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Day Rate - £700
Working pattern - Hybrid 2-3 days onsite
Location - London / Glasgow / Cardiff
SC Security Clearance required
Role Purpose
To design, implement, and enable a secure Azure Databricks platform aligned with architecture, security standards, and operating model. The role will establish reference patterns, governance controls, and onboarding guidance to support decentralised teams.
Job Description: Databricks Solution Architect
Role Title: Databricks Solution Architect
Role Purpose
To design, implement, and enable a secure Azure Databricks platform that aligns with architecture, security standards, and operating model. The role will establish reference patterns, governance controls, and onboarding guidance to support decentralised teams.
Key Responsibilities
- Design and deploy Azure Databricks using secure, enterprise patterns
- Configure Databricks workspaces, clusters, and policies aligned with cost and security guardrails.
- Implement Unity Catalog including metastores, access connectors, external locations, and fine-grained RBAC recommending best practices
- Define and implement least-privilege access models for multiple teams.
- Support security and TDA assurance with architecture diagrams, control mappings, and risk mitigations.
- Define reference patterns for data ingestion, transformation, and data product creation.
- Support use cases across analytics, data engineering, and machine learning.
- Establish standards for data isolation, sharing, and lineage.
- Create onboarding playbooks and guardrails for internal teams.
- Define “how to use” and “how not to use” Databricks
- Provide knowledge transfer to internal engineers and architects.
- Work closely with Cloud Architecture, Security, CDP teams, and TDA.
Essential Skills & Experience
- Proven experience designing and delivering Azure Databricks in enterprise or public sector environments.
- Deep hands-on knowledge of:
· Unity Catalog
· Azure networking (VNets, Private Link, NSGs, UDRs)
· ADLS Gen2 integration and access control
· Entra ID / Azure AD integration
- Experience supporting security assurance and architecture governance.
- Strong understanding of data platform operating models and data product concepts.
Key Deliverables
- Secure Databricks platform implemented in Azure.
- Reference architecture and design documentation.
- Governance and RBAC models.
- Onboarding and operating guides.
- Final evaluation findings and adoption recommendation.
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