Senior Databricks Practice Lead & Engineering Manager

scicominfrastructureservices; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Scicom Infrastructure Services seeks an experienced Databricks Practice Lead / Engineering Manager to provide hands-on technical leadership while managing a team of data engineers, architects, and consultants supporting enterprise and government programs.

The role requires senior Databricks expertise to design modern data platforms, set technical standards, guide delivery, and participate in architecture reviews, troubleshooting, and client-facing solution development.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience in computer science, IT, data engineering, or related field.
• 10+ years in data engineering, data architecture, analytics engineering, or related roles.
• 5+ years leading technical engineering teams and delivering Databricks solutions.
• Deep expertise with Databricks Lakehouse Platform, Spark, Delta Lake, and governance frameworks.
• Experience deploying Databricks on Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud.
• Strong CI/CD, Git-based development, automated testing, and infrastructure as code.
• Ability to optimize Spark workloads, cluster configurations, and cloud costs.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder-management skills.

Responsibilities

• Provide hands-on technical leadership for Databricks platforms across enterprise and government programs.
• Design scalable, secure data architectures and establish technical standards.
• Guide delivery teams through architecture reviews, code reviews, and client-facing solution development.
• Mentor engineers, manage resources, and drive performance with clear goals and development plans.
• Oversee platform migrations, modernization efforts, and production support.
• Lead governance, data modeling, ingestion, and data sharing strategies.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Architecture vision

Mentoring

Problem solving

Client facing

Education

Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field

Tools

Databricks Lakehouse Platform

Apache Spark / PySpark

Delta Lake

Unity Catalog

Cloud platforms (Azure / AWS / GCP)

CI/CD / IaC

MLflow / MLOps

Databricks Workflows / Jobs

Job description

Scicom Infrastructure Services seeks an experienced Databricks Practice Lead / Engineering Manager to provide hands-on technical leadership while managing a team of data engineers, architects, and consultants supporting enterprise and government programs.

The role requires senior Databricks expertise to design modern data platforms, set technical standards, guide delivery, and participate in architecture reviews, troubleshooting, and client-facing solution development.