Lead Data Architect - Databricks Lakehouse & DataOps

Socket.dev; Tysons (VA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Rx, Dental & Vision Insurance

Sick time & Holidays

Discretionary bonus potential

Parental Leave & Adoption Assistance

401(k) Plan

Life Insurance

HSA & Spending Accounts

Job summary

Guidehouse is seeking a senior data architect to lead the data architecture at scale in a federal/public-trust context. The role defines secure Databricks lakehouse implementations, data-product standards, and DataOps practices.

You will mentor teams and drive architecture decisions across projects while ensuring compliance, security, and performance. Ideal candidates bring 8+ years of enterprise data experience, strong modeling skills, and hands-on experience with Databricks and Unity Catalog

Qualifications

• 8+ years 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.

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

Enterprise data architecture

Databricks lakehouse

Unity Catalog security

Data modeling

DataOps

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related field

Tools

Databricks

Unity Catalog

Azure

AWS

Job description

Guidehouse is seeking a senior data architect to lead the data architecture at scale in a federal/public-trust context. The role defines secure Databricks lakehouse implementations, data-product standards, and DataOps practices.

You will mentor teams and drive architecture decisions across projects while ensuring compliance, security, and performance. Ideal candidates bring 8+ years of enterprise data experience, strong modeling skills, and hands-on experience with Databricks and Unity Catalog