Solutions Architect 4
Geosyntec Consultants · Los Alamos, NM · 5 days ago
RemoteRemoteScienceFull-time
Essential Duties And 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
- Advises 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
- Advises 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
Education and Licensure
- Master’s Degree in a relevant field of study.
Skills, Experience And Qualifications
- At least 15 years of relevant experience or equivalent combination of education and experience.
- 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.
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.
- CICD, 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
- 100% Remote.