Principal Consultant – Databricks

🕒 October 9

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $190k - $245k / year

⏰ Full Time

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OZ

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201 - 500 employees

💼 Consulting

🏥 Healthcare

✈️ Travel

Consulting • Healthcare • Travel

OZ is a premier digital consulting firm and trusted Microsoft solutions partner located in Florida. With over 25 years of experience, OZ specializes in delivering deep technical expertise and industry knowledge through a global delivery model. The company offers a range of services, including Azure solutions, Power Platform, artificial intelligence, enterprise integration, intelligent automation, data and analytics, and app innovation. OZ serves a diverse range of industries, such as travel and hospitality, healthcare insurance, technology, public sector, and retail, and is known for its tailor-made, Microsoft-powered solutions to address unique business challenges. OZ also provides an on-demand talent studio to access certified IT professionals. It has built a reputation as a reliable partner for over 370 companies, offering services that enhance business agility and innovation.

📋 Description

• Own the technical vision, target-state architecture, principles, standards, and roadmaps for complex Azure Databricks engagements • Lead discovery and architecture workshops, translating business priorities, security needs, operational constraints, and success measures into solution designs • Architect secure and scalable enterprise lakehouse platforms covering ingestion, storage, transformation, orchestration, analytics, data sharing, and AI/ML enablement • Establish engineering, governance, identity, networking, CI/CD, observability, reliability, performance, and cost-optimization practices • Provide delivery oversight by reviewing critical implementation artifacts, identifying risks, guiding technical decisions, and aligning sold and delivered solutions • Support qualification, solution shaping, estimates, staffing plans, proposals, statements of work, demonstrations, and executive presentations • Develop reusable reference architectures, accelerators, assessment methods, estimation models, delivery playbooks, and thought leadership • Mentor architects, engineers, and consultants • Partner with Databricks, Microsoft, customer stakeholders, sales teams, and internal practices

🎯 Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in enterprise data and analytics consulting • 5+ years architecting and delivering production Databricks or Lakehouse solutions • 3+ years in senior technical leadership, solution architecture, or principal-level consulting roles • Experience as the senior technical authority for complex enterprise data-platform engagements from discovery through production delivery • Deep Azure Databricks expertise across platform architecture, data engineering, Unity Catalog governance, operationalization, performance, and cost management • Strong command of Apache Spark, PySpark, Python, SQL, Delta Lake, batch and streaming patterns, ETL/ELT, data modeling, data quality, performance tuning, and production troubleshooting • Working knowledge of Microsoft Entra ID, Azure networking and private connectivity, ADLS, secrets and key management, monitoring, and related Azure data services • Experience with Databricks Partner Champion or Delivery Expert recognition, partner or Center of Excellence leadership, co-sell experience, or regulated and security-sensitive industries • Experience with Git-based development, automated testing, CI/CD, environment promotion, infrastructure as code, deployment automation, observability, runbooks, and support models • Strong consulting and business acumen connecting architecture decisions to customer outcomes, delivery risk, scope, margin, adoption, and platform consumption • Executive-level written, verbal, facilitation, and presentation skills • Experience in discovery, estimation, staffing, proposal or SOW development, technical pre-sales, delivery leadership, and multidisciplinary team guidance • Self-directed and collaborative leadership style with sound judgment, resilience, empathy, and ability to create structure in ambiguous situations • Databricks Certified Data Engineer Professional strongly preferred • Azure Platform Architect Badge and/or Databricks Data + AI Platform Administrator accreditation preferred • Willingness to complete an OZ-approved, role-aligned certification or accreditation path after joining if lacking an appropriate Databricks credential • Experience with large-scale platform modernization, cloud transformation, data-warehouse migration, or consolidation involving Databricks preferred • Experience creating reusable offerings, accelerators, reference architectures, assessment frameworks, delivery playbooks, or intellectual property preferred • Experience overseeing production analytics, machine-learning, or AI workloads beyond proof-of-concept delivery preferred • Proficiency with Azure Databricks, Delta Lake, Unity Catalog, Databricks SQL, Lakeflow Jobs and pipelines, Apache Spark, PySpark, Python, SQL, Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Entra ID, Azure Storage/ADLS, Azure networking, Private Link, Key Vault, Azure Monitor, Git, GitHub and/or Azure DevOps, automated testing, CI/CD, Terraform or comparable infrastructure as code, Databricks CLI and APIs, and Declarative Automation Bundles • Exposure to MLflow, model serving, Power BI, Microsoft Fabric, Azure Data Factory, and Microsoft Purview preferred

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive Pay • 401K • Health Coverage • Unlimited PTO • Flexible work arrangements, including hybrid and/or remote work • Tools and support to thrive • Culture of collaboration, growth, and balance