Senior Data Architect: AWS & Databricks Lakehouse (Remote)

KTek Resourcing; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

KTek Resourcing is seeking an experienced Data Architect to design, build and govern modern data platforms on AWS and Databricks. This remote, full-time role requires hands-on expertise with Delta Lake, Unity Catalog, Spark/PySpark and cloud data services, plus leadership of data engineers and collaboration with business stakeholders.

You will define scalable architectures for ingestion, storage, processing, and consumption, and establish standards for data quality, security, and lineage while

Qualifications

• 8+ years in data engineering or data architecture roles.
• Hands-on design and implementation of enterprise-scale data platforms.
• Extensive AWS production experience.
• Proven leadership of data engineers and cross-functional collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Design end-to-end data platforms using AWS and Databricks.
• Define ingestion, storage, processing, and consumption architectures.
• Build scalable ETL/ELT pipelines for high-volume data.
• Lead Databricks environments, clusters, jobs, and workflows.
• Govern data access, security, and lineage via Unity Catalog.
• Collaborate with architects and stakeholders on standards.

Skills

AWS

Databricks

Delta Lake

Unity Catalog

Apache Spark / PySpark

Data Governance

ETL/ELT pipelines

Lakehouse architecture

Tools

AWS

Apache Spark

Python

Job description

KTek Resourcing is seeking an experienced Data Architect to design, build and govern modern data platforms on AWS and Databricks. This remote, full-time role requires hands-on expertise with Delta Lake, Unity Catalog, Spark/PySpark and cloud data services, plus leadership of data engineers and collaboration with business stakeholders.

You will define scalable architectures for ingestion, storage, processing, and consumption, and establish standards for data quality, security, and lineage while