Databricks Specialist

NTT Data Italia S.P.A. is a leading IT services company that is part of the multinational NTT DATA group. With a strong presence in over 50 countries, we offer a wide range of services including digital transformation, consulting, and cybersecurity. Our mission is to create value for our clients through innovation.

We have a global presence with over 6000 employees in 11 cities across Italy, including Milano, Roma, Torino, and Bari. Our company culture is built on the principles of care, listening, and employee well-being, with a focus on developing our people's skills and competencies.

We are seeking a Databricks Expert to join our Data&Intelligence Service Line. As a Databricks Expert, you will play a key role in supporting our customers in Big Data projects, working closely with business analysts and solution architects to understand use cases, data needs, and outcome objectives.

Your responsibilities will include delivering data acquisition, transformations, and improvement, cleansing, conversion, compression, and loading of data into data lakes for consumption by analytics and machine learning models. You will also be responsible for finding innovative solutions to everyday issues in a cloud native environment.

• Working experience in a cloud native environment in at least one of the 3 major public clouds (GCP/AWS/Azure)
• 5 years experience on Databricks is preferred
• Experience and knowledge of Big Data Architectures, cloud and on premise
• Azure infrastructure and networking working experience
• Experience in building and deliver proofs-of-concept, in order to address specific business needs, using the most appropriate techniques, data sources and technologies
• Working experience in migrating workloads from on premise to cloud environment
• Experience in monitoring distributed infrastructure, using Azure tools or open source ones (es: Grafana, Prometheus)
• Proven experience in: Java, Scala, Python, and shell scripting
• SQL language knowledge
• Experience in leading medium teams
• Working experience with: Apache Spark, Databricks, Azure Data Factory, Azure Synapse, and other Azure related ETL/ELT tools
• Microsoft Certification: at least one certification on Azure or Databricks (Azure Data Engineer Associate, Azure Solutions Architect Expert, Databricks Spark Developer, Databricks Data Engineer, Databricks Machine Learning)

• Working experience with Agile Methodology and Kanban
• Other Big Data certifications, such as Cloudera, Databricks, etc. are welcome
• Experience with non Azure ETL/ELT solutions (Talend, Oracle Data Integrator, Informatica PowerCenter, etc.)
• Experience with Data Visualization solutions (PowerBI, Qlik, Tableau, etc.)

Location: Milano, Bari, Bologna, Cosenza, Napoli, Roma, Salerno, Torino