Lead Data Platform Architect - Azure Databricks & AI

NovaSource Power Services; Chandler (AZ); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

NovaSource Power Services seeks a hands-on Data & Analytics Platform Architect to own and evolve our Azure/Databricks-based data ecosystem. You will drive multi-layer data pipelines, governance, and scalable architectures to support analytics, BI, and AI/ML workloads.

Responsibilities include defining data models, enforcing standards, and mentoring teams while integrating AI capabilities and secure data access across environments.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Data Engineering, Data Science, or related field.
• 10+ years building and evolving large-scale data analytics platforms with ETL/ELT, cloud services, and MLOps.
• Deep expertise in SQL with performance tuning across SQL Server or Azure SQL.
• Hands-on with Microsoft Azure data services (Azure SQL, Data Factory, Synapse, Data Lake).
• Proven experience designing and building on Databricks (Delta Lake, Spark).
• Knowledge of data lakehouse, data mesh, governance, security, and RBAC.
• Experience automating DBA and data operations to reduce manual tasks.
• Experience with contractual or regulatory reporting in energy/utility/finance.

Responsibilities

• Architect, build, and improve the enterprise data platform for reliability and scalability.
• Own full data platform lifecycle from schema design to monitoring and incident response.
• Enforce data modeling standards, naming conventions, and governance across environments.
• Implement access controls, encryption, and privacy measures for compliance.
• Design dimensional models (stars) on Azure Databricks for analytics and reporting.
• Lead data mesh adoption across multiple repositories and enable AI/ML capabilities.

Skills

SQL

Azure Databricks

Azure Synapse

Data Modeling

Data Governance

ETL/ELT

DevOps

RBAC

AI/ML integration

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Azure Data Factory

Azure Synapse Analytics

Azure Data Lake

Azure SQL

Delta Lake

Databricks

Job description

NovaSource Power Services seeks a hands-on Data & Analytics Platform Architect to own and evolve our Azure/Databricks-based data ecosystem. You will drive multi-layer data pipelines, governance, and scalable architectures to support analytics, BI, and AI/ML workloads.

Responsibilities include defining data models, enforcing standards, and mentoring teams while integrating AI capabilities and secure data access across environments.