Remote Data Architect - Employee Systems (Databricks)

ECS Corporate Services; Fairfax (VA); Remote; USD 150,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

ECS Corporate Services is seeking an Enterprise Architect - Data & Employee Systems (Databricks) to design and own the company-wide data architecture for employee data, leveraging Databricks as the core platform. The role involves translating policy, standards, and business logic into a secure, scalable architecture.

You will lead governance, security, and platform best practices, collaborate with HR, Legal, and IT, and drive a roadmap for the employee data platform while enabling trusted

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience with Databricks including Delta Lake and Unity Catalog.
• Proof of designing enterprise-level data architecture for HR or sensitive data.
• Strong knowledge of data governance, privacy regulations, and compliance.
• Ability to translate policy into technical specifications for architecture.

Responsibilities

• Design end-to-end data architecture for employee data on Databricks.
• Translate policy and standards into concrete architecture and data models.
• Encode business rules into the data architecture.
• Define data access controls, lineage, and audit mechanisms.
• Set best practices for Databricks usage and cost optimization.
• Collaborate with data engineers, security, HR systems, and compliance.
• Maintain diagrams, dictionaries, and a roadmap for the platform.

Skills

Databricks

Delta Lake

Unity Catalog

Workflows

Cluster management

Cost optimization

Data governance

Data modeling

Privacy compliance

Communication

Tools

Azure

AWS

GCP

Job description

ECS Corporate Services is seeking an Enterprise Architect - Data & Employee Systems (Databricks) to design and own the company-wide data architecture for employee data, leveraging Databricks as the core platform. The role involves translating policy, standards, and business logic into a secure, scalable architecture.

You will lead governance, security, and platform best practices, collaborate with HR, Legal, and IT, and drive a roadmap for the employee data platform while enabling trusted