Director-Level Data Architect: Lakehouse & Databricks Visionary

Harnham; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Harnham is seeking a Senior Information Architect to lead enterprise data architecture efforts for a large investment organization in Los Angeles. You will own data models, governance, and Lakehouse patterns, building from the ground up rather than maintaining an existing framework.

You'll work with Databricks Lakehouse on Azure, Delta Lake, Unity Catalog, and across Snowflake/MongoDB for analytics, ML, and GenAI use cases.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience across Data Architecture and Data Modelling.
• Hands-on experience with Databricks, Delta Lake and lakehouse patterns.
• Proven ability to implement medallion architecture.
• Strong knowledge of Unity Catalog and governance.
• Advanced SQL and large-scale data modelling expertise.
• Experience with Kimball, 3NF/Inmon and/or Data Vault.
• Strong Spark optimization and performance.
• Experience with Azure Databricks and ADLS.
• Built data architecture standards and frameworks from scratch.
• Strong stakeholder skills translating business requirements into scalable architecture.

Responsibilities

• Define enterprise data models across conceptual, logical and physical layers.
• Lead Databricks Lakehouse architecture, bronze/silver/gold patterns.
• Design and implement Delta Lake schemas, partitioning and schema evolution.
• Define Unity Catalog governance, lineage and access-control standards.
• Establish data architectures across Databricks, Snowflake and MongoDB.
• Develop enterprise standards, naming conventions and data dictionaries.
• Support analytics, ML and GenAI/RAG use cases with scalable data structures.
• Collaborate with Finance, Accounting and Investments stakeholders.
• Build and maintain architecture frameworks from ground up.

Skills

Databricks

Delta Lake

Data Modeling

SQL Mastery

Stakeholder Skills

GenAI / RAG

Architectural Leadership

Tools

Azure Databricks

Job description

Harnham is seeking a Senior Information Architect to lead enterprise data architecture efforts for a large investment organization in Los Angeles. You will own data models, governance, and Lakehouse patterns, building from the ground up rather than maintaining an existing framework.

You'll work with Databricks Lakehouse on Azure, Delta Lake, Unity Catalog, and across Snowflake/MongoDB for analytics, ML, and GenAI use cases.