Senior Data Architect & Lakehouse Lead

Guidehouse; Arlington (VA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

401(k) Retirement Plan

Mobility Stipend

Tuition Reimbursement

Emergency Back-Up Childcare

Job summary

Guidehouse in Arlington, VA is seeking a senior Data Architecture lead to serve as deputy to the Data Workstream Lead and steer daily technical architecture decisions. You will define the secure Databricks lakehouse architecture, environments, workspaces, storage patterns, identity and access considerations, and Unity Catalog structure.

You will also define canonical HR data models, domain boundaries, curated layers, semantic approaches, and reusable data-product standards, while establishing

Qualifications

• Must be able to OBTAIN and MAINTAIN a Federal or DHS "PUBLIC TRUST"; candidates must obtain approved adjudication prior to onboarding.
• Eight (8) or more years of experience in enterprise data architecture, data engineering, cloud platforms, or analytics modernization.
• Experience architecting Databricks lakehouse solutions and Unity Catalog security and governance structures.
• Strong knowledge of dimensional, relational, canonical, and data-product modeling patterns.
• Experience with ingestion, API, integration, orchestration, metadata, lineage, data contracts, quality, and DataOps patterns.

Responsibilities

• Serve as deputy to the Data Workstream Lead and lead day-to-day technical architecture decisions.
• Define the secure Databricks lakehouse architecture, environments, workspaces, storage patterns, identity and access considerations, and Unity Catalog structure.
• Define canonical HR data models, domain boundaries, curated layers, semantic approaches, and reusable data-product standards.
• Establish DataOps, ingestion, transformation, orchestration, integration, API, and other consumption patterns.
• Develop the migration architecture, source-to-target design standards, metadata and lineage approach, and data-contract framework.
• Define architecture standards for security, privacy, quality, observability, performance, testing, deployment, and supportability.
• Review detailed models, mappings, pipelines, interfaces, and data products for conformance with the target architecture.
• Facilitate architecture decisions and communicate tradeoffs to technical teams, business stakeholders, and leadership.
• Mentor architects and engineers and provide technical quality assurance across Prepare, Stabilize, and Operationalize.

Skills

Databricks Lakehouse

Data Architecture

DataOps patterns

Public Trust clearance

Education

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, data engineering, information systems, engineering

Tools

Databricks

Unity Catalog

Cloud platforms (Azure/AWS)

Job description

Guidehouse in Arlington, VA is seeking a senior Data Architecture lead to serve as deputy to the Data Workstream Lead and steer daily technical architecture decisions. You will define the secure Databricks lakehouse architecture, environments, workspaces, storage patterns, identity and access considerations, and Unity Catalog structure.

You will also define canonical HR data models, domain boundaries, curated layers, semantic approaches, and reusable data-product standards, while establishing