Data Solution Architect: Lakehouse & AI/ML Platform Lead

FCCI; Sarasota (FL); Hybrid; USD 134,000 - 207,000; Full time

Job summary

FCCI is seeking a data solution architect in Sarasota or our hybrid office setup. The role blends strategic technical leadership with hands-on development to deliver enterprise data products and platform capabilities using Databricks and cloud-native technologies.

You will mentor engineers, drive design reviews, and establish standards across data modeling, CI/CD, testing, observability, and operations to advance platform maturity and data delivery outcomes.

Qualifications

• Experience building and enabling AI/ML platforms, MLOps, or data products that support analytics and machine learning workloads.
• Databricks certifications and cloud platform certifications (Azure, AWS, or GCP).
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code, DevOps practices, and platform automation.
• Experience with data cataloging, data governance, and data observability solutions.
• Exposure to streaming architecture, CDC patterns, event-driven processing, and real-time analytics platforms.

Responsibilities

• Lead architecture, design, and implementation of enterprise data products and lakehouse solutions using Databricks and cloud-native tech.
• Define data product architecture standards and reusable frameworks to improve scalability and delivery velocity.
• Design and maintain modern lakehouse architecture with Delta Lake, PySpark, Unity Catalog, and serverless compute.
• Hands-on contributor in solution design, code development, and architecture reviews.
• Establish engineering best practices across data modeling, CI/CD, testing, observability, and platform operations.
• Mentor data engineers and lead design/code reviews to elevate technical maturity.
• Ensure security, governance, reliability, resiliency, and operational supportability of data products.

Skills

AI/ML platforms

MLOps

Databricks

Cloud platforms (Azure/AWS/GCP)

Solution architecture

Tools

Databricks

dbt

Power BI

Job description

FCCI is seeking a data solution architect in Sarasota or our hybrid office setup. The role blends strategic technical leadership with hands-on development to deliver enterprise data products and platform capabilities using Databricks and cloud-native technologies.

You will mentor engineers, drive design reviews, and establish standards across data modeling, CI/CD, testing, observability, and operations to advance platform maturity and data delivery outcomes.