Senior Databricks Platform Architect - Azure & AWS

AT&T; Alpharetta (GA); On-site; USD 155,000 - 261,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision coverage

401(k) plan

Tuition reimbursement

Paid Time Off and Holidays

Paid Parental Leave

Paid Caregiver Leave

Adoption Reimbursement

Disability Benefits

Life and AD Insurance

Employee Discounts

Job summary

AT&T is seeking a Principal Databricks Architect to define and drive the enterprise Databricks platform across Azure and AWS. You will oversee architecture, governance, and security, while enabling data engineering, analytics, and AI/ML workloads across production environments.

You will lead hands-on design decisions, configure services, optimize performance and cost, and collaborate with security teams and engineers to implement reusable patterns and CI/CD driven automation.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in Computer Science or related field preferred.
• 7+ years hands-on in production Databricks environments on Azure and AWS.
• Databricks and cloud certifications preferred, depending on role requirements.
• In-depth enterprise Databricks platform architecture and administration across cloud accounts/workspaces.

Responsibilities

• Define enterprise Databricks architecture, platform standards and roadmap across Azure and AWS.
• Design and administer Databricks accounts, workspaces, compute, SQL warehouses, and serverless features with security and governance.
• Establish governance with Unity Catalog including permissions, lineage, and data access patterns.
• Architect and administer Azure Data Lake Storage and storage containers with secure connectivity.
• Evaluate and support Databricks products including Delta Lake, Genie, Lakebase, and AI/ML workloads.
• Lead secure adoption of Genie and Lakebase across patterns and use cases.
• Hands-on troubleshooting, performance tuning, cost-optimization for serverless and compute configurations.
• Develop repeatable platform provisioning via IaC, APIs, automation, and CI/CD.
• Collaborate with Enterprise Architects, security and cloud infra teams to set reusable patterns.

Skills

Master's degree

7+ years experience

Databricks certs

Databricks platform architecture

Security governance

IaC CI/CD Python SQL

Genie Lakebase exp

Education

Master's degree in CS

Tools

Databricks

Azure

AWS

Unity Catalog

Azure Data Lake Storage

Genie

Lakebase

Job description

AT&T is seeking a Principal Databricks Architect to define and drive the enterprise Databricks platform across Azure and AWS. You will oversee architecture, governance, and security, while enabling data engineering, analytics, and AI/ML workloads across production environments.

You will lead hands-on design decisions, configure services, optimize performance and cost, and collaborate with security teams and engineers to implement reusable patterns and CI/CD driven automation.