Databricks Platform Architect & Strategy Leader

Tiger Analytics Inc.

Sunnyvale (CA)

On-site

USD 180,000 - 300,000

Full time

10 days ago

Application generator

Turn this role into an interview — a resume and cover letter built around what this employer wants.

Get past ATS filters

Job summary

Tiger Analytics is seeking a Technology Partner to lead Data & Insights transformations for Fortune 100 clients. You will drive technology strategy, architecture, and governance across cloud platforms, AI/ML, and data platforms.

With 10+ years in enterprise architectures and Databricks expertise, you will mentor teams, shape go-to-market offerings, and engage executive stakeholders to deliver large-scale modernization programs. This is a leadership, client-facing role in the US.

Qualifications

10+ years of experience developing solution architectures for large enterprises and complex transformation programs.
Databricks expertise is a core requirement, including hands-on and architectural experience designing, implementing, and modernizing enterprise data and AI platforms using the Databricks Lakehouse Platform.
Demonstrated experience with Databricks capabilities such as Delta Lake, Apache Spark, Databricks SQL, Unity Catalog, Workflows, notebooks, data pipelines, governance, security, and platform administration.
Experience building and governing data engineering, analytics, machine learning, and AI workloads on Databricks, including batch processing, real-time streaming, and scalable data pipeline architectures.
Experience integrating Databricks with cloud services, particularly within Azure and Azure Databricks environments; experience with AWS Databricks or Databricks on Google Cloud is a plus.
Strong knowledge of traditional and modern data platforms, including NoSQL, MPP, columnar databases, big data ecosystems, cloud data warehouses, and cloud-native data platforms.
Experience with cloud data platform services across Azure, including Azure Data Lake Storage, Azure Data Factory, Synapse Analytics, Event Hubs, and related integration, security, and monitoring services.
Experience with data-processing tools and frameworks covering batch ETL/ELT, real-time streaming, event-driven architectures, IoT data pipelines, and distributed computing.

Responsibilities

Liaise with data and technology leaders across strategic client organizations to provide forward-looking advisory services and thought leadership.
Lead brown-bag sessions, workshops, and educational forums to share relevant data, AI, cloud, and platform perspectives with core clients.
Conduct proactive reviews of client data platforms, operating models, and technology practices; provide improvement recommendations, solution approaches, and transformation roadmaps.
Provide technology leadership for Data & Insights transformation agendas spanning technology, organization, operating processes, and governance.
Help recruit and assess key technology talent for critical client-facing roles.
Create detailed, scalable technology solutions for first-of-a-kind, complex, and enterprise-wide initiatives.
Present Tiger’s Data & Insights capabilities to prospective clients and executive stakeholders.
Develop solution architectures, proposals, statements of work, and responses to client requirements.
Partner with business and delivery leaders to shape data, analytics, AI/ML, cloud, and modernization opportunities.
Mentor engineering, data, architecture, and analytics talent at multiple career levels.
Manage and guide architecture resources across client engagements and internal initiatives.
Develop thought-leadership content for go-to-market offerings, including reference architectures, methods, accelerators, and delivery practices.
Participate in interviews and help evolve hiring, assessment, and talent-development practices.
Partner with offshore counterparts on solution design, training, delivery quality, and overall capability development.