Databricks Lakehouse Architect & Data Strategy Lead

Guidehouse; McLean (VA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Rx, Dental & Vision Insurance

Company Holidays

Parental Leave

401(k) Retirement Plan

Tuition Reimbursement

Mobility Stipend

Employee Referral Program

Disability Insurance

Job summary

Guidehouse is seeking a senior Data Architecture professional in McLean, VA to serve as deputy to the Data Workstream Lead and drive day-to-day technical architecture decisions. You will define secure Databricks lakehouse architecture, Unity Catalog structures, canonical HR data models, and DataOps patterns, guiding migration and data-product standards across complex programs.

Experience with security, privacy, quality, and observability is required, with ability to mentor architects and

Qualifications

• Must obtain and maintain a Federal or DHS Public Trust.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, data engineering, information systems, engineering, or related field.
• 8+ years of enterprise data architecture, data engineering, cloud platforms, or analytics modernization.
• Experience architecting Databricks lakehouse solutions and Unity Catalog security/governance.
• Strong knowledge of dimensional, relational, canonical, and data-product modeling.
• Experience with DataOps patterns: ingestion, API, integration, orchestration, metadata, lineage, data contracts, quality.
• Experience designing migration architectures and guiding source-to-target mapping and conversion decisions.

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

Databricks Lakehouse

Unity Catalog

DataOps

Data Modeling

Migration Architecture

Security & Governance

Mentoring

Education

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, data engineering, information systems, engineering, or related field

Tools

Databricks

Unity Catalog

Job description

Guidehouse is seeking a senior Data Architecture professional in McLean, VA to serve as deputy to the Data Workstream Lead and drive day-to-day technical architecture decisions. You will define secure Databricks lakehouse architecture, Unity Catalog structures, canonical HR data models, and DataOps patterns, guiding migration and data-product standards across complex programs.

Experience with security, privacy, quality, and observability is required, with ability to mentor architects and