Databricks Solution Architect for Data & Analytics

codvo-team; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Codvo is seeking a Databricks Solution Architect to lead end-to-end data and analytics solutions on the Databricks platform. You will translate complex business needs into scalable, secure data lakehouse architectures and guide customers from concept to implementation and adoption.

Lead architecture decisions, design data pipelines, and enable ML workflows while ensuring governance and cost efficiency. Strong collaboration with cross-functional teams and client-facing activities are key aspects

Qualifications

• 8+ years in solutions/enterprise architecture or senior data engineering.
• 3+ years hands-on with the Databricks platform and Spark-based architectures.
• Deep expertise in Databricks components: Delta Lake, Unity Catalog, Databricks SQL, Delta Live Tables.
• Strong cloud experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP and data storage/compute services.

Responsibilities

• Engage with stakeholders to understand goals and data sources for a holistic Databricks-based solution.
• Design scalable data lakehouse architectures on Databricks (Delta Lake, Unity Catalog, Delta Live Tables)
• Lead architecture decisions and produce reference architectures, solution blueprints, data models, governance models, and integration plans.
• Architect end-to-end data pipelines with reliability, observability, and cost optimization.
• Enable data science and ML workflows on Databricks (MLflow, feature store, notebooks, Automated ML) and design end-to-end MLOps strategies.
• Ensure data governance, security, and compliance (IAM, encryption, Unity Catalog, data masking, lineage, access controls).
• Collaborate with data engineers, data scientists, software engineers, and DevOps to deliver production-ready solutions; implement CI/CD for data and ML pipelines.
• Lead customer-facing activities: workshops, solution demos, proofs of concept, RFPs/RFIs; provide strategic guidance on platform adoption and ROI.
• Mentor and coach junior architects and engineers; develop training materials and run knowledge-sharing sessions.
• Monitor performance, optimize SQL and Spark workloads, manage cluster configurations, and drive cost/performance improvements.

Skills

Databricks

Spark

SQL

Python

Scala

Cloud platforms

Airflow

dbt

Unity Catalog

Tools

Delta Lake

Unity Catalog

Databricks SQL

Delta Live Tables

MLflow

Airflow

dbt

Job description

Codvo is seeking a Databricks Solution Architect to lead end-to-end data and analytics solutions on the Databricks platform. You will translate complex business needs into scalable, secure data lakehouse architectures and guide customers from concept to implementation and adoption.

Lead architecture decisions, design data pipelines, and enable ML workflows while ensuring governance and cost efficiency. Strong collaboration with cross-functional teams and client-facing activities are key aspects