Senior Data Architect Lead - Databricks Lakehouse

Jobtome; Arlington (VA); On-site; USD 149,000 - 248,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

Parental Leave

401(k) Plan

Life Insurance

Discretionary Bonus

Tuition Reimbursement

Student Loan PayDown

Learning Opportunities

Mobility Stipend

Job summary

Guidehouse is seeking a senior Data Architecture lead in the United States to guide enterprise data architecture, data engineering, and analytics modernization. You will own canonical data models, platform patterns, and DataOps practices while shaping security, governance, and scalability across the data stack.

As deputy to the Data Workstream Lead, you will mentor architects, drive architecture decisions, and partner with leadership to ensure successful migrations, mappings, and data-product

Qualifications

• Requires Bachelor’s degree in computer science, data engineering, information systems, engineering or related field.
• Eight+ years in enterprise data architecture, data engineering, cloud platforms, or analytics modernization.
• Experience architecting Databricks lakehouse solutions and Unity Catalog security/governance.

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 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, data-contract framework.
• Define architecture standards for security, privacy, quality, observability, performance, testing, deployment, and supportability.
• Review models, mappings, pipelines, interfaces, and data products for conformance with target architecture.
• Facilitate architecture decisions and communicate tradeoffs to technical teams, business stakeholders, and leadership.
• Mentor architects and engineers and provide technical QA across Prepare, Stabilize, and Operationalize.

Skills

Data architecture

Data engineering

Cloud platforms

Analytics modernization

Databricks lakehouse

Unity Catalog

Data modeling

DataOps

Migration architecture

Leadership

Education

Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field

Tools

Databricks

Azure

AWS

Job description

Guidehouse is seeking a senior Data Architecture lead in the United States to guide enterprise data architecture, data engineering, and analytics modernization. You will own canonical data models, platform patterns, and DataOps practices while shaping security, governance, and scalability across the data stack.

As deputy to the Data Workstream Lead, you will mentor architects, drive architecture decisions, and partner with leadership to ensure successful migrations, mappings, and data-product