Senior Databricks & Data AI Architect (Remote)

Eliassen Group; Topeka (KS); Remote; USD 138,000 - 145,000; Full time

Job summary

Eliassen Group is seeking a Senior Solution Architect to provide technical leadership for a large-scale Data & AI modernization initiative on the Databricks platform. This remote contract role involves working with cross-functional teams to define target architecture, governance, observability, and cost optimization.

The candidate will own the overall architecture, mentor a team of Data & AI engineers, and ensure robust security and compliance across Bronze‑Silver‑Gold data patterns and AI‑ready

Qualifications

• Deep Databricks platform expertise across Lakehouse, Unity Catalog, and governance.
• Strong background in data governance, security, and cost optimization.
• Experience delivering enterprise Databricks Lakehouse architectures.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management.
• Hands-on architecture with ability to mentor engineers.

Responsibilities

• Lead a Databricks Well‑Architected assessment across platform architecture, observability, pipelines, consumption, data quality, security, governance, and cost.
• Establish architectural patterns supporting scalable data ingestion, transformation, analytics, AI, and agent‑based solutions; guide teams on standards and CI/CD.
• Design governance standards leveraging Databricks Unity Catalog; define access controls, data classification, tagging, and lineage; monitor system health.
• Define data architecture standards for Bronze, Silver, and Gold layers; pattern reuse for ingestion, transformation, data quality, lineage; CI/CD.
• Architect an AI‑ready Gold layer with governed data products; semantic and context layers; AI interfaces using Unity Catalog.
• Provide architectural direction and mentorship to Data & AI Engineers; lead architecture reviews; develop reusable patterns and runbooks.
• Deliver secure, observable, cost‑aware, AI‑ready Databricks architecture; produce assessment scorecards and enable operational readiness.

Job description

Eliassen Group is seeking a Senior Solution Architect to provide technical leadership for a large-scale Data & AI modernization initiative on the Databricks platform. This remote contract role involves working with cross-functional teams to define target architecture, governance, observability, and cost optimization.

The candidate will own the overall architecture, mentor a team of Data & AI engineers, and ensure robust security and compliance across Bronze‑Silver‑Gold data patterns and AI‑ready