Senior Databricks Lakehouse Architect – Remote

V4C.ai; United States; Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Unlimited PTO

Health Care Plan (Medical, Dental &amp

Retirement Plan (401k, IRA)

Life Insurance (Basic, Voluntary &

Family Leave (Maternity, Paternity)

Short Term & Long Term Disability

Training & Development

Remote/WFH

Job summary

V4C.ai is seeking a Data Architect to own target-state Lakehouse architecture for enterprise engagements. You will drive ingestion, storage, governance, and cost decisions while guiding engineers through modern cloud migrations from legacy estates.

You will assess legacy architectures, define data models, and enforce Unity Catalog governance. This role combines hands-on design with leadership across multiple workstreams.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in data engineering/architecture or analytics platform development.
• Demonstrated ownership of end-to-end architecture for at least two enterprise-scale data platforms.
• Deep experience migrating legacy data warehouses or ETL estates to a modern cloud platform.
• Strong proficiency in Python and SQL; working knowledge of Apache Spark and distributed processing fundamentals.

Responsibilities

• Own the target-state Lakehouse architecture on enterprise engagements, including ingestion, storage, transformation, serving, and governance layers.
• Lead architecture assessments of legacy estates and produce migration paths with sequencing, risk, and effort.
• Define data modeling standards and Medallion layer conventions, and hold engineering teams to them across concurrent workstreams.
• Set the Unity Catalog governance model: catalogs, schemas, access patterns, lineage, and audit posture.
• Make and document platform trade-offs (compute sizing, storage format, streaming versus batch, build versus buy) with cost and performance reasoning a customer can take to their CFO.
• Provide technical input into scoping and effort estimation on new engagements, including pre-sales discovery and proof-of-concept design.
• Mentor senior engineers, review designs, and raise the architectural bar across the practice.
• Produce reference architectures, diagrams, and internal accelerators that make the next engagement faster.

Skills

Python

SQL

Data modeling

CI/CD & DevOps

Tools

Apache Spark

Unity Catalog

Delta Lake

MLOps

Job description

V4C.ai is seeking a Data Architect to own target-state Lakehouse architecture for enterprise engagements. You will drive ingestion, storage, governance, and cost decisions while guiding engineers through modern cloud migrations from legacy estates.

You will assess legacy architectures, define data models, and enforce Unity Catalog governance. This role combines hands-on design with leadership across multiple workstreams.