Databricks Lakehouse Architect & Platform Leader

NTT America, Inc.; Greater London; On-site; GBP 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

NTT DATA UK is seeking a Databricks Champion Architect to define and govern modern lakehouse architectures on Databricks. You will own end-to-end solution architecture across ingestion, governance, and operations, setting standards and accelerating delivery through patterns and reference designs.

Minimum 2+ years of recent Databricks experience, with architecture ownership and a focus on modern platform capabilities.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of hands-on Databricks experience gained recently (e.g., within the last 2–3 years) with evidence of modern feature usage and production delivery.
• Demonstrable architecture ownership (solution design, governance models, or platform standards).

Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end Databricks solution architecture across ingestion, transformation, governance, serving, and operations.
• Define and enforce Medallion Architecture (Bronze/Silver/Gold) standards and reference designs (including data quality, SCD/CDC patterns, performance, and retention).
• Architect ingestion approaches using Lakeflow Connect, AutoLoader, batch/streaming/CDC strategies, and enterprise integration patterns.
• Establish platform governance using Unity Catalog.
• Namespace strategy, access models, lineage, data sharing, and secure-by-design patterns.
• Define the approach for Declarative Pipelines with Expectations (DLT).
• Data quality strategy, validation rules, quarantine patterns, and observability standards.
• Champion “production-ready” engineering standards: CI/CD, environment strategy, monitoring, runbooks, and operational readiness.
• Drive stakeholder alignment with security, enterprise architecture, data governance, platform teams, and delivery squads.
• Enable and upskill teams with playbooks, templates, ADRs, design reviews, and technical coaching.
• Contribute to pre-sales and roadmap with high-level designs, estimation, risk/dependency management, and technical proposals.

Skills

Databricks

Architecture ownership

Unity Catalog

DLT / Expectations

Ingestion design

Lakeflow Connect

AutoLoader

CI/CD

Data governance

Security patterns

Tools

Lakeflow Connect

AutoLoader

Job description

NTT DATA UK is seeking a Databricks Champion Architect to define and govern modern lakehouse architectures on Databricks. You will own end-to-end solution architecture across ingestion, governance, and operations, setting standards and accelerating delivery through patterns and reference designs.

Minimum 2+ years of recent Databricks experience, with architecture ownership and a focus on modern platform capabilities.