DysrupIT
DysrupIT
51 – 200 Employees
CybersecurityEnterpriseSaaS
DysrupIT is a cloud services and IT solutions company helping organizations modernize technology and move toward as-a-Service operating models. Its work spans enterprise cloud, managed services, application engineering, cybersecurity, and data analytics and information management, supporting businesses from small and medium-sized organizations to multinational enterprises. The company works with Microsoft and other cloud platforms, combining technical delivery with talent development, community impact, and long-term partnerships to build secure, scalable technology environments aligned with business needs.

Senior Data and AI Architect – DysrupIT (Philippines Remote)

Lead Databricks lakehouse architecture and production generative AI delivery for client engagements. Develop solution designs, proofs of concept, and reusable consulting assets from the Philippines.

Description

  • Lead technical solutioning before contract award and carry designs through to production delivery
  • Balance client engagement with hands-on delivery, adjusting the split to match the pipeline
  • Define technical approaches, test problem statements, and run discovery workshops
  • Develop target-state architectures, delivery plans, proposal assumptions, exclusions, risk registers, and reliable estimates
  • Design four- to six-week proofs of concept and advise client architects, data leaders, and CIOs as a technical peer
  • Own architecture end to end and, when needed, direct delivery, scope, stand-ups, and client-facing technical work
  • Build complex components and reference implementations directly
  • Deliver Databricks lakehouses using medallion architecture, Unity Catalog, Delta Lake, ingestion, and orchestration
  • Develop production generative AI solutions involving RAG, agents, evaluation, prompt and context engineering, cost, and latency
  • Establish standards for CI/CD, infrastructure as code, testing, observability, and cost management
  • Coach client engineers and oversee production readiness, transition, and handover
  • Convert delivery knowledge into reference architectures, accelerators, templates, and estimation frameworks
  • Support Frontier Academy and keep recommendations current across Databricks, Microsoft, and Anthropic
  • Help develop and ultimately lead a small delivery team, including hiring

Requirements

  • Around eight years of experience in data and AI engineering and architecture, including at least three years with significant design authority and senior client-facing consulting work
  • Hands-on Databricks expertise spanning lakehouse architecture, Delta Lake, Unity Catalog, Spark/PySpark, Lakeflow or Delta Live Tables, orchestration, performance, and cost optimisation
  • Azure and Microsoft data-platform experience with Data Factory or Fabric, ADLS, Azure OpenAI or AI Foundry, Entra ID, and networking
  • Production generative AI experience with RAG, vector stores, agents and tool use, evaluation, guardrails, and prompt or context engineering, including Claude or a comparable frontier model
  • Strong production-level Python and SQL skills
  • Practical data-modelling expertise across dimensional, data vault, and wide denormalised patterns
  • Working knowledge of DevOps and MLOps, including version control, CI/CD, infrastructure as code, containers, and monitoring
  • Excellent spoken and written English for executive proposals, decision records, and presentations
  • Databricks Professional or Azure Solutions Architect Expert certification is desirable
  • Experience at a Big Four firm, global systems integrator, or specialist consultancy, including bids, statements of work, and estimation, is desirable
  • Experience applying responsible AI governance and delivery practices in financial services, retail, or travel is desirable
  • Experience with Australian or APAC clients, Snowflake, dbt, Power BI or Fabric, and mentoring small engineering teams is desirable

Benefits

  • No benefits, perks, or additional compensation are specified

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