Role Summary

Avanade India’s Data & AI practice is looking for a Databricks Architect to drive presales solutioning and technical architecture for up-to-date data estate, data lake, data warehouse, and data migration engagements built on Azure Databricks, stepping into delivery leadership as engagements require. This is a client-facing role for someone who enjoys shaping opportunities as much as solving hard architecture problems — from client workshops and proposal-stage solutioning through to guiding implementation teams when needed.

Key Responsibilities

Lead presales solutioning for Azure Databricks opportunities — architecture proposals, effort estimation, solution demos, and client workshops — partnering with account and practice leadership on pursuits.
Design end-to-end Azure Databricks solution architectures, including Lakehouse (Delta Lake), Unity Catalog, Databricks SQL, Workflows, and integration with Power BI and the broader Azure ecosystem.
Define data platform strategy, target-state architecture, and migration roadmaps in collaboration with client stakeholders.




Architect modern data estate builds — data lake, data warehouse, and lakehouse patterns — including migrations from legacy platforms (on-prem warehouses, Synapse, Snowflake, or other cloud data platforms) to Azure Databricks.
Step into delivery as needed to provide technical leadership on active engagements: solution design, architecture governance, design reviews, performance and cost optimization, and production readiness.
Establish data architecture standards, security/governance models (Unity Catalog, data lineage, access control), and CI/CD/DevOps practices for Azure Databricks-based delivery.
Act as a trusted technical advisor to client stakeholders, translating business requirements into scalable, well-governed data architectures.
Mentor data engineers and architects on project teams; contribute to reusable accelerators and IP for the practice.
Stay current with the Databricks roadmap and b

📌 Databricks Architect (Bengaluru)
🏢 Avanade
📍 Bengaluru