Senior Data Architect & Lakehouse Lead

Guidehouse; McLean (VA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

401(k) retirement plan

Parental Leave and Adoption Support

Employee referral program

Tuition reimbursement

Job summary

Guidehouse is seeking a Senior Data Architect to lead data architecture decisions and define secure Databricks lakehouse implementations for HR data and data products. You will establish DataOps patterns, oversee migrations, and ensure governance across pipelines and interfaces.

The role requires extensive experience in enterprise data platforms, cloud environments, and the ability to mentor engineers and communicate with executives. Travel up to 25% may be required.

Qualifications

• Eight or more years of enterprise data architecture or analytics modernization experience.
• Experience architecting Databricks lakehouse solutions and Unity Catalog security.
• Strong knowledge of dimensional, relational, canonical, and data-product models.
• Experience with DataOps, ingestion, metadata, lineage, and data contracts.

Responsibilities

• Serve as deputy to the Data Workstream Lead and guide daily architecture decisions.
• Define secure Databricks lakehouse architecture, environments, and Unity Catalog structure.
• Define canonical HR data models and reusable data-product standards.
• Establish ingestion, transformation, orchestration, APIs, and data contracts.
• Develop migration architecture and source-to-target mappings.
• Define architecture standards for security, privacy, quality, and performance.
• Review models, mappings, pipelines for conformance to target architecture.
• Facilitate decisions and communicate tradeoffs to technical teams and leadership.
• Mentor architects and engineers across Prepare, Stabilize, and Operationalize.

Skills

Data architecture

Databricks lakehouse

Unity Catalog

DataOps

ETL/ELT

Cloud platforms

Architecture governance

Stakeholder communication

Mentoring

Migration architecture

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field

Tools

Databricks

Azure

AWS

Unity Catalog

Job description

Guidehouse is seeking a Senior Data Architect to lead data architecture decisions and define secure Databricks lakehouse implementations for HR data and data products. You will establish DataOps patterns, oversee migrations, and ensure governance across pipelines and interfaces.

The role requires extensive experience in enterprise data platforms, cloud environments, and the ability to mentor engineers and communicate with executives. Travel up to 25% may be required.