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We are currently seeking a Lead Databricks Solutions Architect. This is a 100% remote role — but they want candidates local to the DMV area (DC Metro, Maryland, Northern Virginia) so they can come in for quarterly workshop meetings.
maintain a DHS Entry on Duty (EOD)/Public Trust.
Role Overview:
We are seeking a Databricks Solutions Architect to lead the design, implementation, and long-term operation of Databricks within a complex Government enterprise environment. This role will work closely with various stakeholders during initial implementation and will transition into owning architectural decisions, best practices, and platform evolution as Databricks is rolled out within the environment.
The ideal candidate will bring strong Databricks and AWS experience, familiarity with architecting solutions for scale and governance, and is comfortable integrating Databricks with other data platforms.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead the architecture, implementation, and long-term operation of Databricks on AWS in an enterprise environment.
- Build and productionize solutions for federal customers using Databricks.
- Provide unification for organization and enterprise data capabilities to break down organizational data and operational silos, including mechanisms to standardize and migrate existing data to a unified data plane/warehouse.
- Support the integration of Databricks with existing analytics platforms and metadata solutions.
- Serve as a technical advisor to stakeholders and help upskill internal teams through guidance/documentation.
- Assist and develop customer use case applications of Databricks.
- Provide input on onboarding federal customers new to Databricks.
Required Skills:
- Ability to successfully maintain a DHS Entry on Duty (EOD)/Public Trust.
- Minimum 7 years of hands-on experience architecting, designing, and data engineering with Databricks and AWS in a government setting.
- Strong understanding and experience in areas such as Apache Spark, