Senior Data Architecture Lead – Databricks Lakehouse

Jobtome; Seguin (TX); On-site; USD 149,000 - 248,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

401(k) Retirement Plan

Paid holidays

Tuition reimbursement

Employee development

Job summary

Guidehouse is seeking a senior data architecture leader to serve as deputy to the Data Workstream Lead, shaping the target Databricks lakehouse and data product standards. You will drive architecture decisions, mentor teams, and ensure alignment with security, privacy, and DataOps practices.

The role requires obtaining and maintaining a Public Trust, 8+ years in data architecture, and experience with HR / enterprise data models. Travel up to 25% and competitive compensation are provided.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, data engineering, information systems, engineering, or a related field.
• 8+ 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.
• Experience designing migration architectures and guiding source-to-target mapping and conversion decisions.

Responsibilities

• Serve as deputy to the Data Workstream Lead and guide day-to-day architecture decisions.
• Define 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

Data engineering

Cloud platforms

Databricks lakehouse

Data modeling

DataOps patterns

Migration architecture

Security governance

Education

Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field

Tools

Databricks

Unity Catalog

Azure

AWS

Job description

Guidehouse is seeking a senior data architecture leader to serve as deputy to the Data Workstream Lead, shaping the target Databricks lakehouse and data product standards. You will drive architecture decisions, mentor teams, and ensure alignment with security, privacy, and DataOps practices.

The role requires obtaining and maintaining a Public Trust, 8+ years in data architecture, and experience with HR / enterprise data models. Travel up to 25% and competitive compensation are provided.