Solution Architect – Databricks

LumenData

Bengaluru

On-site

INR 3,000,000 - 6,000,000

Full time

6 days ago
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Job summary

LumenData in Bengaluru, India seeks a highly experienced Senior FDE / Resident Solution Architect – Databricks to design, implement, and optimize scalable data engineering and analytics solutions on the Databricks platform.

The role requires hands-on Databricks, Spark, PySpark, and cloud platform expertise, with strong leadership in architecture discussions, performance tuning, and production deployments.

Qualifications

  • 10+ years of overall consulting / technology experience.
  • 7+ years in Data Engineering, Big Data, or Analytics.
  • Strong hands-on Databricks experience.
  • Minimum 6-8 end-to-end Databricks projects delivered.

Responsibilities

  • Design and implement scalable Databricks Lakehouse solutions.
  • Work with customers to capture requirements and define architecture.
  • Build and optimize data pipelines using Databricks, Spark, PySpark, SQL, and Delta Lake.
  • Provide guidance on Databricks architecture, standards, and best practices.
  • Troubleshoot Spark/Databricks performance and optimize workloads.
  • Support CI/CD processes for Databricks deployments and DevOps integration.
  • Mentor customer teams and act as a technical advisor.

Skills

Senior-level consulting experience
Databricks expertise
Spark / PySpark development
Data engineering architecture
Cloud platform knowledge
Client-facing / advisory
Delata Lake / Unity Catalog
CI/CD / DevOps basics
Performance optimization
End-to-end data pipelines

Tools

Databricks
Spark
PySpark
Delta Lake
Unity Catalog
Workflows
Auto Loader
Databricks SQL
Terraform

Job description

  • 10+ years of overall consulting / technology experience
  • 7+ years of experience in Data Engineering, Data Platforms, Big Data, or Analytics
  • Strong hands-on Databricks experience
  • Minimum 6-8 end-to-end Databricks project implementations
Role Overview

We are looking for a highly experienced Senior FDE / Resident Solution Architect – Databricks who can work closely with enterprise customers to design, develop, optimize, and support scalable data engineering and analytics solutions on the Databricks platform.

The consultant should have strong hands-on expertise in Databricks, Apache Spark, PySpark, distributed computing, cloud platforms, performance optimization, and solution architecture.

This is a highly technical and client-facing role. The consultant should be able to independently drive architecture discussions, troubleshoot complex Databricks/Spark issues, provide implementation guidance, and support production deployments.

Key Responsibilities
  • Design and implement scalable Databricks Lakehouse solutions.
  • Work directly with customers to understand technical and business requirements.
  • Define end-to-end data engineering and platform architecture.
  • Build and optimize data pipelines using Databricks, Spark, PySpark, SQL, and Delta Lake.
  • Design batch and streaming data-processing solutions.
  • Provide technical guidance on Databricks architecture, development standards, and best practices.
  • Troubleshoot complex Spark and Databricks performance issues.
  • Optimize workloads for performance, scalability, reliability, and cost.
  • Support enterprise Databricks platform implementation and modernization initiatives.
  • Work with Databricks capabilities such as Delta Lake, Unity Catalog, Workflows, Auto Loader, Databricks SQL, Lakeflow/DLT, and Serverless.
  • Design and support CI/CD processes for Databricks deployments.
  • Work with DevOps and Infrastructure-as-Code tools such as Git, Terraform, Azure DevOps, GitHub, GitLab, or Jenkins.
  • Provide guidance on Databricks security, governance, access control, and Unity Catalog.
  • Support customer teams with architecture reviews, code reviews, troubleshooting, and technical mentoring.
  • Work as a trusted technical advisor to customer architects, engineering teams, and stakeholders.
Mandatory Skills
Databricks
  • Strong hands-on experience in Databricks development and architecture
  • Databricks Lakehouse Architecture
  • Unity Catalog
  • Databricks Workflows
  • Auto Loader
  • Databricks SQL
  • Batch and streaming workloads
  • Cluster / compute configuration
  • Performance optimization
  • Strong hands-on Spark and PySpark development
  • Deep understanding of Spark internals including:
  • Driver and Executors
  • DAG
  • Jobs, Stages, and Tasks
  • Memory management
  • Adaptive Query Execution
  • Spark SQL execution plans
  • Strong ETL / ELT experience
  • Data ingestion and transformation
  • Data modeling
  • Batch processing
  • Streaming processing
  • SQL
  • Python / PySpark
Cloud

Candidate must have:

  • Deep expertise in at least one cloud platform: AWS / Azure / GCP
  • Working knowledge of at least one additional cloud platform

Relevant cloud services may include:

AWS: S3, IAM, Glue, Lambda, Kinesis, Redshift

GCP: GCS, BigQuery, Pub/Sub, Dataflow, IAM

Performance & Scalability

Strong experience with:

  • Spark performance tuning
  • Query optimization
  • Photon
  • Autoscaling
CI/CD & DevOps

Working knowledge of:

  • Git
  • Terraform
  • Databricks Asset Bundles
MLOps

Working knowledge of:

  • MLflow
  • Experiment tracking
Certification
Mandatory / Highly Preferred:
  • Completion of relevant Databricks training/classes
Preferred Skills
  • Databricks migrations / modernization
  • Hadoop to Databricks migration
  • Cloud data warehouse to Databricks migration
  • Unity Catalog implementation
  • Terraform
  • Databricks Asset Bundles
  • MLflow / MLOps
  • Data governance
  • Streaming architecture
  • Technical leadership / mentoring
Client-Facing Skills

The consultant must have strong experience in:

  • Customer-facing technical discussions
  • Requirement gathering
  • Technical presentations
  • Technical recommendations
  • Troubleshooting and problem solving
Ideal Candidate Profile

We are looking for candidates with approximately:

  • 10-15+ years overall experience
  • 7+ years Data Engineering / Big Data experience
  • Strong Databricks and Spark experience
  • 6-8+ Databricks project implementations
  • Strong client-facing consulting background
  • Databricks Data Engineer Professional certification
  • Deep Spark / PySpark and Spark internals knowledge
  • Strong performance tuning expertise
  • Deep knowledge of one cloud platform and exposure to another
  • Strong solution architecture and technical leadership capabilities

Please submit only candidates who meet the core requirements. Each submission should clearly mention:

  • Total Experience
  • Relevant Data Engineering Experience
  • Databricks Experience
  • Number of Databricks Projects Delivered
  • Spark / PySpark Experience
  • Primary Cloud Expertise
  • Secondary Cloud Exposure
  • Databricks Certifications
  • Current Location
  • Current CTC / Rate
  • Expected CTC / Rate
  • Notice Period / Availability
  • Current Organization
  • Client-facing / Consulting Experience
  • Brief summary of the candidate's strongest Databricks project
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