Senior Data & AI Platform Architect — Remote

Delan Associates, Inc; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Delan Associates, Inc. is hiring a Principal Solution Architect — Data & AI Platform to lead AI-ready data capabilities on a Databricks Lakehouse foundation, focusing on LLM-powered analytics and governance.

Responsibilities include designing platform architecture with Databricks, Delta Lake and Unity Catalog; building secure GenAI patterns (RAG, embeddings, vector search); enabling agentic AI workflows, metadata discovery, and data quality checks.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in solution architecture and Data & AI platforms.
• Expertise with Databricks Lakehouse and modern lakehouse design patterns.
• Experience in building AI-enabled data products and governance patterns.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive Data and AI platform architecture using Databricks, Delta Lake, and Unity Catalog.
• Architect secure LLM and GenAI enablement patterns including RAG and vector search.
• Design agentic AI capabilities for metadata discovery, lineage, and data quality investigations.
• Establish architecture standards for AI-ready data products and semantic layers.

Skills

CI/CD

SQL

Tools

Databricks Lakehouse

Delta Lake

Unity Catalog

LLM/GenAI infrastructure

Job description

Delan Associates, Inc. is hiring a Principal Solution Architect — Data & AI Platform to lead AI-ready data capabilities on a Databricks Lakehouse foundation, focusing on LLM-powered analytics and governance.

Responsibilities include designing platform architecture with Databricks, Delta Lake and Unity Catalog; building secure GenAI patterns (RAG, embeddings, vector search); enabling agentic AI workflows, metadata discovery, and data quality checks.