Associate Director, Databricks Client Solution Lead

Deloitte (UK); Alabama; On-site; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Deloitte's Databricks practice in the UK and globally seeks a seasoned Client Solution Lead to drive Data & AI transformation opportunities for senior clients. You will shape strategies, oversee architectures, and lead cross-functional teams across strategy, engineering, and delivery to deliver measurable business outcomes.

The role combines deep Data & AI expertise with commercial acumen and executive engagement, building differentiated propositions and trusted relationships with clients and

Qualifications

• Extensive experience shaping and leading complex enterprise Data & AI transformations.
• Strong knowledge of the Databricks platform and its application across enterprise data engineering, analytics, machine learning, and Generative/Agentic AI.
• Proven experience developing Data & AI transformation strategies, roadmaps, and enterprise-scale solution architectures.
• Strong client engagement skills with experience advising senior business and technology stakeholders on complex transformation decisions.
• Experience leading discovery and solution-shaping activities, translating business challenges into clear technology requirements and solution options.
• Strong understanding of modern Data & AI architecture, including lakehouse patterns, data governance, analytics, machine learning, AI, and cloud platforms.
• Experience providing architecture oversight and technical leadership across large and complex technology programmes.
• Strong commercial awareness with experience shaping propositions, developing business cases, and articulating the value and outcomes of technology investments.
• Experience leading complex pursuits and coordinating multidisciplinary teams across strategy, architecture, engineering, delivery, and industry.
• Experience working with strategic technology alliances and building joint client propositions and go-to-market opportunities.
• Excellent executive communication and influencing skills, with the ability to simplify complex technical concepts and build credibility with senior stakeholders.
• Ability to identify emerging client needs and translate new Databricks and Data & AI capabilities into differentiated market propositions.
• Lead senior client engagements and large-scale opportunities, owning solution strategy, commercial positioning, and executive stakeholder engagement through to successful conversion.

Responsibilities

• Lead strategic client engagements, build trusted relationships with senior business and technology stakeholders and position Deloitte as a trusted Data & AI transformation partner.
• Lead the shaping of complex Databricks opportunities from early-stage discovery and qualification through solution definition, architecture, proposal development, and mobilisation.
• Translate client business priorities and transformation ambitions into clear Data & AI strategies, technology roadmaps, and solution propositions.
• Provide strategic architecture oversight across complex Databricks solutions, ensuring proposed architectures are scalable, secure, governed, and aligned to client enterprise technology strategies.
• Bring together data engineering, analytics, machine learning, and Generative AI capabilities to shape integrated transformation solutions on the Databricks platform.
• Provide technical strategy and leadership throughout the pursuit lifecycle, challenging assumptions, identifying risks, and ensuring the technical integrity and feasibility of proposed solutions.
• Develop compelling value propositions and articulate the business outcomes, benefits, and differentiated value of Deloitte and Databricks solutions.
• Work closely with industry, account, architecture, engineering, and delivery leaders to bring together the right capabilities and expertise for each client opportunity.
• Build and maintain executive relationships with Databricks and key ecosystem partners, working collaboratively across the alliance to identify opportunities, develop joint propositions, and support shared growth objectives.
• Provide leadership and oversight as opportunities transition from solution shaping into delivery, helping ensure that the original solution vision and intended client outcomes are maintained.
• Contribute to the continued growth of Deloitte's Databricks capability by developing repeatable propositions, industry solutions, accelerators, and go-to-market offerings.

Skills

Strategic leadership

Databricks expertise

Data & AI transformation

Executive engagement

Solution shaping

Architecture oversight

Enterprise data architectures

Commercial acumen

Client relationships

Cross-functional leadership

Lakehouse patterns

Cloud platforms

Proposals & business cases

Governance & security

Job description

Do you want to lead some of the UK's most strategic and ambitious Data & AI transformation opportunities, powered by Databricks?

Technology & Transformation helps organisations unlock the full value of their data and AI investments by bringing together business strategy, industry expertise, and leading technology. As a Databricks Client Solution Lead, you'll work with senior client stakeholders to understand their most complex challenges, shape compelling Data & AI transformation programmes, define the technology strategies and target architectures required to deliver measurable business outcomes.

Working at the intersection of our clients, Deloitte, and Databricks, you'll combine deep Data & AI expertise with commercial acumen and technical to develop differentiated, commercially compelling solutions, articulate clear value propositions, and build trusted executive relationships that drive long-term transformation and growth.

Connect to your career at Deloitte

Deloitte drives progress. Using our vast range of expertise, we help our clients become leaders wherever they choose to compete. To do this, we invest in outstanding people. We build teams of future thinkers, with diverse talents and backgrounds, and empower them all to reach for and achieve more.

