Senior Databricks Architect

CNX

6d • $106,087 - $151,554 • Remote

About The Position

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.

Requirements

• Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to influence technical and nontechnical audiences.
• Demonstrated ability to gather requirements, and translate business needs into technical designs and phased roadmaps.
• Proven experience driving architecture and design in data or analytics projects in a consulting, professional services, or similar environment.
• Extensive hands on experience designing and delivering data platforms and pipelines on Databricks, including Delta Lake, Jobs/Workflows, and Databricks SQL.
• Strong programming skills in at least two of: Python, PySpark, and SQL, with demonstrated ability to build performant batch and streaming solutions.
• Solid understanding of cloud services (Azure, AWS, or GCP) relevant to Databricks deployments, such as storage, networking, identity, and DevOps tooling.
• Experience implementing data governance, security, and access control in Lakehouse or data platform environments using Unity Catalog or similar tools.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with largescale data platform migrations or modernizations (e.g., from legacy ETL/warehouse tools to Databricks).
• Exposure to enabling ML/AI and GenAI workloads on Databricks, such as feature engineering pipelines, MLflow, or integration with LLM/GenAI services.
• Multi-industry background (e.g., financial services, healthcare, manufacturing, public sector) with an understanding of common data and analytics use cases.
• Prior responsibility for mentoring engineers, or leading multi-workstream engagements.
• Databricks certifications (Architect, Data Engineer, ML Professional); enterprise-scale data and AI platform experience; current or former Databricks Champion.

Responsibilities

• Presales, client facing and solutioning Partner with lead consultants to identify, design and develop high value Databricks use cases.
• Design and deploy best in class architectures for data, analytics, and AI platforms built on Databricks and cloud services (Azure, AWS, or GCP).
• Identify opportunities to create IP and packageable solutions based on observed patterns and customer whitespaces
• Drive architectural discussions with Client SME’s and technical resources during design phase of engagements
• Address technical objections and build confidence with client architects and executives during the sales and delivery cycle.
• Lead the design and development of secure, scalable Databricks Lakehouse architectures, including Delta Lake, Unity Catalog, and integration with upstream and downstream systems.
• Oversee and participate in 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.
• Help 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, review designs and code, and unblock complex technical issues.
• 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 live stabilization, ensuring robust handover to client operations or managed services teams.

Benefits

• Benefits available to eligible employees in this role include medical, dental, and vision insurance, comprehensive employee assistance program, 401(k) retirement plan, paid time off and holidays and paid learning days.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed