Databricks Data Platform Lead (GenAI)

8300 Accenture NZ Limited Company; Warkworth; On-site; NZD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Parental Leave

Career Development

Flexible Work

International Opportunities

Diversity & Inclusion

Family Inclusive Workplace

Job summary

Accenture NZ Limited is leading the Data & AI practice in ANZ, delivering Databricks-based data platforms and GenAI-driven data journeys for clients. You will mentor data engineering teams, partner with clients, and drive end-to-end delivery across cloud environments.

The role emphasizes governance, observability, and CI/CD, with opportunities to leverage Delta Lake, Unity Catalog, and Lakehouse patterns to accelerate client outcomes.

Qualifications

• Experience delivering end-to-end Databricks deployments.
• Strong governance, observability and CI/CD expertise.
• Leadership in large, multi-workstream programs.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor cross-functional data engineering teams to deliver end-to-end Databricks solutions.
• Collaborate with clients and SMEs to architect scalable data platforms.
• Own project delivery, stakeholder communications, issue resolution.
• Enforce data governance, observability, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Drive innovation by evaluating emerging data technologies and promoting continuous learning.

Skills

Databricks Lakehouse

Delta Lake

Delta Live Tables

Unity Catalog

Python

PySpark

SQL

Streaming Data

CI/CD / DevOps

Cloud Platforms AWS/Azure/GCP

Tools

Databricks

Spark

Kubernetes

Git

CI/CD Tools

Job description

Accenture NZ Limited is leading the Data & AI practice in ANZ, delivering Databricks-based data platforms and GenAI-driven data journeys for clients. You will mentor data engineering teams, partner with clients, and drive end-to-end delivery across cloud environments.

The role emphasizes governance, observability, and CI/CD, with opportunities to leverage Delta Lake, Unity Catalog, and Lakehouse patterns to accelerate client outcomes.