Databricks Architect
About the role
Your Next Career Move Starts Here! The Role: Databricks Architect. Location: Houston, TX - onsite 5 days/week. Type: Long term contract.
The Databricks Architect reviews the current Databricks environment, including workspace structure, catalogs, permissions, compute patterns, storage, and cost. This role designs the lakehouse architecture, including raw, cleaned, curated, and serving layers, plus a feature layer for models, and defines the Unity Catalog model, including catalogs and schemas, managed versus external tables, external locations, row filters, and column masks.
Founded in 1997, Golden Technology has grown from a two-person vision into a trusted partner for Fortune 500 clients nationwide. Along the way, we've built a culture centered on family, professional growth, and giving back to our communities through our Golden Community initiatives. Here's what sets us apart: Family-first culture that values balance and support. Career development through mentorship, opportunities, and investment in our people. Community impact by dedicating time, talent, and resources to the places we live and work.
Responsibilities
- Deciding workspace and catalog boundaries between environments and data domains
- Choosing the ingestion approach, including incremental file loads, streaming, declarative pipelines, change data capture, and federated access
- Defining naming, ownership, lineage, and access-granting conventions
- Building the compute and cost model, including cluster and warehouse types, policies, tagging, and spend forecasting
- Setting up delivery and environment promotion through project bundles, source control, and catalog parameterization
- Producing architecture decision records and diagrams and leading reviews
Benefits
- Exciting opportunities with innovative companies
- Guidance from a recruiting team with decades of experience
- A professional, supportive culture built on trust and collaboration