Solutions Architect 4

COMPA Industries • Los Alamos, NM

8d • $100 - $110 • Remote

About The Position

We are recruiting on behalf of Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) for a Senior Databricks Solution Architect. This role provides hands-on architectural guidance across the full Databricks stack — advising on the reference architecture spanning Lakeflow, Delta Lake, Unity Catalog, Mosaic AI, Databricks SQL, and Databricks Apps — and helps shape solution design, data movement, governance, and platform migration strategy.
The architect partners closely with data engineering, analytics, AI/ML, and information and cyber security teams to ensure designs meet the organization’s data classification policy, security standards, and applicable regulatory requirements.

Requirements

• Seven or more years designing, building, and operating Databricks workloads with medallion-layer architecture, including hands-on experience across the Databricks platform and supporting cloud infrastructure.
• 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, and compliance-to-control translation.
• Hands-on experience designing multi-tier Databricks architectures driven by data classification requirements.
• Strong Python and SQL, Spark, and Notebooks.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Nice To Haves

• 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, and 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, and Databricks One.
• CI/CD and Infrastructure-as-Code (e.g., Terraform) for data platforms.
• Experience 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).

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.
• Advise on the design of both data movement (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, including Unity Catalog ABAC, governed tags, row filters and column masks, key management, networking security, and compliance security profiles.
• Advise on the 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, including workload and cost management.
• Mentor data engineers, analysts, and AI/ML teams; participate in architecture reviews and contribute to standards.
• Work with information and cyber security and other teams as needed to ensure compliance with policies and standards.
• Evaluate emerging Databricks capabilities and recommend adoption strategies, including endpoint integrations with third parties as they evolve.

Benefits

• competitive pay

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed