John Keells Information Technology (Pvt) Ltd (JKIT), a fully owned subsidiary of John Keells Holdings PLC, Sri Lanka's largest conglomerate listed on the Colombo Stock Exchange, is a global IT professional services leader, transforming enterprises with cutting-edge digital solutions.

JKIT is a 100% cloud-native solutions provider, offering end-to-end digital transformation solutions in collaboration with global Principals like Microsoft, SAP, and Salesforce. Driven by a Cloud-first, Mobile-first and AI-first strategy, JKIT empowers businesses with innovation, agility, growth, and state-of-the-art security.

We invite applications from suitably qualified individuals for the post of Practice Manager- Databricks. The selected candidate will report to the Practice Manager.

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The Practice Manager- Databricks will be responsible for:
- Leading JKIT’s Databricks practice by defining the roadmap, delivery standards, operating model, and reusable accelerators.
- Providing architecture and technical leadership across Databricks Lakehouse, Delta Lake, Unity Catalog, Databricks SQL,



Workflows, MLflow, and data governance.
- Leading customer discovery, assessments, migration workshops, solution presentations, and executive discussions.
- Designing data platforms using Azure Databricks, Data Factory, Synapse, Microsoft Fabric, Power BI, and related services.
- Leading migrations from legacy data warehouses, SQL, Synapse, Hadoop, and other platforms to Databricks Lakehouse.
- Leading multidisciplinary teams and driving best practices in SQL, Python, PySpark, ETL/ELT, CI/CD, DataOps, security, performance, and FinOps.
- Supporting presales activities, including proposals, RFPs, estimations, solution sizing, architecture, demos, POCs, and presentations.
- Building capability through mentoring, certification plans, knowledge sharing, playbooks, and documentation.
- Collaborating with Databricks, Microsoft, internal teams, and customers on migration, analytics, AI, GenAI, and manag

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