Specialist Solutions Architect - DE/DWH

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London, United Kingdom
Last month
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Req:FEQ127R163

Location:London

Recruiter:Dina Hussain

Skills:Data Engineering/DWH

As a Specialist Solutions Architect (SSA) - Data Engineering, you will guide customers in building big data solutions on Databricks that span a large variety of use cases. You will be in a customer-facing role, working with and supporting Solution Architects, and will require hands-on production experience with Apache Spark™ and expertise in other data technologies. SSEs help customers through the design and successful implementation of essential workloads while aligning their technical roadmap to expand the use of the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform. As a deep go-to-expert reporting to the Senior Specialist Field Engineering Manager, you will continue to strengthen your technical skills through mentorship, learning, and internal training programs, and establish yourself in an area of speciality - whether that be streaming, performance tuning, industry expertise, or more.

The impact you will have:

  • Provide technical leadership to guide strategic customers to successful implementations on big data projects, ranging from architectural design to data engineering to model deployment
  • Architect production-level data pipelines, including end-to-end pipeline load performance testing and optimisation
  • Become a technical expert in an area such as data lake technology, big data streaming, or big data ingestion and workflows
  • Assist Solution Architects with more advanced aspects of the technical sale, including custom proof of concept content, estimating workload sizing, and custom architectures
  • Provide tutorials and training to improve community adoption (including hackathons and conference presentations)
  • Contribute to the Databricks Community

What we look for:

  • Extensive experience in a customer-facing technical role. Pre-sales or post-sales experience working with external clients across a variety of industry markets
  • Nice to have: Databricks Certification
  • Travelling approx. 20-30% of the time

Data Engineer Skills

  • Experience as aData Engineer: query tuning, performance tuning, troubleshooting, and debugging Spark or other big data solutions.
  • Extensive experience building big data pipelines
  • Experience in maintaining and extending production data systems to evolve with complex needs
  • Deep Speciality Expertise in at least one of the following areas:
  • Experience scaling big data workloads (such as ETL) that are performant and cost-effective
  • Experience migrating Hadoop workloads to the public cloud - AWS, Azure, or GCP
  • Experience with large-scale data ingestion pipelines and data migrations - including CDC and streaming ingestion pipelines
  • Expert with cloud data lake technologies - such as Delta and Delta Live
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or equivalent experience through work experience
  • Production programming experience in SQL and Python, Scala, or Java
  • Professional experience with Big Data technologies (Ex: Spark, Hadoop, Kafka) and architectures

Data Warehousing, Database Skills

  • Experience with the design and implementation of a broad range of analytical and transactional data technologies such as Hadoop, Apache Spark™, NoSQL, OLTP, OLAP, and ETL/ELT.
  • Hands-on experience working with MPP data warehouse appliances (Oracle Exadata, Teradata, IBM Netezza) or cloud data warehouses (Amazon Redshift, Azure Synapse, Snowflake)
  • Hands-on experience with RDBMS systems (PostGres, MySQL, SQL Server, Oracle, MariaDB)
  • Experience in SQL language or any SQL dialect (PL/SQL, Transact-SQL or others)
  • Experience with BI tools such as Power BI, Tableau, Qlik, or others
  • Knowledge of development tools and best practices for data engineers, including CI/CD, unit and integration testing, plus automation and orchestration
  • Expertise in data warehousing - such as query tuning, performance tuning, troubleshooting, and debugging MPP data warehouses or other big data solutions. Maintained, extended, or migrated a production data warehouse system to evolve with complex customer needs.
  • Production programming experience in PySpark.

About Databricks

Databricks is the data and AI company. More than 10,000 organizations worldwide — including Comcast, Condé Nast, Grammarly, and over 50% of the Fortune 500 — rely on the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform to unify and democratize data, analytics and AI. Databricks is headquartered in San Francisco, with offices around the globe and was founded by the original creators of Lakehouse, Apache Spark™, Delta Lake and MLflow. To learn more, follow Databricks on Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook.

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