SOLUTIONS ARCHITECT 4 – 3240 – LANL – Los Alamos, NM

OLH • Los Alamos, NM

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About The Position

OLH Inc. is hiring a Solutions Architect 4 for a position supporting LANL in Los Alamos, New Mexico. The role advises on Databricks architecture and hands-on solution design, including data movement, zero-copy patterns, platform migrations, security, governance, compliance, data classification, FinOps, and performance. The architect mentors data engineers, analysts, and AI/ML teams; participates in architecture reviews and standards development; collaborates with information and cybersecurity teams; and evaluates emerging Databricks capabilities and adoption strategies. U.S. citizenship is required.

Requirements

• Master’s degree.
• 20 years of experience 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, including VPC/VNet, security, S3/ADLS, and KMS.
• Proven experience migrating enterprise data workloads from legacy or on-premises data warehouses/lakes to Databricks.
• Production streaming and CDC experience.
• Depth in security and governance, including Unity Catalog policies (ABAC), classification, encryption, access auditing, and compliance-to-control translation.
• Hands-on experience designing multi-tier Databricks architectures driven by data classification requirements.
• Strong Python, SQL, Spark, and notebook skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• U.S. citizenship.

Nice To Haves

• Active Databricks certifications.
• Experience with GenAI and agent systems on Databricks.
• Experience with Delta Sharing and Databricks Clean Rooms for controlled, governed data exchange across organizational, cross-tier, or system boundaries.
• Familiarity with Oracle EBS and SAP enterprise data.
• Experience with SAP BDC/DataSphere and Databricks integration to SAP BDC, including zero-copy patterns.
• Experience with Lakeflow Designer, Databricks Apps, Genie, Databricks One, CI/CD, and infrastructure-as-code such as Terraform for data platforms.
• Experience designing, building, and supporting BI reporting layers.
• Data quality and data governance experience.
• Prior experience in regulated industries such as utilities, life sciences, or government services, and exposure to related frameworks such as FERC/NERC, HIPAA, GxP, GDPR, FedRAMP, or ITAR.

Responsibilities

• Advise on 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 data movement designs, including batch and real-time streaming, and zero-copy patterns.
• Guide migrations from legacy SQL and document stores to Databricks and related cloud data platforms.
• Recommend security, governance, and compliance-as-code approaches, including Unity Catalog ABAC, governed tags, row filters and column masks, key management, network security, and compliance security profiles.
• Advise on segregated or tiered data-pool architectures aligned with data classification policies and regulatory requirements, including cross-tier data movement.
• Recommend FinOps and performance standards, workload management, and cost management.
• Mentor data engineers, analysts, and AI/ML teams; participate in architecture reviews; and contribute to standards.
• Work with information and cybersecurity teams and other groups to support compliance with policies and standards.
• Evaluate emerging Databricks capabilities and recommend adoption strategies, including evolving third-party endpoint integrations.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior