Senior Databricks Consultant — AI & Data Platforms

Everforth ECS; Merrifield (VA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 195,000; Full time

Job summary

Everforth ECS is seeking a Sr. Databricks Consultant to join our Arlington, VA-based team. You will design, optimize, and tune Databricks environments for advanced analytics and AI-driven insights, leveraging Delta Lake, MLflow, and Databricks ML.

The role supports professional services and managed cybersecurity programs and requires US citizenship. You will collaborate with customers to deliver scalable data pipelines, model training, and data governance across AWS/Azure/GCP, with travel to

Qualifications

• U.S. citizen required for contract.
• Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience.
• Senior-level databricks, data engineering, and cloud platforms experience.
• Experience designing, optimizing, and securing data pipelines.
• Ability to travel to client sites as needed.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain scalable ETL/ELT pipelines in Databricks.
• Optimize workflows and clusters for performance and cost efficiency.
• Integrate Databricks with AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Implement data governance, security, and compliance standards.
• Collaborate with data scientists, analysts, and stakeholders to deliver datasets and insights.
• Troubleshoot issues and drive continuous improvement in data infrastructure.
• Proven experience working with Databricks in production environments.
• Strong proficiency in Python and/or SQL for data engineering.
• Experience with Apache Spark for distributed data processing.
• Knowledge of data lakehouse architecture and best practices.
• Experience with cloud data platforms (AWS S3, Azure Data Lake, or GCP Storage).
• Hands-on experience building and managing ETL/ELT pipelines.
• Strong understanding of data modeling, data quality, and performance tuning.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and version control (Git).
• Ability to travel, as needed, to customer sites.

Skills

Databricks

Python

SQL

Apache Spark

CI/CD

Git

AWS

Azure

GCP

Delta Lake

MLflow

Unity Catalog

Tableau

Power BI

Looker

Terraform

CloudFormation

Kafka

Kinesis

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree or PhD (preferred)

Tools

Databricks

Delta Lake

Unity Catalog

MLflow

Terraform

CloudFormation

Git

Tableau

Power BI

Looker

Apache Spark

AWS

Azure

GCP

Kafka

Kinesis

Job description

Everforth ECS is seeking a Sr. Databricks Consultant to join our Arlington, VA-based team. You will design, optimize, and tune Databricks environments for advanced analytics and AI-driven insights, leveraging Delta Lake, MLflow, and Databricks ML.

The role supports professional services and managed cybersecurity programs and requires US citizenship. You will collaborate with customers to deliver scalable data pipelines, model training, and data governance across AWS/Azure/GCP, with travel to