Senior Databricks, Data & AI Solutions Architect (Remote)

Eliassen Group; Denver (CO); Remote; USD 138,000 - 145,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, Vision benefits

401k with company matching

Life insurance

Referral program $1,000

Job summary

Eliassen Group is partnering with a client to deliver a hands-on Senior Solution Architect role focused on Databricks, Data & AI modernization. You will own architecture, drive platform direction, and mentor senior engineers across governance, semantic layers, and AI/GenAI enablement.

Expect remote, contract engagement with W2 opportunities and a strong benefits package. The role demands leadership across platform, data, security, and eng teams, designing scalable patterns for Bronze-Silver-Gold

Qualifications

• Deep understanding of Databricks Lakeflow connect capabilities and AWS analytics and ingestion services.
• Extensive experience addressing ingestion challenges from Lakeflow connect, including CDC handling.
• Expertise with data quality libraries and configuration-based frameworks that plug DQ into ingestion pipelines.
• Extensive experience designing enterprise Databricks lakehouse architectures with Spark, Delta Lake, Lakeflow, and Unity Catalog.
• Strong experience with medallion architecture and Bronze/Silver/Gold data patterns.
• Experience designing enterprise data governance, lineage, security, and access-control frameworks including ABAC and RBAC.

Responsibilities

• Lead a Databricks well-architected assessment across platform architecture and governance.
• Define target-state architecture and standards for the Data & AI platform.
• Establish architectural patterns for scalable data ingestion, analytics, and AI solutions.
• Design governance standards leveraging Unity Catalog and data classification.
• Define data architecture for Bronze, Silver, and Gold layers and reusable patterns.
• Provide architectural direction and mentorship to Data & AI Engineers.
• Deliver secure, observable, cost-aware Databricks architecture and enable operational readiness.

Skills

Databricks

Lakeflow

Unity Catalog

ABAC/RBAC

CI/CD

Observability

Architectural leadership

Stakeholder collaboration

Tools

Databricks Lakeflow

Databricks Unity Catalog

AWS analytics services

Job description

Eliassen Group is partnering with a client to deliver a hands-on Senior Solution Architect role focused on Databricks, Data & AI modernization. You will own architecture, drive platform direction, and mentor senior engineers across governance, semantic layers, and AI/GenAI enablement.

Expect remote, contract engagement with W2 opportunities and a strong benefits package. The role demands leadership across platform, data, security, and eng teams, designing scalable patterns for Bronze-Silver-Gold