Hybrid Data Solution Architect — Databricks & Lakehouse

FCCI Insurance Group; Sarasota (FL); Hybrid; USD 134,000 - 207,000; Full time

Job summary

FCCI Insurance Group in Sarasota is seeking a Data Solution Architect to lead architecture, design, and hands-on development of enterprise data products using Databricks and cloud-native technologies. The role balances strategic leadership with active coding to advance our data platforms and product delivery.

The candidate will mentor junior engineers, drive best practices across CI/CD, data governance, and platform operations, and deliver scalable lakehouse solutions enabling analytics, AI/ML,

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software Engineering or related technical discipline.

Responsibilities

• Lead the architecture and implementation of enterprise data products, lakehouse solutions, and shared platform capabilities utilizing Databricks and cloud-native technologies.
• Define and evolve data product architecture standards, engineering patterns, and reusable frameworks that improve scalability, maintainability, reliability, and delivery velocity across the data, MDM and business intelligence platforms.
• Design, develop, and maintain modern lakehouse architecture leveraging Databricks, Delta Lake, PySpark, Databricks Workflows, Unity Catalog, Delta Sharing, and serverless compute capabilities.
• Serve as a hands-on technical contributor by actively participating in solution design, code development, proof-of-concepts, architecture reviews, and complex technical problem resolution.
• Establish and drive engineering best practices across data modeling, software development, CI/CD, automated testing, observability, performance optimization, and platform operations.
• Develop and maintain scalable, high-performance data architectures, pipelines, and data models that enable analytics, reporting, AI/ML, and data product consumption across the enterprise.
• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to data engineers through design reviews, code reviews, coaching, and knowledge-sharing initiatives that elevate overall engineering proficiency and technical maturity.
• Ensure data products and platform components meet enterprise standards for security, governance, reliability, resiliency, and operational supportability.
• Design and implement data governance, data quality, metadata management, and security controls utilizing Unity Catalog and other platform-native capabilities.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and architectural approaches, recommending pragmatic solutions that balance business value, operational simplicity, scalability, and long-term sustainability.
• Identify and mitigate architectural, operational, and technical risks while creating roadmaps that support the continuous evolution of enterprise data platforms and products.
• Partner with architects, and platform engineers to establish reusable data product patterns and accelerate the delivery of trusted, governed, and discoverable data assets.

Skills

Databricks

Python

SQL

Data modeling

CI/CD

Observability

Platform operations

MLOps

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software Engineering or a related technical discipline

Tools

Databricks

Apache Spark

Delta Lake

Unity Catalog

Databricks Workflows

dbt

Job description

FCCI Insurance Group in Sarasota is seeking a Data Solution Architect to lead architecture, design, and hands-on development of enterprise data products using Databricks and cloud-native technologies. The role balances strategic leadership with active coding to advance our data platforms and product delivery.

The candidate will mentor junior engineers, drive best practices across CI/CD, data governance, and platform operations, and deliver scalable lakehouse solutions enabling analytics, AI/ML,