Senior Technical Lead
India
Job Description
Senior Technical Lead
| Chennai, Tamil NaduBengaluru, Karnataka

Job Summary

  • Administer and operate enterprise Databricks workspaces across development, QA, production, and disaster recovery environments.
  • Manage Databricks workspace configuration including clusters, jobs, pools, policies, secrets, and init scripts.
  • Design, configure, and enforce cluster policies to ensure security, stability, and cost control.
  • Manage Databricks compute including autoscaling, instance pools, job clusters, and all‑purpose clusters.
  • Administer Databricks Jobs, Workflows, and scheduling for batch and streaming workloads.
  • Configure and manage Databricks security including workspace access controls, IAM integration, permissions, and secrets management.
  • Implement and manage Databricks Unity Catalog for data governance, access control, and lineage.
  • Configure and support integration with cloud storage (Azure Data Lake, S3, GCS) and external data sources.
  • Administer Delta Lake features including table management, versioning, optimization, and retention policies.
  • Monitor platform health, performance, and availability using logs, metrics, and alerts.
  • Troubleshoot Spark workloads including job failures, performance degradation, memory issues, and scaling problems.
  • Support ML and AI workloads using Databricks ML Runtime, Model Registry, Feature Store, and notebooks.
  • Implement CI/CD processes for Databricks notebooks, jobs, and configurations using Git-based workflows.
  • Manage Databricks REST APIs, CLI tools, and automation scripts for platform operations.
  • Perform capacity planning, usage analysis, and cost optimisation across Databricks environments.
  • Apply platform patches, runtime upgrades, and configuration changes following change management best practices.

Key Responsibilities

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Skill Requirements

  • Databricks Administrator or Data Engineer certification.
  • Experience supporting ML and AI workloads on Databricks.
  • Experience with streaming technologies such as Spark Structured Streaming or Kafka.
  • Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform for Databricks.
  • Experience working in regulated or security‑sensitive environments.
  • Familiarity with ITIL‑based enterprise service management processes.

Other Requirements

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Information at a Glance

Why HCLTech?

At HCLTech, you'll supercharge your potential. You'll find your career. And you'll find your spark. All at a place that knows that helping its customers stay on top starts by putting its people first.

HCLTech is a global technology company, home to more than 223,000 people across 60 countries, delivering industry-leading capabilities centered around digital, engineering, cloud and AI, powered by a broad portfolio of technology services and products. We work with clients across all major verticals, providing industry solutions for Financial Services, Manufacturing, Life Sciences and Healthcare, Technology and Services, Telecom and Media, Retail and CPG, and Public Services. Consolidated revenues as of 12 months ending June 2026 totaled $14.8 billion.