Principal Databricks Architect: Lakehouse AI Leader

Nimble Gravity, LLC; Denver (CO); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Nimble Gravity, LLC is seeking a Principal Databricks Architect to lead lakehouse modernization and to serve as the technical voice in our Databricks partnership. You will shape scope of work, drive architecture decisions, and mentor engineers across cloud, data, and AI workloads.

The ideal candidate will have years of hands-on Databricks delivery, a current Databricks Champion certification, and a track record translating depth into business outcomes through governance, security, and scalable

Qualifications

• Current Databricks Champion certification in good standing.
• Shareable link to your Databricks credentials wallet showing all active certifications; verification will occur prior to offer.
• 10+ years in data engineering or data architecture, with 4+ years of hands-on Databricks experience.
• Proven delivery of production lakehouse implementations, including Delta Lake, Unity Catalog, Workflows or Lakeflow, and Databricks SQL.
• Strong command of Spark (PySpark and SQL), data modeling, and performance tuning.
• Experience designing security and governance: access controls, lineage, PII handling, and compliance needs in regulated industries.
• Cloud depth, ideally Azure (ADLS, Entra ID, networking, DevOps), with working knowledge of AWS or GCP.
• Comfort presenting to clients, from technical teams to C-suite.
• Clear written and verbal communication; explain tradeoffs to executives and dive deep with engineers.

Responsibilities

• Architect and deliver lakehouse implementations, platform migrations, and modernization programs on Databricks (Azure preferred).
• Design Delta Lake, medallion, and Unity Catalog patterns balancing performance, cost, governance, and speed to value.
• Own technical direction for migrations from legacy platforms into Databricks and Fabric/Power BI ecosystems.
• Define standards for ingestion, orchestration, CI/CD, testing, observability, and FinOps.
• Architect for AI readiness, including feature pipelines, Mosaic AI, model serving, and GenAI/use cases built on governed data.

Skills

Databricks

PySpark/SQL

Data modeling

Security & governance

Executive communication

Client-facing

Tools

Power BI

Microsoft Fabric

Job description

Nimble Gravity, LLC is seeking a Principal Databricks Architect to lead lakehouse modernization and to serve as the technical voice in our Databricks partnership. You will shape scope of work, drive architecture decisions, and mentor engineers across cloud, data, and AI workloads.

The ideal candidate will have years of hands-on Databricks delivery, a current Databricks Champion certification, and a track record translating depth into business outcomes through governance, security, and scalable