DatabricksArchitect

At NCS Australia, we believe in doing technology services better. Our commitment to quality, focus on people, and willingness to challenge traditional thinking set us apart. Our team brings this belief to life by partnering with our clients and communities to make tomorrow together. We are committed to creating an environment that prioritises innovation, collaboration, and purposeful work. Our diverse team is empowered to make a meaningful impact with curiosity, creativity and resilience to shape better outcomes. Join us and accept the challenge of creating a better tomorrow. The role involves designing secure, scalable and cost‑efficient Databricks environments. It includes leading platform design, setting up strong governance controls and ensuring good integration with Azure, AWS or on‑prem workloads. The architect also leads migration of data and analytics workloads into Databricks and provides guidance on cluster, notebook and pipeline best practice. The role is responsible for designing the Databricks platform architecture, leading workload migrations, defining platform governance and security controls, and developing integration patterns while providing technical direction across clusters, notebooks and jobs. It also involves ongoing delivery support by reviewing solution designs, optimising pipelines and cluster performance, resolving technical platform issues, and working closely with project teams and stakeholders to ensure alignment with client expectations. In addition, the role contributes to capability uplift across the practice by sharing reusable patterns and best practices, coaching team members, and actively participating in internal and external Databricks community initiatives. ## Qualifications * Deep knowledge of Databricks, Spark, Delta Lake, Lakeflow * Strong understanding of big data patterns and architectures * Experience with Azure or AWS data and analytics workloads * Databricks Professional certification preferred * Clear written and verb