, live for.
Your expertise is our capability, so we’ll make sure it never stops growing. Whether it’s from the complex work you do, or the people you collaborate with, you’ll learn every day. Through world-class development, you’ll gain invaluable technical and personal skills. Whatever your level, you’ll learn how to lead.
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A career at Deloitte is an opportunity to develop in any direction you choose. Join us and you’ll experience a purpose you can believe in and an impact you can see. You’ll be free to bring your true self to work every day. And you’ll never stop growing, whatever your level.
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