Associate Director, Data Architect - DataOps & Lakehouse

Jobtome; Schertz (TX); On-site; USD 149,000 - 248,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Rx, Dental & Vision Insurance

401(k) Retirement Plan

Discretionary incentive bonus

Job summary

Guidehouse is seeking a senior data-architecture professional in the United States to serve as deputy to the Data Workstream Lead. You will set the Databricks lakehouse strategy, Unity Catalog governance, and data-product standards, guiding technical teams and leadership.

The role requires 8+ years in enterprise data architecture, a public-trust clearance, and experience with HR/ERP data models. Travel up to 25% is expected and comprehensive benefits are offered.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in enterprise data architecture, data engineering, cloud platforms, or analytics modernization.
• Experience architecting Databricks lakehouse solutions and Unity Catalog security and governance structures.
• Strong knowledge of dimensional, relational, canonical, and data-product modeling patterns.

Responsibilities

• Serve as deputy to the Data Workstream Lead and lead day-to-day technical architecture decisions.
• Define the secure Databricks lakehouse architecture, environments, workspaces, storage patterns, identity and access considerations, and Unity Catalog structure.
• Define canonical HR data models, domain boundaries, curated layers, semantic approaches, and reusable data-product standards.
• Establish DataOps, ingestion, transformation, orchestration, integration, API, and other consumption patterns.
• Develop the migration architecture, source-to-target design standards, metadata and lineage approach, and data-contract framework.
• Define architecture standards for security, privacy, quality, observability, performance, testing, deployment, and supportability.
• Review detailed models, mappings, pipelines, interfaces, and data products for conformance with the target architecture.
• Facilitate architecture decisions and communicate tradeoffs to technical teams, business stakeholders, and leadership.
• Mentor architects and engineers and provide technical quality assurance across Prepare, Stabilize, and Operationalize.

Skills

Data architecture

Data engineering

Databricks lakehouse

Unity Catalog

Cloud platforms

Data modeling

DataOps

Migration design

Architectural governance

Education

Bachelor’s degree in computer science

Tools

Databricks

Unity Catalog

Azure

AWS

APIs

Job description

Guidehouse is seeking a senior data-architecture professional in the United States to serve as deputy to the Data Workstream Lead. You will set the Databricks lakehouse strategy, Unity Catalog governance, and data-product standards, guiding technical teams and leadership.

The role requires 8+ years in enterprise data architecture, a public-trust clearance, and experience with HR/ERP data models. Travel up to 25% is expected and comprehensive benefits are offered.