Job Description: Associate Director-Data Engineering (Databricks Lakehouse Architect + Cloud Data Engineering Leader)

About our Client -

Client is a leading SAP consulting and digital transformation partner committed to delivering innovative, high-impact solutions across enterprise analytics, cloud, and intelligent business platforms.

As enterprises modernize their data landscapes, the role of traditional data warehousing is rapidly evolving into scalable cloud-native Data Lakehouse architectures. Applexus is expanding its modern data engineering capabilities to help customers integrate enterprise data from SAP and non-SAP ecosystems, build advanced analytics platforms, and enable future-ready AI-driven solutions.

We are looking for an accomplished Databricks Lakehouse Architect / Cloud Data Engineering Leader who can play a key role in this transformation journey — designing up-to-date data platforms, leading cloud data engineering initiatives, and bridging enterprise analytics with next-generation technologies.

The ideal candidate will combine strong hands-on expertise in Databricks, Spark/PySpark, Delta Lake, and Azure/AWS cloud platforms with the ability to engage customers, architect solutions, guide engineering teams, and drive successful delivery.

Role Overview:

We are looking for a hands-on Data Engineering leader who can architect modern cloud data platforms using Databricks Lakehouse and lead solution design, delivery, and engineering teams. This role requires strong technical ownership rather than a pure people management background.

Key Responsibilities:

• Architect scalable Data Lakehouse platforms

• Own solution design, estimation, architecture reviews and client discussions

• Build and optimize enterprise data pipelines





• Provide technical guidance to data engineering teams

• Establish best practices around performance, governance and architecture

Must Have - Databricks Architecture:

• Databricks Lakehouse design

• Delta Lake implementation

• Apache Spark / PySpark engineering

• Medallion architecture (Bronze/Silver/Gold layers)

• Data pipeline optimization

• Unity Catalog and data governance exposure

Cloud Platform Expertise (depth in one required):

Microsoft Azure:

• Azure Databricks

• Azure Data Factory (ADF)

• Azure Data Lake Storage (ADLS)

• Azure Synapse Analytics

OR

Amazon AWS:

• Databricks on AWS

• Amazon S3

• AWS Glue

• Redshift

• Athena

Good to Have:

• Snowflake

• ML Engineering exposure

• Cloud/Data Engineering certifications

Ideal Candidate:

A hands-on architect who can talk to customers, design solutions, estimate projects, guide engineers and review architecture while helping build a modern Data Engineering practice.

We are looking for an accomplished Databricks Lakehouse Architect / Cloud Data Engineering Leader who can play a key role in this transformation journey — designing modern data platforms, leading cloud data engineering initiatives, and bridging enterprise analytics with next-generation technologies.

The ideal candidate will combine strong hands-on expertise in Databricks, Spark/PySpark, Delta Lake, and Azure/AWS cloud platforms with the ability to engage customers, architect solutions, guide engineering teams, and drive successful delivery.

If you are a hands-on Data Architect who enjoys building modern data platforms and wants to move beyond execution into solution ownership and leadership, I would love to connect.

Skills:- databricks, Data engineering, Architecture, Delta Lake, Apache, PySpark and Amazon Web Services (AWS)

📌 Associate Director – Databricks Architect (Thiruvananthapuram)
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📍 Thiruvananthapuram