Databricks Consultant

About Deloitte AI & Engineering

Our Deloitte AI & Engineering team transforms technology platforms, drives innovation, and helps make a significant impact on our clients' success. You'll work alongside talented professionals reimagining and reengineering operations and processes that are critical to businesses. Your contributions can help clients improve financial performance, accelerate new digital ventures, and fuel growth through innovation.

Work You'll Do

As a Databricks Consultant at Deloitte, you will be at the forefront of helping our clients leverage the full power of the Databricks Platform. You will apply your real-world project experience to design, build, and optimize solutions that span data engineering, data analytics, and machine learning. This role requires hands-on expertise to help our clients build cutting-edge data capabilities on major cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP)

Key Responsibilities

• Data Engineering: Apply your project experience to design, develop, test, and maintain scalable data pipelines and data products using tools like Autoloader, Declarative Pipelines, and Structured Streaming.
• BI & Data Analytics: Enable business intelligence and data analytics by building and optimizing Databricks SQL endpoints, data models, and integrations with BI tools.
• Machine Learning: Assist in the development and deployment of machine learning models using Databricks, Unity Catalog for governance, and MLflow for the ML lifecycle.
• Client Advisory: Advise clients on best practices for implementing and operating the full suite of Databricks capabilities, drawing from successful real-world use cases.
• Technical Implementation: Engage in the hands-on implementation of comprehensive Databricks solutions, from data ingestion and transformation to AI/ML model deployment.

The Team

Deloitte's Government & Public Services (GPS) practice - our people, ideas, technology and outcomes - is designed for impact. Serving federal, state, & local government clients as well as public higher education institutions, our team of professionals brings fresh perspective to help clients anticipate disruption, reimagine the possible, and fulfill their mission promise.

Our AI & Data offering provides a full spectrum of solutions for designing, developing, and operating cutting-edge Data and AI platforms, products, insights, and services. Our offerings help clients innovate, enhance and operate their data, AI, and analytics capabilities, ensuring they can mature and scale effectively.

Qualifications

Required:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship, now or at any time in the future
• Must be able to obtain and maintain a US government security clearance
• 2+ years of hands-on, real-world project experience developing and deploying solutions on the Databricks platform
• 2+ years of experience in SQL, Python, and Apache Spark
• 2+ years of experience with at least one major cloud platform (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and its surrounding data technologies
• Ability to travel up to 25%, on average, based on the work you do and the clients and industries/sectors you serve

Preferred:

• Strong problem-solving and communication skills
• Databricks certifications (e.g., Data Engineer Associate/Professional, Data Analyst Associate) are preferred
• Public sector experience preferred
• Active public sector clearance preferred

Compensation

The wage range for this role takes into account the wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions including but not limited to skill sets; experience and training; licensure and certifications; and other business and organizational needs. The disclosed range estimate has not been adjusted for the applicable geographic differential associated with the location at which the position may be filled. At Deloitte, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range for their role and compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. A reasonable estimate of the current range is $93,200 to $155,400.

You may also be eligible to participate in a discretionary annual incentive program, subject to the rules governing the program, whereby an award, if any, depends on various factors, including, without limitation, individual and organizational performance.