Databricks Solutions Architect Associate Director

JOB REQUISITION

Databricks Solutions Architect Associate Director

LOCATION

NEW YORK CITY

ADDITIONAL LOCATION(S)

WASHINGTON DC - MCLEAN

JOB DESCRIPTION

You Belong Here

The Protiviti Career provides opportunity to learn inspire and advance within a collaborative and inclusive culture. We hire curious individuals for whom learning is a passion. We lean into our mission: We Care. We Collaborate. We Deliver.

At every level we champion leaders who live our values of integrity inclusion innovation and commitment to success . Imagining our work as a journey we believe integrity guides our way inclusion moves us forward together innovation creates new destinations and our commitment to success empowers us to deliver on our vision to be the most trusted global consulting firm.

Where We Need You

Protiviti is looking for a Technology Consulting Associate Director to join our growing Enterprise Data & Analytics team.

What You Can Expect

As an Associate Director youll take a lead role in strengthening our relationships with clients and providing seamless guidance in the completion of engagements. Youll partner with our strategic clients to manage risk associated with their use of technology. Youll develop strategies to solve complex business problems using new ways of thinking and devise solutions to support your clients needs through analytics automation or the latest tools and methods.

Youll develop new projects help identify new business and build lasting relationships with clients and within the community as you serve as an ambassador of Protiviti in the market. You will also be a mentor and provide growth and development to teams as you oversee the successful completion of project work plans.

What Will Help You Be Successful

• You enjoy designing and delivering modern data engineering solutions with Databricks.

• You are passionate about building trusted relationships with C-level executives and providing exceptional experiences that translate to additional project work.

• You have an inherent interest in project management and team leadership.

• You promote a positive team culture that fosters open communication among all engagement team members.

• You create development opportunities for others including participating in the creation and rollout of training and ways for your team to improve our clients and communities.

• You enjoy discovering prospective project work with current and potential clients through networking knowledge-building and client interactions.

• You excel at identifying opportunities to integrate product solutions and resources to improve client service capabilities.

• You view client challenges as opportunities to add value and can translate that into new project proposals and sales.

• You are seen as a valued contributor to thought leadership and encourage knowledge-sharing and collaboration across teams.

• You have interest in managing a diverse portfolio of clients across industries.

Do Your Talents Include the Following

You demonstrate Leadership & Management capabilities through the following:

• You care about the success and well-being of both your clients and colleagues.

• You collaborate by creating a team environment where everyone feels that they are valued welcomed and can contribute their ideas.

• You deliver and earn the trust of your clients and colleagues by building best-in-class solutions and managing deliverables.

You have experience with many and familiarity with most of the following Concepts and Methodologies:

• Ability to articulate the value of Databricks capabilities to customers and colleagues and proven track record of data storytelling to guide decision-making.

• Participation in the process of formulating communicating and executing data strategies that align with organizational goals and objectives leveraging Databricks and relevant technologies.

• Experience in assessing existing data solutions whether on-premises or in the cloud to inform improvement initiatives.

• Advanced skills in architecting future state data solutions using Well-Architected Frameworks aligned to Databricks.

• Experience in planning and migrating data solutions from various sources including on-premises other cloud platforms or legacy systems to Databricks.

• Highly proficient with implementing ETL processes and databases using either Databricks or complimentary solutions.

• Significant experience optimizing existing data implementations including pipelines queries and data models to enhance performance and delivery of value to the business.

• Knowledge of administering and maintaining data solutions to ensure stability security scalability and affordability.

• Highly proficient in data engineering including data movement data integration transformation and cleansing.

• Ability to lead designing managing and optimizing data warehousing / modern data platform .

• Highly skilled in data modeling including entity-relationship diagrams dimensional modeling and semantic modeling.

• Ability to perform data analytics including exploratory data analysis and leveraging data for actionable insights.

• Experience with implementing data governance frameworks and policies including an understanding of managing data assets using Unity Catalog.

• Understanding of data security practices including encryption and access control.

• Knowledge of networking as it applies to configuring Databricks on-prem or within cloud solutions.

• Understanding of DevOps or DataOps concepts and experience with the deployment of Databricks solutions.

• Expert in SQL and Spark (PySpark & Spark SQL) and bonus for familiarity with any of the programming languages such as C# Java Scala R DAX MDX or M.

• Bonus: Experience with Data Science and/or Machine Learning.

Competency with at least 3 and exposure to most of these technologies:

• Databricks Lakehouse architecture and medallion design patterns

• Unity Catalog governance lineage access controls and data sharing

• Apache Spark development using PySpark Spark SQL and Delta Lake

• Data engineering with Auto Loader Lakeflow Declarative Pipelines and workflow orchestration

• Databricks Asset Bundles Git integration CI/CD and environment promotion

• Databricks SQL serverless compute query optimization and performance tuning

• Bonus: Mosaic AI MLflow model serving and generative AI capabilities

• Establishing and cultivating business relationships and a professional network including with senior executives.

• Successfully pursuing business development opportunities and identifying and implementing strategies to obtain new work or clientele.

• Ability to translate and communicate issues risks or challenges to client personnel including executives.

• Leadership and direct supervisory experience of teams including conducting performance appraisals mentoring and coaching oversight and review of work coordination across teams and understanding how to motivate.

Your Educational and Professional Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in a relevant discipline (e.g. MIS CIS Analytics)

• 9 years working in professional services or related industry

• Professional Certification

• Required : Professional Databricks certification (Databricks Certified Data Engineer Professional or Databricks Certified Machine Learning Professional)

• Preferred : Databricks Champion.

Our Hybrid Workplace

Protiviti practices a hybrid model which is a combination of working in person with a purpose and working remotely. This model creates meaningful experiences for our people and our clients while offering a flexible environment. The ratio of remote to in-person requirements vary by client project team and other business factors. Our people work both in-person in local Protiviti offices and on client sites which can include local or out-of-state travel based on our projects and client requests and commitments.

Starting salary is based on a full-time equivalent schedule. Placement in the range is dependent upon experience skills and geographic work location. Below is the salary range for this job.

$173000.00 - $295000.00

Our annual bonus plan provides eligible employees additional cash and/or discretionary stock compensation opportunities. Below is the bonus target opportunity for this job.

16%

The total cash range is estimated from the sum of the base salary range plus the bonus target opportunity. Below is the estimated total cash range for this job.

$200680.00 - $342200.00

Employees are eligible for medical dental and vision coverages FSA and HSA healthcare accounts life and accident insurance adoption and fertility assistance paid parental leave up to 10 weeks and short/long term disability. We offer eligible employees a company 401(k) savings and investment plan with an employer match of 50% on the first 6% of your contributions. We provide Choice Time Off (CTO) for vacation personal needs and sick time. The amount of (CTO) varies based on years of service. New hires receive up to 20 days of CTO per calendar year. Protiviti also recognizes up to 11 paid holidays each calendar year.

Learn more about the variety of rewards we offer at Protiviti at benefits outlined are part of our reward offerings for full-time employees in the U.S. Your Open Enrollment materials insurance contracts plan documents and Summary Plan Descriptions together comprise the official plan document which legally governs the administration of your benefit plans. Protiviti reserves the right to terminate or amend your benefit plans in any way and at any time.

Protiviti is an Equal Opportunity Employer. M/F/Disability/Veteran

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NY PRO NEW YORK CITY

Required Experience:

Director