Lead Data Engineering & Lakehouse Architect

Databricks; United States; On-site; USD 219,000 - 301,000; Full time

Job summary

Databricks is seeking a Sr. Specialist Solutions Architect focused on data engineering and warehousing to guide customers through cloud transformations. You will collaborate with Solutions Architects and contribute to production-grade lakehouse environments using Spark, Delta Lake, and streaming tech.

You will help customers evaluate, plan production for BI workloads, and mentor peers while traveling up to 30% as needed. Databricks offers a wide array of benefits and a strong, diverse culture.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in a technical role with deep data engineering expertise across ingestion, streaming, performance tuning, and debugging big data solutions.
• Experience building data-driven use cases (risk modeling, fraud detection, LTV).
• Advanced query tuning, data governance, and migrating workloads across EDW to cloud platforms.
• Experience with SIEM tools and telemetry/log ingestion.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership to guide customers to successful implementations on big data projects and data warehousing workloads.
• Architect production data pipelines with end-to-end testing and optimization.
• Become a technical expert in data lake tech, streaming, or data ingestion workflows.
• Assist Solutions Architects with advanced technical aspects of sales, including proof of concepts and workload sizing.
• Provide tutorials and training to improve community adoption and participate in Databricks Community.
• Contribute to Databricks Community.

Skills

Data engineering

Lakehouse

Spark Streaming

Kafka

Data warehousing

Data observability

Pre-sales experience

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering or equivalent

Tools

Spark

Kafka

Delta Lake

Python

Scala/Java

Job description

Databricks is seeking a Sr. Specialist Solutions Architect focused on data engineering and warehousing to guide customers through cloud transformations. You will collaborate with Solutions Architects and contribute to production-grade lakehouse environments using Spark, Delta Lake, and streaming tech.

You will help customers evaluate, plan production for BI workloads, and mentor peers while traveling up to 30% as needed. Databricks offers a wide array of benefits and a strong, diverse culture.