Azure Databricks Engineer (Azure)

Location: Kraków, Poland; hybrid work with 3 days per week from the client's office, non-negotiable. Candidates must live in or near Kraków.

Salary: 135–160 PLN/h on a B2B contract, depending on experience.

Company

hirify.global is a recruitment and consulting company providing project-based and permanent opportunities for clients in Poland and abroad.

What you will do

• Design and implement big data solutions in Azure Databricks for batch and real-time analytics.
• Build Spark pipelines that populate downstream BI data marts and generate feeds for Data Science.
• Integrate Kafka-based real-time services with ADLS Gen2 using Databricks.
• Develop near real-time stream processing for features used in ML model inference.
• Optimize Databricks performance using liquid clustering, vacuum, Z-ordering, and related techniques.
• Collaborate 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 large-scale distributed data platforms using technologies such as Spark, Kafka, Flink, or HBase.
• Experience with Hadoop-based implementations, SQL/T-SQL, Unix, Hive, Azure Data Factory, ADLS Gen2, and Azure SQL Database.
• Good understanding of RDBMS, Data Lake, Data Warehouse, Lakehouse, and Medallion Architecture.
• Experience with at least one workflow orchestration tool, such as Apache Airflow, Luigi, Oozie, AWS Glue, or similar.
• Knowledge of Microsoft Fabric and a basic understanding of data quality dimensions.
• Fluent English.
• Polish or EU citizenship, or permanent residence/work authorization valid for at least 12 months.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time hybrid engagement with mandatory office attendance three days per week in Kraków.
• B2B cooperation agreement signed directly with hirify.global, which acts as the recruitment and contracting party.
• The project is delivered with a large international IT services company for a leading global investment bank.
• Background screening by HireRight covering identity, right to work, education, and employment history.

Hiring process

• One interview with the IT services partner, followed by 1–3 interviews with the bank.
• Technical tasks are completed live; the programming environment must be set up and tested in advance. AI tools, coding assistants, and code generators are not allowed during interviews.
• Application and CV names must exactly match the official ID document; Polish citizens must include all first names. Candidates who participated in a process for the partner or bank within the last 12 months cannot be considered.