Databricks Champion — Principal Lakehouse Architect

nimblegravity; United States; Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Nimble Gravity seeks a Principal Databricks Architect to lead lakehouse and platform modernization engagements and serve as the firm's primary technical voice in the Databricks partnership.

Ideal candidates will architect production Databricks implementations, scope engagements with commercial clarity, and mentor engineers, with a Databricks Champion certification and hands-on delivery across cloud, data, and AI workloads.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in data engineering or data architecture.
• 4+ years of deep, hands on Databricks experience.
• Current Databricks Champion certification.

Responsibilities

• Architect and deliver lakehouse implementations and platform modernization on Databricks (Azure preferred).
• Design Delta Lake, medallion, and Unity Catalog patterns balancing performance, cost, governance, and speed to value.
• Own technical direction for migrations from legacy platforms into Databricks and Power BI ecosystems.
• Define standards for ingestion, orchestration, CI/CD, testing, observability, and FinOps.
• Architect for AI readiness including feature pipelines and GenAI workloads built on governed data.
• Join discovery calls, run architecture workshops, and shape technical solutions for Databricks opportunities.
• Scope engagements and review SOWs for technical accuracy, risk, and commercial clarity.
• Build reusable accelerators, reference architectures, and playbooks for pursuits.

Skills

Databricks

Azure

PySpark

SQL

Data modeling

Security & governance

Client-facing communication

Tools

Power BI

Microsoft Fabric

Terraform

Git

Job description

Nimble Gravity seeks a Principal Databricks Architect to lead lakehouse and platform modernization engagements and serve as the firm's primary technical voice in the Databricks partnership.

Ideal candidates will architect production Databricks implementations, scope engagements with commercial clarity, and mentor engineers, with a Databricks Champion certification and hands-on delivery across cloud, data, and AI workloads.