Solutions Architect 4

Spectra Tech is seeking a Solutions Architect 4 for Los Alamos, NM. 

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 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.  
•    Advise 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

Required:

•    MS, 20 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

Nice to Have:
•    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
•    CI/CD, Infrastructure-as-Code (e.g. Terraform) for data platforms
•    Experience in designing, building, 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.)