Lead Databricks Architect for Banking Lakehouse

Sutherland; Dallas (TX); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Sutherland Healthcare Solutions is seeking a Lead Databricks Architect to drive the strategy, design, and implementation of our enterprise lakehouse platform for banking data. You will bridge banking requirements with scalable data architectures, enabling regulatory reporting, risk analytics, fraud detection, and real-time processing.

Join a team shaping AI-driven data solutions across enterprise systems, with opportunities to influence security, governance, and cross-cloud deployments in a

Qualifications

• 5+ years designing and running large-scale Databricks environments in production.
• Deep knowledge of AWS, Azure, or GCP data services.
• 3+ years in retail bank, investment bank, or financial services institution.
• Familiarity with core banking operations, payments, lending, risk, AML, or fraud data structures.
• Strong understanding of banking data compliance, auditability, and data sovereignty.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement an enterprise-grade Databricks Lakehouse architecture using Delta Lake, Unity Catalog, and Databricks SQL for financial data.
• Establish high-throughput batch and real-time streaming pipelines (Structured Streaming, Auto Loader) integrating core banking systems and data providers.
• Migrate from legacy warehouses (Teradata, Oracle, Snowflake, mainframe) to Databricks.
• Establish CI/CD, DevOps, and MLOps automation for deployment and data quality validation.
• Collaborate with Data Science, Quantitative Analytics, and BI teams for advanced modeling and customer analytics.
• Provide technical leadership and architecture governance to data engineering and analytics teams.

Skills

Databricks Expertise

Cloud Architecture

Data Processing

Governance & Security

DevOps & IaC

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in CS/Engineering

Databricks Certification (preferred)

Tools

Terraform

GitHub Actions

Azure DevOps

Jenkins

Databricks Asset Bundles

Job description

Sutherland Healthcare Solutions is seeking a Lead Databricks Architect to drive the strategy, design, and implementation of our enterprise lakehouse platform for banking data. You will bridge banking requirements with scalable data architectures, enabling regulatory reporting, risk analytics, fraud detection, and real-time processing.

Join a team shaping AI-driven data solutions across enterprise systems, with opportunities to influence security, governance, and cross-cloud deployments in a