Databricks Lead Engineer - Hybrid - Contract

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The role will take technical ownership of Databricks lakehouse solutions, covering ingestion through to curated serving layers. Responsibilities will include implementing Medallion Architecture, Unity Catalog, Declarative Pipelines and scalable Databricks-native ingestion patterns while mentoring engineers and driving production-quality delivery. What’s on offer Up to £575 per day Inside IR35 Initial 6-month contract with potential extension Hybrid working with three days per week on-site in London ASAP start Technical leadership of a strategic Databricks implementation Opportunity to shape engineering standards, reusable patterns and delivery practices What you need At least two years of recent, hands-on Databricks experience Evidence of delivering Databricks solutions into production environments An active Databricks Data Engineering, Machine Learning or Generative AI certification Strong experience implementing Medallion Architecture across Bronze, Silver and Gold layers Hands-on Unity Catalog experience covering catalog design, access controls, lineage and secure data sharing Experience developing Declarative Pipelines with Expectations, including failure handling and observability Knowledge of Auto Loader, Lakeflow Connect and batch, streaming or incremental ingestion patterns Production-level PySpark and SQL development skills Strong knowledge of Delta Lake, including MERGE, schema evolution, OPTIMIZE, ZORDER and VACUUM Experience with Databricks Workflows, orchestration and CI/CD Understanding of monitoring, alerting, replay, backfill and operational support strategies Ability to mentor engineers and act as the technical escalation point Experience with RBAC, data masking, Photon, cluster optimisation or cost management would be beneficial Exposure to Mosaic AI, Vector Search, model serving, RAG or Lakebase would be advantageous Apply Anson Mccade Other Sectors and Industries Similar Databricks Lead Engineer Jobs Popular with Other Job Seekers Data Engineer - Hybrid - Contract Anson Mccade London From £400 to £460 per day 1 week ago Investment Data Engineer Sanderson Recruitment London £650 - £750 per day 3 weeks ago Data Engineer Morson Edge UK £600 - 650 per day + None 3 weeks ago Lead Data Engineer IO Associates London £400 - 550 per day 6 days ago Data Engineer (SC) Sanderson Recruitment London Up to £425 per day + Inside IR-35 3 weeks ago Real-Time Data Engineer Sanderson Recruitment London £600 - £650 per day 2 weeks ago GCP data engineer EUROPEAN SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS (UK) LIMITED Bristol (BS1) £500 per day 6 days ago Data Engineer, Vice President BlackRock London 3 days ago Data Engineer Robert Walters Swansea (SA1), SA1 £250 - £350 per day 1 day ago Data Architect, Enterprise OT Asset Data Products Experis London £500.00 - £550.00 per day 6 days ago Databricks Lead Engineer - Hybrid - Contract jobs Engineering jobs Management jobs Full Time jobs Weekend jobs Retail jobs Night Shift jobs Apprenticeship jobs NHS jobs HGV jobs Immediate Start jobs Warehouse jobs Cleaning jobs No Experience jobs Remote jobs Admin jobs Apprenticeships jobs Administration jobs Tesco jobs Get hired. 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