Databricks Lakehouse Champion Architect

NTT DATA; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work options

Learning & Development

Inclusion & Diversity programs

Job summary

NTT DATA is seeking a Databricks Champion Architect to define, govern, and evangelise modern lakehouse architectures on Databricks. You will own end-to-end Databricks solution architecture across ingestion, transformation, governance, serving, and operations, and enforce Bronze/Silver/Gold standards with reference designs.

The role also covers platform governance via Unity Catalog, data quality with DLT, and production-ready engineering practices across CI/CD, monitoring, and observability for

Qualifications

• Minimum 2+ years of hands-on Databricks experience gained recently (e.g., last 2–3 years).
• Demonstrable architecture ownership (solution design, governance models, or platform standards).
• Databricks Certification (active/current): two of provided options.
• Medallion Architecture design ownership across Bronze/Silver/Gold layers.
• Unity Catalog governance architecture experience (catalog strategy, grants, lineage).
• Declarative Pipelines with Expectations (DLT): design, validation, observability.

Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end Databricks solution architecture across ingestion, transformation, governance, serving, and operations.
• Define and enforce Medallion Architecture standards and reference designs.
• Architect ingestion using AutoLoader and Lakeflow Connect with schema evolution and CDC patterns.
• Establish Unity Catalog governance including namespaces, access, lineage, and secure-by-design patterns.

Skills

Databricks

Solution architecture

Platform governance

DLT (Delta Live Tables)

AutoLoader

Lakeflow Connect

Unity Catalog

Bronze/Silver/Gold architecture

Tools

Lakeflow Connect

AutoLoader

Delta Lake

Job description

NTT DATA is seeking a Databricks Champion Architect to define, govern, and evangelise modern lakehouse architectures on Databricks. You will own end-to-end Databricks solution architecture across ingestion, transformation, governance, serving, and operations, and enforce Bronze/Silver/Gold standards with reference designs.

The role also covers platform governance via Unity Catalog, data quality with DLT, and production-ready engineering practices across CI/CD, monitoring, and observability for