Lead Data Architect, Databricks & DataOps

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

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

Parental Leave

401(k) Plan

Life Insurance

Disability Insurance

Student Loan PayDown

Tuition Reimbursement

Mobility Stipend

Professional Development

Job summary

Guidehouse seeks an experienced Data Architect to lead architectural decisions for a Data Workstream and define secure Databricks lakehouse architectures. The role requires 8+ years in enterprise data architecture, strong data modeling, and DataOps capabilities.

You will mentor engineers and align data products with governance and security standards. The position is based in San Antonio, TX, with travel up to 25% and a focus on HR, financial, and ERP data domains.

Qualifications

• Must have PUBLIC TRUST clearance eligibility
• Eight or more years of enterprise data architecture/engineering experience
• Experience with Databricks lakehouse and Unity Catalog
• Knowledge of dimensional/relational/data-product modeling
• Experience with ingestion, APIs, orchestration, metadata, lineage, data contracts and DataOps
• Experience designing migration architectures and source-to-target mappings

Responsibilities

• Lead day-to-day technical architecture decisions as deputy to Data Workstream Lead
• Define secure Databricks lakehouse architecture, environments, storage patterns, IAM considerations, Unity Catalog
• Define canonical HR data models, domain boundaries, curated layers, semantic approaches, data-product standards
• Establish DataOps, ingestion, transformation, orchestration, integration, API consumption patterns
• Develop migration architecture, source-to-target design standards, metadata and lineage approach
• Define architecture standards for security, privacy, quality, observability, performance, testing, deployment
• Review models, mappings, pipelines and data products for conformance with target architecture
• Facilitate architecture decisions and communicate tradeoffs to technical teams and leadership
• Mentor architects and engineers and provide technical QA across Prepare, Stabilize, and Operationalize

Skills

8+ years experience

Databricks lakehouse

Unity Catalog

Data modeling

DataOps patterns

Migration design

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/IS/Engineering

Job description

Guidehouse seeks an experienced Data Architect to lead architectural decisions for a Data Workstream and define secure Databricks lakehouse architectures. The role requires 8+ years in enterprise data architecture, strong data modeling, and DataOps capabilities.

You will mentor engineers and align data products with governance and security standards. The position is based in San Antonio, TX, with travel up to 25% and a focus on HR, financial, and ERP data domains.