Senior Data Architecture Lead — Databricks Lakehouse

Jobtome; Converse (IN); On-site; USD 149,000 - 248,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

Dental & Vision Insurance

Paid Holidays

Discretionary bonus

Parental Leave

401(k) Retirement Plan

Life Insurance

Health Savings Account

Disability Insurance

Student Loan PayDown

Tuition Reimbursement

Skills Development

Employee Referral Program

Community Outreach

Mobility Stipend

Job summary

Guidehouse is seeking an experienced Enterprise Data Architect to lead and shape the data-architecture strategy in a sensitive public trust context. You will drive Databricks lakehouse implementations, govern Unity Catalog security, and establish scalable data-product standards while mentoring teams across prepare, stabilize, and operationalize phases.

You will also define migration patterns, data contracts, and ingestion pipelines, coordinating with business stakeholders and leadership to align

Qualifications

• 8+ years in enterprise data architecture, data engineering, cloud platforms, or analytics modernization.
• Experience architecting Databricks lakehouse solutions and Unity Catalog security.
• Strong knowledge of dimensional, relational, canonical, and data-product modeling.
• Experience with ingestion, API, integration, orchestration, metadata, lineage, data contracts, quality, and DataOps patterns.
• Experience designing migration architectures and guiding source-to-target mapping and conversion decisions.

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

Data architecture

Databricks lakehouse

Unity Catalog

Data modeling

DataOps

Migration architecture

Security governance

Mentoring

Stakeholder communication

Education

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

Tools

Databricks

Azure/AWS

Job description

Guidehouse is seeking an experienced Enterprise Data Architect to lead and shape the data-architecture strategy in a sensitive public trust context. You will drive Databricks lakehouse implementations, govern Unity Catalog security, and establish scalable data-product standards while mentoring teams across prepare, stabilize, and operationalize phases.

You will also define migration patterns, data contracts, and ingestion pipelines, coordinating with business stakeholders and leadership to align