Lead Data Architect: Databricks Lakehouse & DataOps

Jobtome; Universal City (TX); On-site; USD 149,000 - 248,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Rx, Dental & Vision Insurance

Parental Leave and Adoption Assistance

401(k) Retirement Plan

Tuition Reimbursement, Personal Dev &L

Mobility Stipend

Job summary

Guidehouse in the United States is seeking a senior Data Architect to lead day-to-day architectural decisions and define Databricks lakehouse architectures with Unity Catalog security. You will mentor engineers and align data models with enterprise patterns.

The role requires building DataOps patterns, migration strategies, and governance across HR, canonical, and relational models, with travel up to 25% and eligibility for public trust clearance.

Qualifications

• Must be able to OBTAIN and MAINTAIN a Federal or DHS "PUBLIC TRUST"; candidates must obtain approved adjudication prior to onboarding.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, data engineering, information systems, engineering, or 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.
• 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

Enterprise data architecture

Education

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

Job description

Guidehouse in the United States is seeking a senior Data Architect to lead day-to-day architectural decisions and define Databricks lakehouse architectures with Unity Catalog security. You will mentor engineers and align data models with enterprise patterns.

The role requires building DataOps patterns, migration strategies, and governance across HR, canonical, and relational models, with travel up to 25% and eligibility for public trust clearance.