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<p><b>Job Requisition ID:</b> <span contenteditable="false">39344</span> </p> <div> <p><span style="font-family:tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt"> </span></p> <ul style="list-style-type:disc"> <li style="font-family:tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt">Be part of market-leading projects with global scale and complexity.</span></li> <li style="font-family:tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt">Have your voice heard through people panels and leader forums.</span></li> <li style="font-family:tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt">Prioritise in-person connection with your team and clients, with flexibility to balance work and life.</span></li> </ul> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-family:tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt">Deloitte’s AI & Data team is transforming how businesses leverage cloud-native technologies to solve complex challenges in data, machine learning, and AI. As a Director, you will lead strategic initiatives, drive innovation, and deliver impactful solutions for our clients. </span></p> <p><span style="font-family:tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt"> </span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-family:tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt"><strong>What will your typical day look like? </strong></span></p> <p><span style="font-family:tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt"> </span></p> <p><span style="font-family:tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt"> </span></p> </div> <div> <div> <div> <div> <p><span style="font-family:tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt">As a Senior Databricks Specialist, your typical day is centred around designing, building, and scaling modern data and AI platforms that help enterprise clients unlock real business value from their data.</span></p> <p> </p> <ul> <li style="font-family:tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt">You will work within Deloitte’s Data & AI practice, leveraging cloud native and Databricks Lakehouse technologies to solve complex data engineering, machine learning, and AI challenges across large scale transformation programs.</span></li> <li style="font-family:tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt">Your day will involve leading technical solution design sessions with clients, architecting end to end Databricks platforms, and guiding engineering teams on best practices across Spark, Delta Lake, and cloud data engineering patterns.</span></li> <li style="font-family:tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt">You will collaborate with stakeholders across business and technology teams to translate requirements into scalable data solutions, while also ensuring performance, reliability, and governance standards are met.</span></li> <li style="font-family:tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt">A key part of your role will include driving delivery across multiple workstreams, mentoring engineers, and supporting continuous improvement of CI CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, and automated deployment practices.</span></li> <li style="font-family:tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt">You will also contribute to shaping Deloitte’s cloud and AI capabilities, working on some of the most complex and high impact data programs across Australia and the APAC region.</span></li> <li style="font-family:tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt">You’ll also be responsible for coaching, developing, and inspiring your team, setting high standards for delivery excellence and technical leadership. </span></li> </ul> </div> <div> </div> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-family:tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt">Join us as we continue to expand into a cloud-centric and AI driven future, working on some of the largest and most complex projects within Australia & APAC. </span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-family:tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt"><strong>About the team: </strong></span></p> <p> </p> <div> <p><span style="font-family:tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt">Our diverse AI & Data team comprises over 500 specialist practitioners across Australia, each of whom are constantly curious and excited about combining their business acumen and technological expertise to create data-centric solutions that help solve complex problems and transform, or reinvent our client’s business. </span></p> </div> <div> <p><span style="font-family:tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt">Our Data & AI teamwork with public and private sector clients helping them to design and implement world leading solutions and capabilities. From solving air and ground transport network issues through our industry-first Optimal Reality digital twin solution, bringing automation capabilities to vaccine rollout programs, to helping our clients move to a sustainable world, we are the partner of choice for our clients and our alliance vendors. </span></p> </div> <div> <p><span style="font-family:tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt">Our relationships with market leading vendors such as AWS, Databricks, Google, dbt Labs, Snowflake, Salesforce, and Informatica enable our practitioners to be at the forefront of new and emerging capabilities and to deliver our suite of services at scale. We are consistently recognised as leaders in Cloud, Data, Analytics and AI, including in the latest analyst reports. </span></p> </div> </div> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-family:tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt"><strong> E</strong><strong>nough about us, let’s talk about you. </strong></span></p> </div> <div> <div> <div> <div> <div> <div> <div dir="auto" tabindex="0"> <div> <div> <p><span style="font-family:tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt">We are seeking a Senior Databricks Specialist Lead to join our Data & AI consulting practice, driving enterprise scale data platform and lakehouse transformations for leading clients.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family:tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt">Key capabilities:</span></p> <ul> <li style="font-family:tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt">8 to 12 years of experience in Data Engineering, Cloud, or Software Engineering, with strong hands on Python and backend development expertise.</span></li> <li style="font-family:tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt">Deep expertise in <strong>Databricks and Lakehouse architecture,</strong> including Apache Spark (PySpark or Scala), Delta Lake, and Medallion architecture.</span></li> <li style="font-family:tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt">Proven experience delivering large scale data and AI solutions on AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud <strong>using Databricks as a core platform.</strong></span></li> <li style="font-family:tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt">Strong consulting and client facing experience, with ability to lead solution design, stakeholder engagement, and end to end delivery.</span></li> <li style="font-family:tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt">Expertise in modern data engineering practices including batch, streaming, and real time analytics pipelines for AI and advanced analytics use cases.</span></li> <li style="font-family:tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt">Strong experience with CI CD and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Git, automated deployment pipelines) in cloud data environments.</span></li> <li style="font-family:tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt">Advanced SQL and performance tuning skills across distributed data systems, along with strong troubleshooting and optimisation capability in Spark and cloud environments.</span></li> <li style="font-family:tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt">Leadership experience in mentoring engineers, defining best practices, and driving technical excellence across teams and client engagements.</span></li> <li style="font-family:tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt">Industry certifications in Databricks (Databricks Certified Data Engineer / Databricks Certified Professional) and cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP) are highly desirable and strongly preferred.</span></li> </ul> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div> <div> <div> </div> </div> </div> <div> </div> <div> <div> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-family:tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt"><strong>Why Deloitte?</strong></span></p> <p> </p> </div> <div> <p><span style="font-family:tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt">At Deloitte, we focus our energy on interesting and impactful work. We’re always learning, innovating and setting the standard; making a positive difference to our clients and our society. We put coaching at the heart of what we do, helping our people grow their careers in any direction – whether it be up, moving into something new, or even moving across the world. </span></p> </div> <div> <p><span style="font-family:tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt">We embrace diversity, equity and inclusion. We have a diverse collection of people from different backgrounds, with different experiences, gender identities, abilities and thinking styles. What binds us together is a shared commitment to value everyone’s perspective and to cultivate inclusion; so that our work environment is a safe space we can all belong. </span></p> </div> <div> <p><span style="font-family:tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt">We value in-person connection with our clients and our colleagues. We offer several ways for you to work flexibly so that you can serve your clients, stay connected with your team, and manage your personal priorities. </span></p> </div> <div> <p><span style="font-family:tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt">We help you live and work well. To support your personal and professional life, we offer a range of <a href="https://www2.deloitte.com/au/en/pages/careers/articles/benefits-discounts.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">perks and benefits</a>, including retail discounts, wellbeing leave, paid volunteering days, twelve flexible working options, market-leading parental leave and return to work support package. </span></p> </div> <div> <p><span style="font-family:tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt"> </span></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-family:tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt"><strong>Next Steps</strong> </span></p> <p> </p> </div> <div> <p><span style="font-family:tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt">Sound like the sort of role for you? Apply now, we’d love to hear from you! </span></p> </div> </div><p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p class="paragraph"><em><span><span style="vertical-align:baseline"><span><span><span style="color:black">By applying for this job, you’ll be assessed against the Deloitte Talent Standards. We’ve designed these standards so that you can grow in your career, and we can provide our clients with a consistent and exceptional Deloitte employee experience globally.</span></span> <span><span style="color:black">The preferred candidate will be subject to background screening by Deloitte or by their external third-party provider.</span></span></span></span></span></em></p>