Senior Databricks Solutions Architect: Data Platform Leader

Edgewater Federal Solutions, Inc.; United States; On-site; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Edgewater Federal Solutions is seeking a Solutions Architect 4 to support a major national laboratory. The role focuses on Databricks reference architecture, full-stack solution design, and data governance across multi-tier data platforms.

You will guide data movement strategies, platform migrations to Databricks, and security/compliance-as-code while collaborating with cyber security and analytics teams.

Qualifications

• 7+ years designing, building, and operating Databricks workloads with medallion layer architecture.
• Hands-on experience with Delta Lake, Unity Catalog, Spark Structured Streaming, Lakeflow (or DLT/Live Tables), Databricks SQL, MLflow, and Mosaic AI Model Serving.
• Strong experience in cloud architecture supporting the platform (VPC/VNet, Security, S3/ADLS, KMS, etc.).
• Proven experience migrating enterprise data workloads from legacy/on prem data warehouse/lake to Databricks.
• Production streaming and CDC experience.
• Depth in security and governance: Unity Catalog policies (ABAC), classification, encryption, access auditing, compliance-to-control translation.
• Hands-on experience designing multi-tier Databricks architectures driven by data classification requirements.
• Strong Python and SQL, Spark, Notebooks.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Advise on the Databricks reference architecture covering Lakeflow, Delta Lake, Unity Catalog Mosaic AI, Databricks SQL, and Databricks Apps.
• Provide hands-on guidance on Databricks full-stack solution design.
• Advise on design of both data movement (e.g. batch, real-time streaming) and zero-copy patterns.
• Guide platform migrations from legacy SQL and document stores onto Databricks and related cloud data platforms.
• Recommend security, governance, and compliance-as-code: Unity Catalog ABAC, governed tags, row filters/column masks, key management, networking security and compliance security profiles.
• Advise on design of segregated/tiered data pool architectures aligned to the organization's data classification policy and applicable regulatory requirements, including cross-tier data movement.
• Recommend FinOps and performance standards, workload and cost management.
• Mentor data engineers, analysts, and AI/ML teams participate in architecture reviews and contribute to standards.
• Work with information & cyber security, and other teams as needed for compliance to policies and standards.
• Evaluate emerging Databricks capabilities and recommend adoption strategies, including endpoint integrations with third parties as they evolve.

Skills

Databricks workloads

Delta Lake

Unity Catalog

Spark Structured Streaming

Lakeflow

Databricks SQL

MLflow

Mosaic AI Model Serving

Python

SQL

Notebooks

Verbal and written communication

Tools

Lakeflow (DLT/Live Tables)

Databricks SQL

MLflow

Mosaic AI

Job description

Edgewater Federal Solutions is seeking a Solutions Architect 4 to support a major national laboratory. The role focuses on Databricks reference architecture, full-stack solution design, and data governance across multi-tier data platforms.

You will guide data movement strategies, platform migrations to Databricks, and security/compliance-as-code while collaborating with cyber security and analytics teams.