Lead Data Architect & Deputy Data Workstream Lead

Guidehouse; San Antonio (TX); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Guidehouse in San Antonio, TX, seeks a senior data architect to support the Data Workstream Lead. You will define secure Databricks lakehouse architecture, environments, storage patterns, Unity Catalog, and data-product standards while guiding data engineering teams.

You will establish DataOps, ingestion, transformation, orchestration, and metadata strategies, review mappings for conformance, and communicate tradeoffs to stakeholders.

Qualifications

• 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, orchestration, metadata, lineage, data contracts, quality, and DataOps patterns.
• 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

Data Architecture

Databricks Lakehouse

Data Modeling

DataOps

Cloud Platforms

Architecture Governance

Executive Communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS / IT / related field

Tools

Databricks

Unity Catalog

SQL/ETL

Job description

Guidehouse in San Antonio, TX, seeks a senior data architect to support the Data Workstream Lead. You will define secure Databricks lakehouse architecture, environments, storage patterns, Unity Catalog, and data-product standards while guiding data engineering teams.

You will establish DataOps, ingestion, transformation, orchestration, and metadata strategies, review mappings for conformance, and communicate tradeoffs to stakeholders.