Senior Databricks Solutions Architect for Data & ML

Artifintech; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 82,000 - 117,000; Full time

Job summary

Artifintech in San Francisco is seeking a Databricks Solution Architect to design and govern data and ML architectures on Databricks, aligning business needs with scalable technical solutions.

You will lead stakeholder discussions, craft reference architectures, and plan migrations from legacy systems while ensuring security, cost controls, and regulatory compliance across data platforms.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in data engineering or architecture, including 5+ years with Databricks.
• Strong expertise in Spark, Delta Lake, SQL, medallion architecture, and dimensional data modeling.
• Strong AWS architecture knowledge (networking, IAM, encryption, multi-account design).
• Experience with Unity Catalog, data security, governance, and PII/NPI protection.
• Proven migration of legacy Hadoop/Hive and warehouse workloads.
• Knowledge of Kafka, Spark Structured Streaming, batch processing, DR, and high availability.
• Experience with Databricks cost optimization and FinOps, stakeholder management, architecture documentation.

Responsibilities

• Define target-state architecture for data ingestion, medallion layers, data serving, and ML workloads on Databricks.
• Lead stakeholder discovery and translate requirements into designs, reference architectures, and roadmaps.
• Design marketing data solutions for identity resolution, segmentation, campaign measurement, and data sharing.
• Architect collections data solutions for delinquency monitoring, contact data, agency/vendor integrations, and regulatory compliance.
• Define batch and streaming patterns, AWS networking, IAM, multi-account architecture, high availability, and disaster recovery.
• Establish security and governance using Unity Catalog, PII/NPI protection, encryption, audit logging, and data lineage.
• Plan migration from legacy Hadoop, Hive, EMR, and data warehouse platforms.
• Develop Databricks cost and capacity models, FinOps controls, and platform investment business cases.
• Lead architecture reviews, vendor evaluations, proofs of concept, and architecture standards.

Skills

Stakeholder management

Architecture planning

Cost optimization

FinOps awareness

Data governance

Regulated finance

Marketing analytics

Customer 360

Consent management

Campaign analytics

Collections data

Dialer integrations

Databricks ML

MLflow

Feature stores

AWS certifications

Tools

Databricks

Apache Spark

Delta Lake

SQL

Unity Catalog

Kafka

Spark Structured Streaming

Multi-account AWS design

FinOps tooling

Job description

Artifintech in San Francisco is seeking a Databricks Solution Architect to design and govern data and ML architectures on Databricks, aligning business needs with scalable technical solutions.

You will lead stakeholder discussions, craft reference architectures, and plan migrations from legacy systems while ensuring security, cost controls, and regulatory compliance across data platforms.