We are hiring a senior, deeply hands-on Databricks Lead / Data Architect to drive the Databricks workstream of a large-scale data and AI modernization program for a major Canadian enterprise retail client.
This is a build-and-lead role: you will own the technical direction of Databricks-based solutions end to end — architecture, lakehouse design, data engineering, migration of legacy ETL workloads, and production operations — while remaining personally hands-on in code and design.
You will work side by side with the client’s VP of Data & AI and the AVP of Data Platforms & Integration and their teams, acting as the senior technical authority who turns strategy into delivered, production-grade outcomes.
The immediate focus is modernizing a large on-premise ETL estate (IBM DataStage) to an Azure-native lakehouse on Azure Data Factory and Databricks, and then scaling the platform to power enterprise analytics and AI use case...