Azure Databricks Engineer

Quick Facts

• Role: Azure Databricks Engineer

• Work model: Hybrid (3 days/week on-site)

• Location: Kraków (candidates must live in or near Kraków)

• Contract/Rate: 135–160 PLN/h (B2B)

Description

Build batch and real-time data solutions in Azure Databricks for analytics and downstream data products. The work includes Spark pipelines, Kafka-based streaming into ADLS Gen2, near real-time feature derivation for ML inference, and Databricks performance optimization using Lakehouse/Medallion patterns.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement big data solutions in Azure Databricks for batch and real-time analytics

• Build Spark pipelines to populate downstream data marts for BI and generate feeds for Data Science

• Integrate real-time services processing business events from Kafka and persist them in ADLS Gen2 using Databricks

• Develop near real-time stream processing to derive features for ML model inference

• Optimize Databricks performance (e.g., liquid clustering, vacuum, Z-ordering)

• Work with DevOps teams to drive operationally excellent infrastructure

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science, Engineering or Science

• 8–10 years of experience, including 5+ years with Azure cloud-native services

• Strong hands-on experience with Azure Databricks, Delta Lake, Python/PySpark, and Spark

• Knowledge of Lakehouse, Data Mesh, Data Virtualisation, dimensional modelling, and data aggregation techniques

• Experience building distributed data platforms at large scale (e.g., Spark, Kafka, Flink, HBase)

• Hadoop-based implementations, SQL/T-SQL, Unix and Hive

• Azure Data Factory, ADLS Gen2 and Azure SQL Database

• Good understanding of RDBMS, Data Lake, Data Warehouse, Lakehouse and Medallion Architecture

• At least one workflow orchestration tool (Apache Airflow, Luigi, Oozie, AWS Glue or similar)

• Knowledge of Microsoft Fabric and basic understanding of data quality dimensions

• Fluent English

• Polish or EU citizenship, or a permanent residence/work permit valid for at least 12 months

Benefits

• Rate: 135–160 PLN/h (B2B), depending on experience

• Hybrid work in Kraków (3 days/week on-site)

• Full-time role

Recruitment Process

• One interview with the IT services partner, followed by 1–3 interviews with the bank

• Technical tasks are done live; set up and test your programming environment beforehand. No AI tools, coding assistants, or code generators during interviews

• Background check by HireRight covering identity, right to work, education, and employment history

• Candidate name on the application and CV must match official ID exactly (Polish citizens: include all first names)

• Not eligible if you participated in a recruitment process for this IT services partner or this bank in the last 12 months