Senior Architect_Databricks

Role & responsibilities

• Design end-to-end Lakehouse architectures on Databricks, including ingestion, transformation, storage, and consumption layers.

• Define best practices for Delta Lake, Unity Catalog, and workspace governance across environments.

• Architect scalable data pipelines using Spark, Delta Live Tables, and Databricks Workflows.

• Establish security, access control, and data governance standards within Databricks and the underlying cloud platform (Azure/AWS/GCP). • Guide performance tuning and cost optimization of Spark jobs and cluster configurations.

• Collaborate with data engineering, data science, and ML teams to enable a unified data and AI platform.

• Define CI/CD and DevOps practices for Databricks notebooks, jobs, and infrastructure (Repos, Terraform).

• Provide architectural oversight and mentorship to data engineering teams.

• Partner with stakeholders to align the Databricks platform roadmap with business and analytics needs.

Required Skills & Qualifications

• 10-14 years of overall data engineering/architecture experience, with at least 45 years hands-on with Databricks.

• Deep expertise in Apache Spark, Delta Lake, and the Databricks Lakehouse architecture.

• Strong experience with Unity Catalog, workspace administration, and cluster/job management.

• Hands-on experience with at least one hyperscaler (Azure, AWS, or GCP) underlying the Databricks deployment.

• Proficiency in Python and/or Scala, and strong SQL skills.

• Experience designing batch and streaming data pipelines at enterprise scale.

• Solid understanding of data governance, lineage, and security practices in a Lakehouse environment.

• Strong communication skills and experience leading technical teams. Preferred Qualifications (Good to Have)

• Databricks Certified Data Engineer Professional or Databricks Certified Solutions Architect.

• Experience with MLflow and enabling ML/AI workloads on Databricks. • Exposure to orchestration tools such as Airflow or Azure Data Factory. • Experience migrating legacy data warehouses to a Lakehouse architecture.

Education Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (Master's preferred).