Deputy Data Workstream Lead & Lakehouse Architect

Guidehouse; San Antonio (TX); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Rx, Dental & Vision Insurance

Parental Leave and Adoption Assistance

401(k) Retirement Plan

Health Savings Account

Job summary

Guidehouse is seeking an experienced Data Architect to serve as deputy to the Data Workstream Lead in San Antonio, TX. You will define Databricks lakehouse architecture, data models, and data-product standards, while steering data ingestion, migration, and governance strategies.

You will mentor engineers, review pipelines for conformance, and communicate tradeoffs to leadership. A federal/public trust clearance is required for onboarding.

Qualifications

• Must be able to OBTAIN and MAINTAIN a Federal or DHS Public Trust before onboarding.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, data engineering, information systems, engineering, or a related field.
• 8+ years of experience in enterprise data architecture, data engineering, cloud platforms, or analytics modernization.
• Experience architecting Databricks lakehouse solutions and Unity Catalog security and governance structures.
• Strong knowledge of dimensional, relational, canonical, and data-product modeling patterns.
• Experience with ingestion, API, integration, orchestration, metadata, lineage, data contracts, quality, and DataOps patterns.
• Experience designing migration architectures and guiding source-to-target mapping and conversion decisions.

Responsibilities

• - Serve as deputy to the Data Workstream Lead and lead day-to-day technical architecture decisions.
• - Define the secure Databricks lakehouse architecture, environments, workspaces, storage patterns, identity and access considerations, and Unity Catalog structure.
• - Define canonical HR data models, domain boundaries, curated layers, semantic approaches, and reusable data-product standards.
• - Establish DataOps, ingestion, transformation, orchestration, integration, API, and other consumption patterns.
• - Develop the migration architecture, source-to-target design standards, metadata and lineage approach, and data-contract framework.
• - Define architecture standards for security, privacy, quality, observability, performance, testing, deployment, and supportability.
• - Review detailed models, mappings, pipelines, interfaces, and data products for conformance with the target architecture.
• - Facilitate architecture decisions and communicate tradeoffs to technical teams, business stakeholders, and leadership.
• - Mentor architects and engineers and provide technical quality assurance across Prepare, Stabilize, and Operationalize.

Skills

Data architecture

Data engineering

Cloud platforms

Data governance

Mentoring

Stakeholder communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, data engineering, information systems, engineering

Tools

Databricks Lakehouse

Unity Catalog

Job description

Guidehouse is seeking an experienced Data Architect to serve as deputy to the Data Workstream Lead in San Antonio, TX. You will define Databricks lakehouse architecture, data models, and data-product standards, while steering data ingestion, migration, and governance strategies.

You will mentor engineers, review pipelines for conformance, and communicate tradeoffs to leadership. A federal/public trust clearance is required for onboarding.