Databricks Lead

Role Overview

The Data Engineer Lead will be responsible for designing, building, and optimizing data pipelines and platforms to enable advanced analytics and business intelligence across the organization. This role requires strong expertise in Databricks, SQL, AWS, and Airflow, combined with a solid foundation in data analysis and engineering best practices. The ideal candidate will lead a team of data engineers, collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders, and ensure scalable, secure, and high-performing data solutions. solutions.

Key Responsibilities

Technical Design Design

Build design specifications, data models, pipeline patterns, and solution architectures for the workstream.

Lead the design, development, and maintenance of data pipelines and ETL workflows using Databricks and Airflow.

Build reusable frameworks, templates, and engineering standards for ETL/ELT, streaming, and batch pipelines.

Ensure cloud-native designs aligned with AWS platform best practices.

Governance, Security & Optimization

Ensure data quality, integrity, and governance across data platforms.

Optimize SQL queries and data models for performance and scalability.

Build standards for Unity Catalog, lineage, metadata, glossary, and security policies.

Build data quality frameworks, observability, and operational monitoring.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

Work closely with stakeholders to understand data requirements and translate them into technical solutions.

Collaborate with analytics and business teams to deliver actionable insights through BI dashboards and reports.

Support estimations, and sizing for new programs and migrations migrations.

AI/LLM Enablement (Advantage)

Design frameworks for agentic workflows, GenAI-based automation, code generation, data quality validation, and metadata enrichment.

Build Databricks Model Serving, Vector Search, and AI/BI integration.

Required Skills & Experience

6-8 8-18 years of experience in data engineering, with at least 3 years in Databricks.

Deep hands-on expertise in:

o PySpark, Spark SQL, Delta Lake, Unity Catalog

o Databricks Workflows, Delta Live Tables (DLT), SQL Warehouses, Photon

o Streaming, batch, and real-time architectures

Expertise in Databricks for big data processing and analytics.

Strong proficiency in SQL for data modeling and query optimization.

Solid understanding of AWS services (S3, Redshift, Glue, Lambda, etc) for data engineering.

Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with attention to detail.

Excellent communication and leadership skills to manage teams and stakeholders.

Preferred Qualifications

Databricks Certified Data Engineer Professional or Databricks Architect certification.

Experience with Databricks AI/BI, Lakehouse Federation, and Airflow.

Familiarity with Airflow DAGs.

AWS certification in data analytics or related specialization.

Knowledge of LLMs, agentic frameworks, or GenAI automation (strong advantage).

Work Environment

This position is based in Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, and offers a hybrid work environment. Relocation is allowed for this role.