Databricks Platform Architect – Azure & AWS

AT&T; Alpharetta (GA); On-site; USD 155,000 - 261,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision coverage

401(k) plan

Tuition reimbursement program

Paid Time Off and Holidays

Paid Parental Leave

Paid Caregiver Leave

Disability Benefits

Life and Accidental Death Insurance

Employee Discounts

Job summary

AT&T seeks an experienced Principal Solution Architect to lead the enterprise Databricks platform across Azure and AWS, guiding architecture, governance, and automation for data engineering, analytics, and AI/ML workloads.

You will design accounts, workspaces, and serverless compute, establish Unity Catalog governance, and collaborate with security and cloud teams to deliver scalable, cost‑efficient solutions. This onsite role is based in Alpharetta, GA.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related field (desired).
• 7+ years of related experience architecting and administering production Databricks environments.
• Databricks and Azure/AWS certifications preferred, subject to role requirements.
• Extensive experience with enterprise Databricks platform architecture: accounts/workspaces, networking, identity, compute, and operations.
• Strong Unity Catalog expertise, Azure Data Lake Storage, storage containers, permissions, and secure connectivity.
• Experience with Genie and Lakebase and Databricks data engineering, SQL analytics, AI/ML.

Responsibilities

• Define enterprise Databricks architecture, platform standards, and roadmap across Azure and AWS.
• Design and administer Databricks accounts, workspaces, compute, SQL warehouses, and serverless capabilities.
• Establish governance with Unity Catalog including permissions, lineage, and security alignment.
• Architect and administer Azure Data Lake Storage and storage containers.
• Evaluate and support Databricks products (Delta Lake, ingestion, transformation, workflow, Databricks SQL, AI/ML).
• Guide secure adoption of Genie and Lakebase with proper configurations.
• Lead troubleshooting, performance tuning, compute policies, and cost optimization for serverless and other compute.
• Develop repeatable platform provisioning via infrastructure as code, APIs, automation, and CI/CD.
• Collaborate with architects, security, cloud infra, and engineers to establish patterns and guide production implementations.

Skills

Databricks architecture

Azure/AWS cloud

Security & governance

CI/CD

Python/SQL

Serverless computing

Genie/Lakebase

Education

Master’s degree in Computer Science

Tools

Databricks

Azure

AWS

Unity Catalog

Delta Lake

Genie

Lakebase

Python

SQL

Job description

AT&T seeks an experienced Principal Solution Architect to lead the enterprise Databricks platform across Azure and AWS, guiding architecture, governance, and automation for data engineering, analytics, and AI/ML workloads.

You will design accounts, workspaces, and serverless compute, establish Unity Catalog governance, and collaborate with security and cloud teams to deliver scalable, cost‑efficient solutions. This onsite role is based in Alpharetta, GA.