Senior Databricks Lakehouse Architect - Remote

OZ; United States; A distancia; USD 160.000 - 215.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Competitive pay

401K

Health coverage

Descripción de la vacante

OZ is seeking a highly experienced Principal Consultant - Databricks to serve as the senior technical authority for complex enterprise data-platform engagements. You will own the technical vision and target-state architecture for Azure Databricks initiatives, shaping secure, scalable lakehouse solutions and guiding multidisciplinary teams through discovery to production delivery.

You will lead architecture workshops, oversee design standards, and contribute to pre-sales, staffing, and delivery

Formación

• 10+ years in enterprise data and analytics consulting.
• 5+ years architecting and delivering production Databricks or Lakehouse solutions.
• 3+ years in senior technical leadership, solution architecture, or principal-level consulting roles.
• Demonstrated experience as the senior technical authority for complex enterprise data-platform engagements, with accountability from discovery through production delivery.
• Deep Azure Databricks expertise across platform architecture, data engineering, Unity Catalog governance, operationalization, performance, and cost management.
• Strong command of Apache Spark, PySpark, Python, SQL, Delta Lake, batch and streaming patterns, ETL/ELT, data modeling, data quality, performance tuning, and production troubleshooting.
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Entra ID, Azure networking and private connectivity, ADLS, secrets and key management, monitoring, and related Azure data services.
• Databricks Partner Champion or Delivery Expert recognition, partner or Center of Excellence leadership, co-sell experience, or work in regulated and security-sensitive industries.
• Experience with Git-based development, automated testing, CI/CD, environment promotion, infrastructure as code, deployment automation, observability, runbooks, and support models.
• Strong consulting and business acumen, with the ability to connect architecture decisions to customer outcomes, delivery risk, scope, margin, adoption, and platform consumption.
• Executive-level written, verbal, facilitation, and presentation skills, with the technical depth to engage architects and engineers.
• Experience in discovery, estimation, staffing, proposal or SOW development, technical pre-sales, delivery leadership, and multidisciplinary team guidance.
• Self-directed and collaborative leadership style with sound judgment, resilience, empathy, and the ability to create structure in ambiguous situations.

Responsabilidades

• Own Technical Vision and Architecture: Define target-state architecture, principles, standards, and roadmaps for complex Azure Databricks engagements
• Lead Discovery and Architecture Workshops: Translate business priorities, security needs, operational constraints, and success measures into actionable solution designs
• Design Enterprise Lakehouse Platforms: Architect secure and scalable solutions spanning ingestion, storage, transformation, orchestration, analytics, data sharing, and AI/ML enablement
• Establish Platform Standards: Define engineering, governance, identity, networking, CI/CD, observability, reliability, performance, and cost-optimization practices
• Provide Delivery Oversight: Review critical implementation artifacts, identify risks early, guide technical decisions, and maintain alignment between sold and delivered solutions
• Support Pre-sales and Solutioning: Contribute to qualification, solution shaping, estimates, staffing plans, proposals, statements of work, demonstrations, and executive presentations
• Build Reusable Consulting Assets: Develop reference architectures, accelerators, assessment methods, estimation models, delivery playbooks, and thought leadership
• Mentor and Collaborate: Guide architects, engineers, and consultants while partnering with Databricks, Microsoft, customer stakeholders, sales teams, and internal practices

Conocimientos

Leadership

Executive communication

Delivery leadership

Business acumen

Mentorship

Herramientas

Azure Databricks

Delta Lake

Unity Catalog

Databricks SQL

Spark

PySpark

Python

SQL

Git

GitHub

Azure DevOps

Terraform

Databricks CLI

MLflow

Power BI

Azure Data Factory

Microsoft Fabric

Purview

Descripción del empleo

OZ is seeking a highly experienced Principal Consultant - Databricks to serve as the senior technical authority for complex enterprise data-platform engagements. You will own the technical vision and target-state architecture for Azure Databricks initiatives, shaping secure, scalable lakehouse solutions and guiding multidisciplinary teams through discovery to production delivery.

You will lead architecture workshops, oversee design standards, and contribute to pre-sales, staffing, and delivery