Remote Databricks Solutions Architect - Data & AI

EPAM Systems; McLean (VA); Remote; USD 180,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) plan

Paid time off

Dental insurance

Education perks

Job summary

EPAM Systems is seeking a Databricks Solution Architect to design and deliver governed data, analytics, and AI platforms on Databricks for enterprise clients across North America. You will join pre-sales pursuits to shape solutions, estimates, and proposals, working with multidisciplinary teams.

You will lead end-to-end lakehouse architectures, drive governance with Unity Catalog, and craft AI/machine-learning delivery using MLflow and vector search.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in data engineering, data architecture, or software development.
• 3+ years designing solutions on Databricks.

Responsibilities

• Design end-to-end Lakehouse architectures on Databricks (Azure, AWS, or GCP).
• Lead discovery and architecture workshops with client executives and engineering teams.
• Partner with sales and Databricks field team on pursuits: shape solutions, RFPs, proposals, estimates, and POCs.
• Define target architectures and migration paths to Databricks.
• Architect governance with Unity Catalog including access control and data sharing.
• Design AI solutions (RAG, agentic workflows, Model Serving, MLflow).
• Guide delivery teams through build and go-live, review and optimize designs.
• Run performance tuning and FinOps reviews for Spark and Databricks SQL workloads.

Skills

Databricks

Python

SQL

Spark

Unity Catalog

Cloud platforms

Pre-sales

Tools

Databricks SQL

Unity Catalog

Delta Lake

Job description

EPAM Systems is seeking a Databricks Solution Architect to design and deliver governed data, analytics, and AI platforms on Databricks for enterprise clients across North America. You will join pre-sales pursuits to shape solutions, estimates, and proposals, working with multidisciplinary teams.

You will lead end-to-end lakehouse architectures, drive governance with Unity Catalog, and craft AI/machine-learning delivery using MLflow and vector search.