Databricks on AWS Platform Architect

Stefanini, Inc; Dallas, Northern (TX, KY); Hybrid; USD 83,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Stefanini, Inc. seeks a Databricks on AWS Platform Architect in Dallas, TX to design and lead a secure, scalable Databricks Lakehouse on AWS. You will define networking, governance, and automated provisioning across Dev, Test, and Prod environments.

The role demands expertise in Databricks, AWS services, and data analytics architectures, with responsibilities spanning data ingestion, real-time analytics, and AI integration. This is a full-time on-site position in Dallas.

Qualifications

• Databricks Platform Administrator certification is required.
• Databricks Certified Data Engineer or AWS DevOps/Solution Architect certs preferred.
• Terraform IaC experience is highly desirable.

Responsibilities

• Architect and manage a secure, scalable Databricks Lakehouse platform on AWS.
• Design data platforms using AWS S3, Delta Lake, Unity Catalog, and Databricks Workspaces.
• Define networking (VPC, PrivateLink, IAM roles, security groups, encryption).
• Automate provisioning with Terraform and IaC across environments.
• Enforce data governance, lineage, metadata management, and compliance.
• Support batch, streaming, and real-time analytics workloads.
• Enable AI capabilities with Mosaic AI, Vector Search, and Model Serving.
• Establish CI/CD, monitoring, logging, and observability via GitHub, Jenkins, CloudWatch, and Databricks Workflows.
• Optimize performance, reliability, and cloud costs through FinOps.
• Provide architectural leadership for Lakehouse modernization and AI governance.

Skills

Databricks

AWS

Data Lakehouse

Terraform

IaC

VPC

Security Groups

IAM

Kubernetes

GitHub

Jenkins

CloudWatch

Delta Lake

Unity Catalog

Workspaces

FinOps

Automation

Education

Databricks Platform Administrator

Databricks Certified Data Engineer

AWS Certification (DevOps/Solution Architect)

Terraform Certification

Tools

Terraform

GitHub

Jenkins

CloudWatch

Databricks Workflows

Kubernetes

Job description

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Job Details

Databricks on AWS Platform Architect Dallas,TX Job Description

Job Category: Application development

Position Type: Full Time

Remaining Positions: 1

Application development

Role- Databricks on AWS Platform Architect

Location- Dallas TX

Databricks on AWS Platform Architect - Platform Architecture (10 Bullet Summary)

• Architect and manage a secure, scalable, and highly available Databricks Lakehouse Platform on AWS.
• Design data platforms leveraging AWS S3, Delta Lake, Unity Catalog, and Databricks Workspaces for enterprise analytics and AI.
• Define networking architecture including VPC, PrivateLink, IAM roles, security groups, and encryption standards.
• Establish multi-environment strategies (Dev, Test, UAT, Prod) with automated provisioning through Terraform and Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
• Implement enterprise-wide data governance, lineage, metadata management, and compliance controls using Unity Catalog.
• Design high-performance data ingestion and processing architectures supporting batch, streaming, and real-time analytics workloads.
• Enable AI and GenAI capabilities through Mosaic AI, Vector Search, Model Serving, AI/BI Dashboards, and Genie Spaces.
• Define CI/CD, monitoring, logging, and observability frameworks using GitHub, Jenkins, CloudWatch, and Databricks Workflows.
• Optimize platform performance, reliability, scalability, and cloud costs through FinOps and workload optimization practices.
• Provide architectural leadership and best practices for Lakehouse modernization, advanced analytics, AI governance, and enterprise data platform adoption.

Core Technologies: Databricks, AWS S3, Delta Lake, Unity Catalog, Spark/PySpark, Terraform, GitHub, CI/CD, CloudWatch, Mosaic AI, Genie, Vector Search, MLflow, Kafka, Airflow, Kubernetes.

Job Requirements Details

Certification :

• DataBricks Platform Administrator /Databricks Certified Data Engineer/
• AWS Certification (DevOps/Solution Architect)
• Terraform

Pay Range: $ 60.00 - $ 65.00