Principal, Databricks Consultant - Strategic Solution Architecture

Concentrix Experts Colombia S.A.S.; Tennessee; On-site; USD 160,000 - 220,000; Full time

Job summary

Concentrix is seeking a Principal Databricks Consultant in a strategic role focused on solution architecture, presales, and implementation leadership. You will design secure, scalable Databricks Lakehouse architectures and guide client engagements from discovery through delivery.

Lead data engineering teams, define governance and best practices, and ensure successful production go-lives with strong collaboration across sales, delivery, and client stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and presentation skills.
• Ability to influence both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Experience leading client-facing data or analytics projects in consulting or services.

Responsibilities

• Partner with sales and account teams to discover objectives and identify Databricks use cases.
• Shape solution visions and reference architectures on Databricks and cloud platforms.
• Develop proposals with scope, phases, estimates, risks, and SOWs.
• Lead technical presentations, demos, and address objections.
• Provide hands-on technical leadership to data engineers and analysts.

Skills

Excellent communication

Stakeholder management

Presentation skills

Workshop facilitation

Requirements gathering

translate business needs into designs

Tools

Databricks

Unity Catalog

Delta Lake

Spark

Python

SQL

Job description

Job Title: Principal, Databricks Consultant - Strategic Solution Architecture

We're Concentrix. The intelligent transformation partner. Solution-focused. Tech-powered. Intelligence-fueled.

The global technology and services leader that powers the world's best brands, today and into the future. We're solution-focused, tech-powered, intelligence-fueled. With unique data and insights, deep industry expertise, and advanced technology solutions, we're the intelligent transformation partner that powers a world that works, helping companies become refreshingly simple to work, interact, and transact with. We shape new game-changing careers in over 70 countries, attracting the best talent.

The Concentrix Technical Products and Services team is the driving force behind Concentrix's transformation, data, and technology services. We integrate world-class digital engineering, creativity, and a deep understanding of human behavior to find and unlock value through tech-powered and intelligence-fueled experiences. We combine human-centered design, powerful data, and strong tech to accelerate transformation at scale. You will be surrounded by the best in the world providing market leading technology and insights to modernize and simplify the customer experience. Within our professional services team, you will deliver strategic consulting, design, advisory services, market research, and contact center analytics that deliver insights to improve outcomes and value for our clients. Hence achieving our vision.

Our gamechangers around the world have devoted their careers to ensuring every relationship is exceptional. And we're proud to be recognized with awards such as "World's Best Workplaces," "Best Companies for Career Growth," and "Best Company Culture," year after year.

Join us and be part of this journey towards greater opportunities and brighter futures.

Key responsibilities

Presales and solutioning

• Partner with sales and account teams to run discovery sessions, understand customer objectives, and identify high value Databricks use cases.
• Shape solution visions and reference architectures for data, analytics, and AI platforms built on Databricks and cloud services (Azure, AWS, or GCP).
• Develop proposals and statements of work, including scope, phases, estimates, risks, and assumptions for Databricks engagements.
• Deliver technical presentations, whiteboard sessions, and demos that clearly communicate Databricks capabilities and business value to diverse audiences.
• Address technical objections, guide architecture discussions, and build confidence with client architects and executives during the sales cycle.
• Drive additional revenue by proactively uncovering opportunities to expand business within current customer base

Architecture and delivery leadership

• Lead the design and implementation of secure, scalable Databricks Lakehouse architectures, including Delta Lake, Unity Catalog, and integration with upstream and downstream systems.
• Pro-actively define offerings, IP and associated collateral that will resonate with both new/existing customers and help close new business
• Oversee the build of batch and streaming data pipelines, notebooks, and Databricks SQL assets using Spark, Python, and SQL, following medallion and other best practice patterns.
• Define and enforce engineering standards, including code quality, testing, CI/CD, observability, and operational readiness for Databricks workloads.
• Collaborate with project managers and client stakeholders to plan releases, manage dependencies, mitigate risks, and ensure on time, on budget delivery.
• Provide hands on technical leadership to data engineers and analysts, reviewing designs and code, and unblocking complex technical issues.

Governance, operations, and adoption

• Implement data governance and security practices using Unity Catalog and related tools, including access control, lineage, and compliance aligned policies.
• Optimize performance, reliability, and cost of Databricks workloads through cluster tuning, storage strategies, and monitoring.
• Drive change management and enablement by creating documentation, runbooks, and training materials, and facilitating knowledge transfer to client teams.
• Support production go lives and post olive stabilization, ensuring robust handover to client operations or managed services teams.
• Work with specialty sales team and COE Lead to create a plan to engage with and add net new customers to existing portfolio

Required qualifications .

• Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and presentation skills, with the ability to influence technical and nontechnical audiences.
• Demonstrated ability to run workshops, gather requirements, and translate business needs into technical designs and phased roadmaps.
• Proven experience leading client facing data or analytics projects in a consulting, professional services, or similar environment.
• Extensive hands-on