Databricks Lakehouse Architect for Enterprise Analytics

Papigen; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 135,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Papigen in Washington, DC seeks a Databricks Architect to lead enterprise-scale data and reporting initiatives. You will design lakehouse architectures, scalable data models, and curated reporting datasets on Databricks platforms.

Collaborate with product owners, data engineers, and analytics teams in an Agile environment, translating complex requirements into robust architectures and governance. The role focuses on security, data quality, metadata, lineage, and performance optimization to

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required in a related discipline and 8+ years in data architecture or analytics platforms.
• Strong hands-on Databricks experience and lakehouse architectures.
• Proven ability to design scalable enterprise data solutions and reporting data models.
• Experience with Databricks Notebooks, Jobs & Workflows, Delta Lake, SQL, and data transformation frameworks.
• Strong SQL and large-scale data processing experience.
• Knowledge of data quality, reconciliation, metadata, lineage, governance.
• Experience implementing RBAC and enterprise data policies.
• Excellent documentation and stakeholder management in Agile environments.
• Preferred: Power BI or other enterprise reporting platforms.

Responsibilities

• Assess data sources, transformations, reporting needs, and data flows enterprise-wide.
• Define scalable Databricks lakehouse architectures for reporting and analytics.
• Design enterprise data models, curated datasets, and semantic layers.
• Guide notebooks, jobs, Delta tables, and orchestration for platforms.
• Ingest, transform, and process data with optimized pipelines.
• Establish data quality, metadata, lineage, governance, and auditability frameworks.
• Implement RBAC and data protection policies.
• Optimize Databricks workloads, queries, storage, and resources for performance.
• Collaborate with product owners, analysts, data engineers, and reporting teams in Agile environments.

Skills

Stakeholder management

Architectural design

Agile/Scrum

Documentation

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Data Science, or related discipline

Tools

Databricks Notebooks

Jobs & Workflows

Delta Lake

SQL

Data Transformation Frameworks

Job description

Papigen in Washington, DC seeks a Databricks Architect to lead enterprise-scale data and reporting initiatives. You will design lakehouse architectures, scalable data models, and curated reporting datasets on Databricks platforms.

Collaborate with product owners, data engineers, and analytics teams in an Agile environment, translating complex requirements into robust architectures and governance. The role focuses on security, data quality, metadata, lineage, and performance optimization to