Databricks Lakehouse Data Architect — Hands-On Lead

Intellias; Poland; On-site; PLN 200,000 - 320,000; Full time

Job summary

Intellias is hiring a Data Architect to join an enterprise data platform migration for a financial services client. This hands-on role co-owns the pattern library, writes reference implementations, and guides engineering decisions across the programme.

You will own Lakehouse architecture and Unity Catalog design, craft integration patterns, and review domain designs. You will help shape FinOps guardrails and observability across the platform.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of data platform architecture experience including production Databricks work.
• Deep hands-on knowledge of Delta Lake, Unity Catalog, Lakeflow Declarative Pipelines, Spark, Photon.
• Experience implementing enterprise data catalogues (Collibra, Purview, Alation, AWS DataZone or similar).
• Comfortable writing reference code, reviewing PRs and pairing with engineers.
• Fluent working English.

Responsibilities

• Own the Lakehouse architecture and Unity Catalog design across domains.
• Author and maintain Architecture Decision Records for the platform.
• Design integration patterns and codify reusable reference implementations.
• Review domain designs and contribute to code reviews.
• Co-own the reference pattern library and evolve it over waves.
• Design FinOps guardrails and observability across the platform.
• Contribute to agent rules and skill definitions for architectural enforcement.

Skills

Databricks

Delta Lake

Unity Catalog

Lakeflow Declarative Pipelines

Spark

Photon

Collibra

Purview

Alation

AWS DataZone

Reference code

Tools

Databricks

Unity Catalog

Delta Lake

Lakeflow

Collibra

Purview

Alation

AWS DataZone

Job description

Intellias is hiring a Data Architect to join an enterprise data platform migration for a financial services client. This hands-on role co-owns the pattern library, writes reference implementations, and guides engineering decisions across the programme.

You will own Lakehouse architecture and Unity Catalog design, craft integration patterns, and review domain designs. You will help shape FinOps guardrails and observability across the platform.