: Senior Databricks Consultant / ML & GenAI

Technical Skills and Experience
At least 4 years of hands-on Databricks experience and 2+ years working on ML/GenAI workloads.
Strong expertise in Databricks-based ML/GenAI architecture, model training, fine-tuning, evaluation, deployment, and monitoring.
Hands-on experience with Databricks Mosaic AI Model Training or custom LLM training on Databricks GPU clusters.
Proven experience fine-tuning open-source LLMs, preferably Llama-family models, using SFT, LoRA, or QLoRA in real-world projects.
Robust understanding of fine-tuning, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), continued pretraining, and training from scratch, including cost, performance, and quality trade-offs.
Experience in large-scale training data preparation, including cleaning, deduplication, labelling, synthetic data generation, and PII removal.
Knowledge of LLM evaluation, performance optimisation, production deployment, monitoring, and AI governance, including explainability and model risk management.

Consulting and Client-Facing Skills
Ability to translate business requirements into technical architectures and proof-of-concept (PoC)



plans.
Experience engaging with CTOs, senior engineering leaders, and client stakeholders.
Robust communication skills to explain technical solutions, implementation approaches, risks, and trade-offs.
Experience reviewing RFP responses, technical proposals, and solution presentations.

Preferred Qualifications
Domain experience in financial services, banking, lending, credit, or insurance.
Exposure to domain-adapted foundation models and continued pretraining.
Databricks Machine Learning Qualified and/or Generative AI Engineer Associate certification.
Demonstrable project experience through case studies, GitHub repositories, technical notebooks, publications, or conference presentations.

Engagement Details
Initial consulting requirement of approximately 18 hours.
Expected engagement timeframe: early to mid-November 2026.
Remote, client-facing consulting engagement.
Potential for further technical guidance or delivery support, subject to the project progressing.

📌 Consultant Senior Databricks / Ml & Gen Ai Kochi
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