Slalom
Slalom Flex (Project-based) - Sr. Databricks Engineer/Architect
On site · Orange County, CA
Employer posted October 24, 2026
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What the role needs
- Who You’ll Work With
- You'll work alongside our Slalom team helping to solve and deliver on complex engagements.
- What You’ll Do
- Come in as a Databricks subject matter expert helping to provide guidance to teams around adoption of the databricks platform
- Lead databricks projects to completion
- Support business development efforts and guiding clients through best practices in architecture, data engineering, and scalable analytics
- Lead and manage project-risk including planning, budgteing, deliverables, and executive-level alignment
- Provide technical and architectural guidance on databricks, modern data platforms, and cloud-native solutions
- Be a mentor and thought leader providing recommendations on emerging technologies and tools
- What You’ll Bring
- Completed degree with 8+ years of data engineering experience
- 4+ years of extensive hands-on experience with Databricks (including using Delta Lake, Delta Live Tables, Unity Catalog)
From the employer
Who You’ll Work With You'll work alongside our Slalom team helping to solve and deliver on complex engagements. What You’ll Do · Come in as a Databricks subject matter expert helping to provide guidance to teams around adoption of the databricks platform · Lead databricks projects to completion · Support business development efforts and guiding clients through best practices in architecture, data engineering, and scalable analytics · Lead and manage project-risk including planning, budgteing, deliverables, and executive-level alignment · Provide technical and architectural guidance on databricks, modern data platforms, and cloud-native solutions · Be a mentor and thought leader providing recommendations on emerging technologies and tools What You’ll Bring · Completed degree with 8+ years of data engineering experience · 4+ years of extensive hands-on experience with Databricks (including using Delta Lake, Delta Live Tables, Unity Catalog) · Experience overseeing large-scale data architecture projects · Experience providing leadership and strategic direction to engineering teams, ensuring alignment with customer objectives, maximizing the use of Databricks' features · Experience in big data platforms, cloud data warehouses, object-oriented programming, AI/ML About Us Slalom is a fiercely human business and technology consulting company that leads with outcomes to bring more value, in all ways, always. From strategy through delivery, our agile teams across 52 offices in 12 countries partner with clients to co-create powerful customer experiences, modern ways of working, and meaningful impact. What sets us apart? We believe work should be challenging and fulfilling, not perfect, but possible. That’s why we prioritize purpose, flexibility, connection, and recognition, so our people can thrive and love what they do, most days. Compensation and Benefits Slalom prides itself on helping team members thrive in their work and life. As a result, Slalom is proud to invest in benefits that include meaningful time off and paid holidays, parental leave, 401(k) with a match, a range of choices for highly subsidized health, dental, & vision coverage, adoption and fertility assistance, and short/long-term disability. We also offer yearly $350 reimbursement account for any well-being-related expenses, as well as discounted home, auto, and pet insurance. Slalom is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. For this role, we are hiring at the following levels and targeted base pay salary ranges: The targeted hourly pay range is $80/hr to $100/hr. A ctual compensation will depend upon an individual’s skills, experience, qualifications, location, and other relevant factors. The hourly pay range is subject to change and may be modified at any time. We are committed to pay transparency and compliance with applicable laws. If you have questions or concerns about the pay range or other compensation information in this posting, please contact us at: peopleone@slalom.com . Please note, this recipient is not able to support recruitment inquiries beyond this purpose. EEO and Accommodations Slalom is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to attracting, developing and retaining highly qualified talent who empower our innovative teams through unique perspectives and experiences. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veterans’ status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws. Slalom will also consider qualified applications with criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. Slalom welcomes and encourages applications from individuals with disabilities. Reasonable accommodations are available for candidates during all aspects of the selection process. Please advise the talent acquisition team or contact accomodationrequest@slalom.com if you require accommodations during the interview process. Locations: Los Angeles, CA; Orange County, CA; San Diego, CA
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