Databricks Specialist

Our client are a global consulting firm, working on a project in the Retail space, they are on the lookout for a Databricks Specialist to come in on a contract basis (full time, 8 hours per day, 5 days per week)

Key Skills/Requirements:

• Strong hands-on Databricks experience, ideally supported by a Databricks certification.
• Proven experience optimising Databricks usage and reducing cloud/platform costs.
• Strong AWS experience within large-scale data environments.
• Experience analysing Databricks compute, usage and cost drivers to identify avoidable spend.
• Ability to distinguish between new demand, organic growth and inefficient/avoidable usage.
• Proven track record of implementing cost-saving measures, rather than simply producing recommendations.
• Experience putting cost controls, monitoring and reporting in place to prevent future overspend.
• Comfortable working across large and complex data estates, with high volumes of pipelines and users/teams.
• Able to work with technical and business stakeholders to validate recommendations and drive implementation.
• Experience producing cost/savings reporting and dashboards for senior stakeholders.
• Databricks Unity Catalog experience would be beneficial.

Contract is running until the end of 2026 initially, paying up to €650p/day and will be fully remote in the EU (potentially some occasional travel but to be discussed)