Senior Databricks & Data Architecture Lead (AI-Ready)

Eliassen Group; Boise (ID); Remote; USD 138,000 - 145,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

Dental benefits

Vision benefits

401k with company matching

Life insurance

Job summary

Eliassen Group is seeking a Senior Solution Architect to lead Databricks, Data & AI modernization initiatives remotely. The role combines enterprise architecture with hands‑on platform design, governance, and problem solving across data pipelines, quality, lineage, and AI readiness.

You will mentor engineers, establish standards, and collaborate with platform, data, security, and business stakeholders to deliver scalable, secure architectures and reusable patterns.

Qualifications

• Deep expertise across Databricks platform modernization and data engineering.
• Experience designing enterprise Databricks lakehouse architectures with Bronze/Silver/Gold patterns.
• Proven ability to lead architecture reviews and set standards across teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead a Databricks Well‑Architected assessment across platform architecture, observability, pipelines, and governance.
• Define target‑state architecture and standards for Data & AI platform.
• Guide engineering teams to implement standards and remediation priorities.
• Define data architecture standards and reusable patterns for ingestion, transformation, data quality, lineage, and deployment.
• Architect AI‑ready data products and governance interfaces using Unity Catalog and GP workflows.
• Provide mentorship and drive architecture reviews with stakeholders across business and security.
• Deliver scalable, secure, cost‑aware Databricks architecture with runbooks and documentation.

Skills

Databricks

Lakeflow

Unity Catalog

ABAC/RBAC

CI/CD

GenAI governance

MCP

Data governance

Observability

Data architecture

AWS analytics

Tools

Databricks Lakeflow

Lakeflow

YAML/Control tables

Unity Catalog

Job description

Eliassen Group is seeking a Senior Solution Architect to lead Databricks, Data & AI modernization initiatives remotely. The role combines enterprise architecture with hands‑on platform design, governance, and problem solving across data pipelines, quality, lineage, and AI readiness.

You will mentor engineers, establish standards, and collaborate with platform, data, security, and business stakeholders to deliver scalable, secure architectures and reusable patterns.