Databricks Snowflake Architect

Virtusa; Piscataway Township (NJ); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Virtusa, based in New Jersey, seeks a data engineering leader to design modern data architectures on Databricks, Snowflake and Microsoft Fabric, and to lead end-to-end ingestion, transformation, and modeling using SQL, Spark, and Python.

You will work with healthcare data domains such as claims and eligibility, implement data governance patterns, and contribute to pre-sales with architecture diagrams and proposals.

Qualifications

• Experience designing modern data architectures and data models.
• Strong SQL, Python or PySpark and data modeling skills.
• Knowledge of data governance, lineage, catalog concepts and HIPAA/PHI/PII considerations.

Responsibilities

• Design modern data architectures on Databricks, Snowflake, and Microsoft Fabric.
• Lead end-to-end data ingestion, transformation, and modeling using SQL, Spark, and Python.
• Support healthcare data domains: claims, eligibility, provider, member, clinical data.
• Governance patterns: lineage, catalog.
• Contribute to pre-sales through RFP responses, estimations, architecture diagrams, and proposals.

Skills

SQL

PySpark

Python

Data modeling

Data governance

Tools

Databricks

Snowflake

Microsoft Fabric

Job description

• Design modern data architectures on Databricks, Snowflake, and Microsoft Fabric.
• Lead end-to-end data ingestion, transformation, and modeling using SQL, Spark, and Python.
• Working knowledge of various governance patterns: lineage, catalog.
• Contribute to pre-sales through RFP responses, estimations, architecture diagrams, and proposals.

Job Responsibilities

• Design modern data architectures on Databricks, Snowflake, and Microsoft Fabric.
• Lead end-to-end data ingestion, transformation, and modeling using SQL, Spark, and Python.
• Support healthcare data domains: claims, eligibility, provider, member, clinical data.
• Working knowledge of various governance patterns: lineage, catalog.
• Contribute to pre-sales through RFP responses, estimations, architecture diagrams, and proposals.

Required Skills

• Strong hands-on experience with Databricks (Spark/Delta), Snowflake, or Microsoft Fabric.
• Cloud experience atleast with one of the major providers Azure / AWS/GCP. Preferably GCP
• Strong SQL, PySpark/Python, and data modeling (dimensional, lakehouse).
• Working experience in at least one healthcare data domain: claims, provider, eligibility, utilization, or clinical data.
• Solid understanding of data governance, security, HIPAA, PHI/PII compliance.
• Ability to lead client conversations and explain architectural trade-offs clearly.
• Exposure to FHIR/HL7, interoperability, and payer/provider workflows .

Good To Have Skills

• Must have implemented data products on a Lakehouse either in a data mesh or data fabric construct in a production environment
• Must have utilized AI tools for data engineering and data analytics use cases like data copilot, AI/BI etc.
• Must have experience in managing implementation life cycle from discovery through hyper care, transient and steady state data ops, and optimization
• Ability to participate and advise clients on well architected framework together with partners like databricks, snowflake etc.
• Strong understanding and implementation experience of production like synthetic data sets in non-production environments to facilitate functional and integration tests
• Exposure to leading healthcare source systems like Pega, EHR, Salesforce health cloud and common information Data Model
• Exposure to managing and processing unstructured data sets in healthcare to derive meaningful insights and enhance experience