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Senior Technical Architect – Databricks

Own the technical architecture for a Databricks-native Lakehouse — setting design standards, governance and the platform direction the delivery team builds against.

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Practice

Data Engineering

Specialization

Data & AI Architecture (Databricks)

Location

Remote

Employment type

Full Time

Experience

6–9 Years

Role Overview

You will own the technical architecture for a Databricks-native project, setting the design standards, governance model and platform direction that the wider delivery team builds against. This is a design-and-decide role: you will define the Lakehouse architecture across Unity Catalog, Delta Lake, Lakeflow and Mosaic AI, make the calls on how GenAI and agentic capability get built on the platform, and defend those calls to client stakeholders. You will spend less time in a single notebook and more time making sure the platform holds up as the project scales. This role is for someone who already eats, sleeps and breathes Databricks and wants to shape how a client's entire Lakehouse gets built, not just contribute a model to it.

What You Will Do

  • Own the end-to-end technical architecture for a Databricks-native project, including data, ML and GenAI workloads
  • Define governance standards using Unity Catalog: access control, lineage, auditing and data classification
  • Design the Lakehouse architecture across Delta Lake, Lakeflow and Workflows, and set the patterns the delivery team builds against
  • Architect GenAI and agentic capability on Mosaic AI, including RAG, Vector Search and Model Serving design decisions
  • Set technical standards and review designs from data scientists and engineers working on the platform
  • Act as the primary technical authority for client stakeholders on platform and architecture decisions
  • Evaluate build-vs-buy and platform capability trade-offs, and defend them to technical and non-technical audiences
  • Partner with data engineering, data science and AI engineering leads to keep architecture consistent across workstreams

Technical Skills

  • Databricks Platform (Core): Deep, hands-on expertise across the Lakehouse — Unity Catalog, Delta Lake, Lakeflow and Workflows, at a level where you can architect it, not just use it.
  • Unity Catalog & Governance: Designing governance frameworks — access control models, lineage, auditing and data classification across catalogs, schemas and tables.
  • Delta Lake & Lakeflow: Architecting Delta Lake storage layers (ACID, time travel, schema evolution) and declarative ELT pipelines with Lakeflow at scale.
  • Workflows & Orchestration: Designing orchestration patterns with Databricks Workflows for multi-task pipelines, dependency management and monitoring across a platform.
  • Mosaic AI & GenAI/Agentic AI: Architecting RAG, Vector Search and Model Serving solutions on Mosaic AI, including evaluation and safety patterns for agentic systems.
  • Solution & Platform Architecture: Designing an end-to-end Lakehouse architecture for ambiguous, evolving requirements, and defending it to technical and client stakeholders.
  • Leadership & Delivery: Setting technical standards, reviewing designs across a team, and reporting architecture decisions and risk to technical and client audiences.

Experience & Qualifications

  • 6 to 9 years of data engineering, data science or platform experience, including significant time architecting solutions natively on Databricks
  • A track record of owning platform or solution architecture decisions that a delivery team built against, not only executing to a spec
  • Production experience across Unity Catalog, Delta Lake/Lakeflow, Workflows and Mosaic AI at an architectural level
  • Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Engineering or a related quantitative field

Good to Have

Not required, but a strong plus if your experience already includes any of the following.

  • Databricks certifications (Solutions Architect, Data Engineer Professional, or Generative AI Engineer)
  • Experience in a consulting or professional services environment, owning architecture conversations directly with clients
  • Experience with Databricks Asset Bundles and CI/CD for platform-wide deployments
  • Domain exposure to retail, consumer goods, manufacturing or supply chain

Why Xunova

Remote-first, built on trust

A genuinely remote-first team, built around trust and ownership rather than hours logged.

Direct access to leadership

Direct exposure to client leadership from day one, with no layers between you and the work that matters.

Ownership that shapes the work

A high-growth environment where your judgment shapes how we work, not just what we deliver.

Colleagues who hold a high bar

A small, deliberately high-caliber team that takes the craft seriously and holds a high bar for each other.

How we hire

A straightforward, three-conversation process, no take-home busywork disconnected from the job.

Remote · Full Time
  1. 01

    Introductory conversation

    A conversation about your experience, what you're looking for, and what we're building together.

  2. 02

    Technical discussion

    Grounded in real engineering problems, not abstract puzzles disconnected from the work.

  3. 03

    Team conversation

    Time with the team you'd actually be working with, in both directions.

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