Solutions Architect 4

Visa Hunt; United States; On-site; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Longenecker & Associates (L&A), a Geosyntec Company, is seeking a Solutions Architect 4 to lead Databricks-based architecture at Los Alamos National Lab in Los Alamos, NM. The role focuses on data platforms, governance, and security, with a senior level of responsibility and cross‑functional mentoring.

You will guide migrations, optimize performance, and collaborate with cybersecurity, data engineers, and analysts to deliver compliant, scalable solutions in a federal environment.

Qualifications

• Master’s Degree in a relevant field (required).
• 15+ years of relevant experience or equivalent.
• 7+ years designing, building Databricks workloads with medallion architecture.
• Proven experience migrating enterprise data workloads to Databricks.

Responsibilities

• Advise on Databricks reference architecture and full-stack solution design.
• Oversee data movement and zero-copy patterns.
• Guide migrations from legacy systems to Databricks and cloud data platforms.
• Mentor data engineers, analysts, and AI/ML teams in architecture reviews.

Skills

Databricks

Python

SQL

Spark

Security governance

Cloud architecture

Communication

Education

Master’s Degree in a relevant field

Tools

Lakeflow

Terraform

Job description

Overview

Longenecker & Associates (L&A), a Geosyntec Company, is a trusted partner enabling critical missions across the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) complex for more than 30 years. We contribute to DOE’s nuclear security and environmental remediation enterprise by providing the highest-caliber staff and experts. We are seeking a motivated Solutions Architect 4 to contribute to our mission supporting our work at Los Alamos National Lab in Los Alamos, NM.

Geosyntec is an innovative, international engineering and consulting firm serving private and public-sector clients to address new ventures and complex problems involving our environment, natural resources, and civil infrastructure. Our engineers, scientists, technical and project employees serve our clients from offices across the world. Ranked by ENR as one of the top environmental engineering design firms, Geosyntec is internationally known for its technical leadership, broad experience, and exceptional client service.

We invest in our people. Each employee is unique, and your career at Geosyntec will be too. We offer competitive pay and benefits, and well-being programs to support you and your family.

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Essential Duties and Responsibilities

The Solutions Architect 4 is responsible for managing and ensuring timely completion of discrete technical project scope. This role manages technical requirements; defines and oversees project deliverables, budgets, schedules, and risks; while supporting and in most cases leads the project team in planning, tracking, and executing scope from initiation through turnover.

Duties include but are not limited to:

• 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; and
• Evaluate emerging Databricks capabilities and recommend adoption strategies, including endpoint integrations with third parties as they evolve.

Education and Licensure

• Master’s Degree in a relevant field of study. (required)

Skills, Experience and Qualifications

• At least 15 years of relevant experience or equivalent combination of education and experience. (required)
• 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.
• Due to federal contract security requirements, this position requires U.S. Citizenship. (required)
• Due to federal contract security requirements, candidates must be able to successfully pass a federal background investigation to secure and maintain DOE Q security clearance. (required)
• Health & Safety training, medical monitoring, and client‑driven drug and background testing. (required)

Please note that marijuana remains a Schedule III controlled substance under Federal Law. Federal contractors must follow Federal drug‑free workplace rules, which prohibit marijuana use, even if medical or recreational use is permitted under State Law.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS & LOCATION DETAILS:

• Active Databricks certifications.
• GenAI and agent systems on Databricks experience.
• Delta Sharing and Databricks Clean Rooms for controlled governed data exchange across organizational/cross-tier/system boundaries.
• Familiarity with Oracle EBS and SAP enterprise data.
• Experience with SAP BDC/DataSphere and Databricks integration to SAP BDC, with zero‑copy patterns.
• Lakeflow Designer, Databricks Apps, Genie, Databricks One.
• CI/CD, Infrastructure‑as‑Code (e.g., Terraform) for data platforms.
• Experience in designing, building, and supporting BI reporting layers.
• Data Quality and Data Governance experience.
• Prior experience in regulated industries (e.g., utilities, life sciences, government services) and exposure to related frameworks (e.g. FERC/NERC, HIPAA, GxP, GDPR, FedRAMP, ITAR, etc.)
• Anticipated Work Schedule: 4/10 also adjusted to align with field install work schedule.
• 100% Remote.