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Job Title: Data & AI Solution Architect Databricks
Location: NY/NJ/PA
Work mode: Hybrid (3 days onsite must)
Duration: FTE
Job Description
This is a Senior role with Hand-on experience at the intersection of distributed data engineering, open lakehouse architecture, and production AI. You will own the Databricks Data Intelligence Platform strategy designing unified lakehouse architectures across data engineering, analytics, ML, and agentic AI workloads. You will translate complex enterprise data challenges into scalable, governed, and cost-efficient Databricks solutions while influencing technical direction at the executive level and building trusted advisor relationships with engineering and data science leadership.
Key Responsibilities are:
- Strategic planning and hands-on engineering of Snowflake/Big Data and cloud environments that supports our clients advanced analytics and data science initiatives.
- Provide support in defining the scope and sizing of work
- Working closely with various enterprise architects Information security teams, Data management team, to ensure the architected solution meets all the needs of a customer, from a functionality perspective and IT solution engineering perspective.
- Lead designing all aspects of our data solution including artifact creation such as diagrams, playbooks and other technical documents.
- Translate business requirements into technology solutions
- Mentor and guide Jr. team members to deliver the solutions on time.
- Create various architecture blueprints and work with the development team to deliver the vision.
Skills & Experience:
- Overall, 10-15 years of experience in Solution Architecture, Data Management, Data Lake and Lakehouse design and development.
- Databricks (expert): Delta Lake, Unity Catalog, Lakeflow / Delta Live Tables, Databricks SQL, Photon, Serverless, Auto Loader, Databricks Apps, Vector Search
- Apache Spark (expert): PySpark and Scala; internals DAG execution, shuffle optimisation, memory tuning, adaptive query execution, Structured Streaming
- AI / ML stack (advanced): MLflow (tracking, registry, serving, tracing), Feature Store, Model Serving, AutoML; production ML lifecycle end-to-end
- GenAI & agents (proficient): RAG pipeline design, Databricks Agent Bricks and Agent Framework, Vector Search, LangChain, MLflow agent tracing, LLM integration (Claude, GPT)
- Data engineering (advanced): dbt on Databricks, Lakeflow Jobs, Kafka / Structured Streaming, Fivetran, Airbyte batch and real-time ingestion at enterprise scale
- Cloud (advanced in one, working in others): AWS (S3, Glue, EMR, Step Functions), Azure (ADLS Gen2, ADF, Event Hubs), Google Cloud Platform (GCS, Dataflow, BigQuery)
- Data modelling (advanced): Medallion architecture (Bronze / Silver / Gold), data vault 2.0, Kimball dimensional; open table formats (Delta Lake, Apache Iceberg, Apache Hudi)
- Security & governance: Unity Catalog RBAC, column masking, row-level security, audit logs, private endpoints, SOX / GDPR / HIPAA compliance patterns
- DevOps & IaC: Git, CI/CD for Databricks (Databricks Asset Bundles, GitHub Actions), Terraform Databricks provider, Databricks CLI
- Orchestration: Lakeflow Jobs, Apache Airflow with Databricks operator, Prefect dependency management, multi-task job design, retry and alerting patterns
Equal Opportunities Employer:
Hexaware Technologies is an equal opportunity employer. We are dedicated to providing a work environment free from discrimination and harassment. All employment decisions at Hexaware are based on business needs, job requirements, and individual qualifications. We do not discriminate based on race including colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, sex, age, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, parental status, gender reassignment, or any other status protected by law. We encourage candidates of all backgrounds to apply.
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