Senior Platform Engineer - Databricks Champion

About the Position

We are looking for a Senior Platform Engineer - Databricks Champion to join our team at Kolomolo in Kraków, Poland. This role is full-time and offers a hybrid work environment. If you are proactive, tech-savvy, and eager to build your career in IT, this role could be your perfect fit.

Responsibilities

As a Senior Platform Engineer, you will play a key role in evolving and scaling our Databricks-based data platform while enabling adoption across multiple domain teams. Your responsibilities will include:

• Platform Adoption & Spoke Team Enablement

  • Act as the go-to Databricks expert for spoke teams across the organisation.
  • Support teams through onboarding, architecture reviews, and hands-on technical coaching.
  • Create workshops, reference implementations, and reusable patterns that accelerate adoption.
  • Improve developer experience by reducing platform friction and simplifying workflows.
  • Proactively identify and remove blockers impacting adoption.

• Data Ingestion Framework Enhancement & Scale

  • Own and evolve the ODP ingestion framework for multi-source batch and near-real-time ingestion.
  • Increase robustness, extensibility, and reusability across spoke-specific connectors.
  • Embed observability, validation, and data quality directly into the framework.
  • Ensure platform patterns scale reliably as new data sources and teams onboard.

• Data Product Framework Enhancement & Standardisation

  • Evolve the ODP data product framework to support self-service product creation.
  • Build reusable templates and accelerators to enable faster delivery.
  • Strengthen data-sharing capabilities for internal marketplace and external partner use cases.
  • Promote standardisation and consistency across teams.

• Unity Catalog Governance & Access Control

  • Design and implement Unity Catalog access control models.
  • Ensure governance remains scalable, auditable, and aligned with enterprise security requirements.
  • Support secure data sharing and permissions management across domains.

• Databricks Feature Exploration & Enablement

  • Stay ahead of the Databricks roadmap and evaluate new capabilities for the platform.
  • Assess and pilot features such as:
    • Databricks AI/BI, including Genie and Dashboards
    • Lakeflow and declarative pipelines
    • Serverless compute policies
  • Translate findings into practical enablement plans.
  • Drive adoption of validated capabilities across the platform.

Requirements

• Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, information systems, engineering, or equivalent.
• Experience working in agile/scrum delivery teams.
• Deep hands-on experience with:
  • Apache Spark (Python and SQL)
  • Databricks Jobs, Workflows, Notebooks, and Declarative Asset Bundles
  • Observability, Lakeflow, and Autoloader
  • Unity Catalog governance, access control, and data sharing.
• Strong hands-on experience with AWS services (e.g., S3, Glue, Lambda, IAM, EKS, Redshift), with the last 5 years working with AWS Cloud Infrastructure.
• Experience of working with multi account cloud infrastructure.
• Proficiency in Terraform, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), CICD.
• Familiarity with Kubernetes setup and operations.
• Proven experience building reusable frameworks for:
  • Data ingestion
  • Data transformation
  • Data product delivery
• Programming skills in Python.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.

We Offer

• Competitive salary and benefits.
• Career development opportunities in a growing tech company.
• Continuous learning culture: mentorship, internal training, and certifications.
• Flexible, agile work environment (remote, hybrid, or on-site in Kraków).
• Office perks: great coffee, tea, fresh fruit, snacks, and a fun atmosphere.
• Flat management structure, where your voice matters.
• Regular team events and a social, supportive work culture.
• Independent Contractor.

About the Company

Kolomolo is a leader in digital modernization, helping companies embrace the latest cutting-edge technologies to optimize their business with the help of our talented experts. Founded in 2016, we have about 100 co-workers and a turnover of 5M. We prioritize innovation, agility, and autonomy, offering an inclusive culture where everyone thrives.

Join Kolomolo and elevate your career with cutting-edge technology, a supportive team, and a company that truly values your input.

Ready for the next step? Apply now and start an exciting journey of growth and innovation with us!