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Your day at NTT DATA
Primary Responsibilities
- Client Engagement & Delivery
- Data Pipeline Development (Batch and Streaming)
- Databricks & Lakehouse Architectures
- Data Modelling & Optimisation ( Delta Lake , Medallion architecture )
- Collaboration & Best Practices
- Quality, Governance & Security
Business Relationships
- Solution Architects
- Data Engineers, Developers, ML Engineers, and Analysts
- Client stakeholders up to Head of Data Engineering, Chief Data Architect, and Analytics leadership
To thrive in this role, you need to have:
Key Competencies
- Proven experience in data engineering and pipeline development on Databricks and cloud-native platforms.
- Strong consulting values with ability to collaborate effectively in client-facing environments.
- Hands-on expertise across the data lifecycle: ingestion, transformation, modelling, governance, and consumption.
- Strong problem-solving, analytical, and communication skills.
- Experience leading or mentoring teams of engineers to deliver high-quality scalable data solutions.
Technical Expertise
- Deep expertise with the Databricks platform ( Spark / PySpark /Scala, Delta Lake , Unity Catalog , MLflow ).
- Proficiency in ETL/ELT tools such as DBT , Matillion , Talend , or equivalent.
- Strong SQL and Python (or equivalent language) skills for data manipulation and automation.
- Hands-on experience with cloud platforms ( AWS , Azure , GCP ).
- Familiarity with Databricks Workflows and other orchestration tools.
- Knowledge of data modelling methodologies (star schemas, Data Vault, Kimball, Inmon).
- Familiarity with medallion architectures, data lakehouse principles and distributed data processing .
- Experience with version control tools ( GitHub , Bitbucket ) and CI/CD pipelines.
- Understanding of data governance , security, and compliance frameworks.
- Exposure to AI/ML workloads desirable.
Experience, Qualifications, and Education
- Experience: Minimum 5–8 years in data engineering, data warehousing, or data architecture roles, with at least 3+ years working with Databricks .
- Education: University degree required.
- Preferred: BSc/MSc in Computer Science, Data Engineering, or related field
- Databricks certifications (Data Engineer Professional) highly desirable.
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