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Blue Orange Digital

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2015

💼 Consulting

🏥 Healthcare

📦 Logistics

💰 $700k Corporate round on 2022-05

Consulting • Healthcare • Logistics

Blue Orange Digital is a data and AI consulting firm that helps companies turn complex data into real business outcomes. It partners with organizations across industries to design and deploy scalable data infrastructure, advanced analytics, and AI-powered solutions, and operates as a fully remote, globally distributed team focused on building practical, production-ready systems.

📋 Description

• Lead technical discovery on Databricks opportunities and run architecture sessions with client engineering and data leadership • Design Lakehouse reference architectures covering Delta Lake, Unity Catalog, workflow orchestration, and Mosaic AI • Own technical content in proposals and SOWs, including architecture diagrams, migration approach, team composition, and effort estimates • Run proof-of-concept builds and technical bake-offs demonstrating working code • Serve as technical authority in competitive evaluations against Snowflake, Microsoft Fabric, and in-house Spark platforms • Partner with Sales on qualification and identify opportunities where Databricks is not the right solution • Act as lead architect on major Databricks engagements from kickoff through production handoff • Set technical direction for engagement teams of three to six engineers and review designs and code • Resolve Spark performance, Delta Lake optimization, Unity Catalog migration and governance, cost, and streaming architecture problems • Drive knowledge transfer so client teams can operate delivered systems independently • Own strategic-account escalations and keep executive stakeholders informed • Serve as primary technical relationship owner with Databricks field, partner, and product teams • Build and run the Databricks co-sell motion and support Databricks-sourced opportunities • Drive partner tier advancement and Brickbuilder specialization roadmap • Represent Blue Orange Digital at Data + AI Summit, partner enablement sessions, and regional Databricks events • Produce technical marketing including reference architectures, benchmarks, case studies, and conference talks • Build internal enablement and certification programs for engineers • Report to the Head of Delivery and work directly with the CEO and Head of Sales on partnership strategy

🎯 Requirements

• Eight or more years in data engineering, data architecture, or platform engineering • At least four years architecting on Databricks in production environments • Solutions Architect-level depth on Databricks • Ability to design multi-workspace Unity Catalog governance models • Ability to explain Photon cost benefits, diagnose skewed joins from Spark UI, and reason about Delta Lake file layout and liquid clustering • Hands-on command of Spark, Delta Lake, Unity Catalog, Databricks Workflows, Delta Live Tables, MLflow, and Mosaic AI • Fluency in at least one major cloud: AWS, Azure, or GCP • Infrastructure-as-code experience • Demonstrated pre-sales experience leading technical discovery, authoring proposal architecture, and winning competitive deals • Enterprise delivery track record, including at least one large-scale migration to Databricks from a legacy warehouse, Hadoop, or homegrown Spark platform • Executive communication skills • Experience working with or inside a technology partner ecosystem • Willingness to travel roughly 25 percent for client work, partner meetings, and industry events • Background checks may be required for certain positions/projects

🏖️ Benefits

• Partnership performance bonus tied to Databricks-sourced pipeline and closed revenue • Competitive base plus a bonus directly tied to the partnership you build • Full ownership of a growing practice, with executive support and no layers between you and the decision-makers • Work on production Databricks problems at real enterprise scale, across industries • Builder culture where engineers lead and ship, and where architecture decisions are made by people who write code • Professional development budget with certification support, conference attendance, and speaking opportunities • Flexible remote work environment • Collaborative team that values production-grade craftsmanship over billable theater • Unlimited Paid Time Off (PTO) • Paid parental/bereavement leave