Senior Data Architect – Databricks & Lakehouse

Acuity Inc.; United States; À distance; USD 124 000 - 169 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Health care

Dental coverage

Vision plans

401K benefits

Incentive compensation

Résumé du poste

Acuity Inc. is seeking a Senior Data Architect to join the DCoE in Cork. You will define scalable, governed data solutions across Databricks, Azure Data Lake, and the enterprise lakehouse, while translating business needs into practical architectures and roadmaps.

The role combines hands-on architecture, prototyping, and engineering governance, partnering with data engineering, platform, and business teams to ensure secure, scalable solutions aligned with objectives.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems, engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 10+ years of hands-on experience in data architecture, data engineering, or solution architecture for modern enterprise data platforms.
• Strong practical expertise with Databricks, Azure Data Lake, Delta Lake, and lakehouse architecture.
• Strong knowledge of ETL/ELT patterns, dimensional and domain modelling, batch and streaming integration, and data-quality controls.
• Experience designing data platforms that support enterprise reporting, analytics, and self-service consumption.
• Working knowledge of Agile delivery, Git, CI/CD, DevOps practices, and Azure DevOps.
• Experience working within Agile and SAFe delivery models.
• Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and technical leadership skills.

Responsabilités

• Define target-state and transition architectures for Databricks, Azure Data Lake, and enterprise lakehouse capabilities.
• Create reference architectures and standards for data ingestion, ETL/ELT, modelling, integration, security, governance, and consumption.
• Translate business capabilities and non-functional requirements into logical and physical data architecture decisions.
• Lead architecture and design reviews, document decisions, and maintain a prioritized architecture roadmap.
• AI Fluency & Emerging Technologies: Pragmatically evaluate and incorporate artificial intelligence, machine learning pipelines, and LLM integrations into core system architectures to modernize capabilities and improve operational efficiency.
• Define domain-oriented data models, bronze/silver/gold patterns, data contracts, and reusable data-product standards.
• Establish expectations for metadata, cataloguing, lineage, data quality, retention, privacy, and role-based access.
• Align curated data with reporting, Power BI, analytics, data science, and AI use cases.
• Partner with governance and security teams to ensure solutions follow enterprise standards.
• Provide hands‑on technical direction, prototypes, and design support throughout Agile delivery.
• Guide engineering teams on scalability, reliability, performance, cost optimization, and maintainability.
• Identify architecture risks, dependencies, and technical debt and track decisions and actions through Azure DevOps.
• Mentor engineers and promote practical architecture guardrails without creating unnecessary delivery friction.

Connaissances

Databricks

Azure Data Lake

Delta Lake

Lakehouse architecture

ETL/ELT patterns

Data modelling

Governance

Azure DevOps

Agile / SAFe

Stakeholder management

Formation

Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field

Outils

Git

CI/CD

Azure DevOps

Description du poste

Acuity Inc. is seeking a Senior Data Architect to join the DCoE in Cork. You will define scalable, governed data solutions across Databricks, Azure Data Lake, and the enterprise lakehouse, while translating business needs into practical architectures and roadmaps.

The role combines hands-on architecture, prototyping, and engineering governance, partnering with data engineering, platform, and business teams to ensure secure, scalable solutions aligned with objectives.