Databricks Practice Lead: Data Platform Architect & Mentor

Find My New Job; Melbourne; On-site; AUD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Find My New Job is seeking an experienced Databricks Practice Lead to drive technical vision, growth, and delivery excellence for our Databricks practice across enterprise clients.

You will lead architecture discussions, mentor engineers, and coordinate with delivery managers to ensure scalable cloud data solutions while staying current with Databricks capabilities and AI-assisted development practices.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in data engineering or related fields.
• 3+ years leading technical teams or architecture initiatives.
• Deep Databricks expertise including Unity Catalog and Delta Lake.
• Strong Azure expertise with ADLS, ADF, Event Hubs, Key Vault, DevOps.
• Proficiency in Python with OOP principles.
• Experience with Airflow or Dagster for orchestration.
• Experience with streaming tech like Kafka or Event Hubs.
• Strong data architecture and enterprise data platform design.
• Experience implementing data governance, quality, security and compliance.
• Experience deploying cloud-native data solutions on Azure.
• Excellent consulting, presentation, and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to lead multiple initiatives across distributed teams.
• Experience in Agile environments.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Databricks Practice technical direction and standards.
• Design enterprise-scale data platform architectures using Databricks.
• Provide technical leadership across client engagements.
• Partner with clients to translate business challenges into data solutions.
• Lead discovery sessions, architecture reviews, and design discussions.
• Mentor Data Engineers, Tech Leads, and Solution Architects.
• Define best practices for data engineering, DevOps, security, governance.
• Drive ETL/ELT development, data quality, monitoring, performance.
• Promote Lakehouse, Delta Lake, and event-driven architectures.
• Collaborate with Delivery Managers for project planning and risk management.
• Support pre-sales with design, proposals, estimates, and PoCs.
• Stay current with Databricks capabilities and emerging tech.
• Promote AI-assisted software development practices.

Skills

Leadership

Stakeholder management

Consulting

Presentation skills

Tools

Databricks

Azure Data Factory

Azure Data Lake Storage

Azure DevOps

Airflow

Dagster

Kafka

Azure Event Hubs

Python

Job description

Find My New Job is seeking an experienced Databricks Practice Lead to drive technical vision, growth, and delivery excellence for our Databricks practice across enterprise clients.

You will lead architecture discussions, mentor engineers, and coordinate with delivery managers to ensure scalable cloud data solutions while staying current with Databricks capabilities and AI-assisted development practices.