What brings us all together at Deloitte?It’show we approach the thousands of decisions we make everyday. How we behave, our beliefs and our attitudes. In other words: our values. Whatever we do, whereverwe arein the world, welead the way,serve with integrity, take care of each other ,fosterinclusion, andcollaborate for measurable impact. These five shared values lead every decision wemake and action we take, guiding us to deliver impact how and where it mattersmost .

Connect to your opportunity

We're growing our Databricks business and are looking for experienced Client Solution Leads who can bring together strategic client engagement, deep Data & AI expertise, and technical leadership to shape and lead complex transformation opportunities. You'll work across Deloitte's industry, engineering, architecture, and alliance teams to develop solutions that address our clients' most important business and technology challenges.

We are seeking an experienced Databricks Client Solution Lead with a proven track record of shaping complex Data & AI transformations and leading strategic client engagements. The ideal candidate will combine strong knowledge of the Databricks platform and modern Data & AI architectures with the ability to understand client priorities, define transformation strategies, and translate these into compelling, commercially viable transformation solutions.

As a key member of our team, you will:

• Lead strategic client engagements, build trusted relationships with senior business and technology stakeholders and position Deloitte as a trusted Data & AI transformation partner.
• Lead the shaping of complex Databricks opportunities from early-stage discovery and qualification through solution definition, architecture, proposal development, and mobilisation.
• Translate client business priorities and transformation ambitions into clear Data & AI strategies, technology roadmaps, and solution propositions.
• Provide strategic architecture oversight across complex Databricks solutions, ensuring proposed architectures are scalable, secure, governed, and aligned to client enterprise technology strategies.
• Bring together data engineering, analytics, machine learning, and Generative AI capabilities to shape integrated transformation solutions on the Databricks platform.
• Provide technical strategy and leadership throughout the pursuit lifecycle, challenging assumptions, identifying risks, and ensuring the technical integrity and feasibility of proposed solutions.
• Develop compelling value propositions and articulate the business outcomes, benefits, and differentiated value of Deloitte and Databricks solutions.
• Work closely with industry, account, architecture, engineering, and delivery leaders to bring together the right capabilities and expertise for each client opportunity.
• Build and maintain executive relationships with Databricks and key ecosystem partners, working collaboratively across the alliance to identify opportunities, develop joint propositions, and support shared growth objectives.
• Provide leadership and oversight as opportunities transition from solution shaping into delivery, helping ensure that the original solution vision and intended client outcomes are maintained.
• Contribute to the continued growth of Deloitte's Databricks capability by developing repeatable propositions, industry solutions, accelerators, and go-to-market offerings.

Connect to your skills and professional experience

Overall, you're a strategic client and technology leader who can connect business strategy and growth ambition with Data & AI transformation. You combine strong technical credibility with commercial awareness and executive-level communication skills. You're comfortable operating at the earliest stages of complex opportunities, bringing clarity to ambiguous client challenges and mobilising multidisciplinary teams around a compelling solution.

You'll have strong skills and experience including some or all of the following:

• Extensive experience shaping and leading complex enterprise Data & AI transformation opportunities.
• Strong knowledge of the Databricks platform and its application across enterprise data engineering, analytics, machine learning, and Generative/Agentic AI.
• Proven experience developing Data & AI transformation strategies, roadmaps, and enterprise-scale solution architectures.
• Strong client engagement skills with experience advising senior business and technology stakeholders on complex transformation decisions.
• Experience leading discovery and solution-shaping activities, translating business challenges into clear technology requirements and solution options.
• Strong understanding of modern Data & AI architecture, including lakehouse patterns, data governance, analytics, machine learning, AI, and cloud platforms.
• Experience providing architecture oversight and technical leadership across large and complex technology programmes.
• Strong commercial awareness with experience shaping propositions, developing business cases, and articulating the value and outcomes of technology investments.
• Experience leading complex pursuits and coordinating multidisciplinary teams across strategy, architecture, engineering, delivery, and industry.
• Experience working with strategic technology alliances and building joint client propositions and go-to-market opportunities.
• Excellent executive communication and influencing skills, with the ability to simplify complex technical concepts and build credibility with senior stakeholders.
• Ability to identify emerging client needs and translate new Databricks and Data & AI capabilities into differentiated market propositions.
• Lead senior client engagements and large-scale opportunities, owning solution strategy, commercial positioning, and executive stakeholder engagement through to successful conversion.

Required

• Proven experience leading strategic client engagements and shaping large-scale Data & AI transformation opportunities.
• Extensive knowledge of modern Data & AI platforms, architectures, and transformation approaches.
• Strong knowledge and experience of the Databricks platform and broader Data & AI ecosystem.
• Demonstrable experience leading solution shaping from discovery through architecture