Databricks Lakehouse Program Lead (Migration & Delivery)

truData Solutions; San Antonio (TX); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equal Opportunity Employer

Job summary

truData Solutions seeks a Databricks: Program Lead to own end-to-end migration of an enterprise data warehouse from Azure Synapse to the Databricks Lakehouse. You will direct multiple concurrent workstreams including platform foundation, pipelines, data reconciliation, and BI cutover, while guiding delivery through Agile ceremonies and stakeholder engagement.

You will shape target Lakehouse architecture, govern Unity Catalog, and lead CI/CD, cost optimization, and performance tuning.

Qualifications

• Experience with Databricks Lakehouse architecture and Unity Catalog governance.
• Proven track record migrating Azure Synapse objects to Databricks (SQL objects to Spark SQL).
• Experience migrating data pipelines using Databricks-native orchestration and Delta Live Tables.
• Ability to define CI/CD and environment promotion standards for Databricks deployments.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end delivery of a data warehouse migration project across multiple workstreams.
• Direct platform, pipeline, data migration, and BI cutover activities.
• Lead Agile ceremonies and manage program backlog and epics in Jira.
• Interface with client stakeholders and translate technical risk to business impact.
• Oversee cost/performance guardrails and drive delivery to closure without escalation.
• Lead BI cutover planning and semantic model re-pointing for Power BI.

Tools

Databricks Lakehouse

Unity Catalog governance

Delta Lake design

Cluster sizing

SSIS/ETL migration

Azure Synapse migration

Databricks Workflows

Power BI integration

CI/CD pipelines (Databricks Asset Bundles)

Jira/Confluence

Azure DevOps

Job description

truData Solutions seeks a Databricks: Program Lead to own end-to-end migration of an enterprise data warehouse from Azure Synapse to the Databricks Lakehouse. You will direct multiple concurrent workstreams including platform foundation, pipelines, data reconciliation, and BI cutover, while guiding delivery through Agile ceremonies and stakeholder engagement.

You will shape target Lakehouse architecture, govern Unity Catalog, and lead CI/CD, cost optimization, and performance tuning.