Databricks Lakehouse Architect — Lead Data Platform (Hybrid, London)

Unifeye - The Databricks Experts; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Bonus

Generous benefits

Flexible hybrid working

Job summary

Unifeye, a London-based Databricks-first consultancy, is seeking an experienced Data Architect to lead the design and delivery of modern data and AI solutions on the Databricks Lakehouse Platform. You will work across enterprise engagements, translating business needs into scalable, secure data platforms.

You'll mentor engineers, collaborate with delivery teams, and define architecture strategies from discovery to production.

Qualifications

• 5+ years delivering enterprise data platforms or analytics solutions.
• Strong experience delivering Databricks solutions.
• Consulting or customer-facing delivery experience.
• Strong understanding of Apache Spark, Lakehouse architecture and Unity Catalog.
• Experience with Azure, AWS or GCP.
• Experience implementing CI/CD and deployment automation.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.

Responsibilities

• Design and deliver enterprise data and AI solutions on the Databricks Lakehouse Platform.
• Lead architecture for Lakehouse implementations using Unity Catalog and related tools.
• Define architecture strategies, migration approaches and technical roadmaps with customers.
• Translate business requirements into scalable, secure, production-ready solutions.
• Lead technical workshops, architecture reviews and discovery sessions.
• Support Proof of Concepts and pre-sales engagements.
• Establish best practices for governance, security, CI/CD, DataOps and MLOps.
• Collaborate with Databricks and internal delivery teams.
• Mentor engineers and grow the consultancy's technical capability.

Skills

Databricks

Cloud platforms

CI/CD

Stakeholder mgmt

Communication

Tools

Unity Catalog

Delta Live Tables

MLflow

Terraform

Databricks Asset Bundles

Job description

Unifeye, a London-based Databricks-first consultancy, is seeking an experienced Data Architect to lead the design and delivery of modern data and AI solutions on the Databricks Lakehouse Platform. You will work across enterprise engagements, translating business needs into scalable, secure data platforms.

You'll mentor engineers, collaborate with delivery teams, and define architecture strategies from discovery to production.