Job Title: Databricks Architect
Location: Bolingbrook, IL (Remote ok)
Duration: 12 Months
No. of position: 1
Rate: $55/hr W2
Role Summary: The Databricks Architect is responsible for designing, implementing, and governing enterprise-scale data platforms on Databricks. The role focuses on data architecture, cloud integration, data engineering best practices, analytics enablement, and platform optimization across Azure, AWS, or GCP environments.
Responsibilities
" Design and implement scalable data lakehouse architectures using Databricks.
" Define enterprise data models, governance standards, and security controls.
" Lead migration of legacy data warehouses and ETL workloads to Databricks.
" Architect batch and real-time data processing solutions using Spark.
" Optimize performance, scalability, reliability, and cost efficiency.
" Collaborate with business stakeholders, data engineers, data scientists, and cloud architects.
" Establish CI/CD, monitoring, and operational best practices for data platforms.
" Provide technical leadership and mentor engineering teams.
Required Skills
" 8+ years of data engineering and data platform experience.
" 3+ years of hands-on Databricks architecture experience.
" Strong expertise in Apache Spark, PySpark, SQL, and Delta Lake.
" Experience with Azure Databricks, AWS Databricks, or GCP Databricks.
" Strong expertise in streaming platforms: GCP Pub/Sub, Azure Event Hubs, AWS Kinesis, Apache Kafka
" Hands-on experience with producer/consumer architecture decisions and trade-offs.
" Knowledge of data lakehouse architecture and data governance.
" Experience with data integration tools and orchestration frameworks.
" Strong understanding of security, access management, and compliance requirements.
Preferred Skills
" Databricks Certified Data Engineer Professional or equivalent.
" Experience with Unity Catalog, Delta Live Tables, and Databricks Workflows.
" Experience with Power BI, Tableau, or other BI platforms.
" Knowledge of DataOps, DevOps, and MLOps practices.
Education
" Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field.
" Master's degree preferred.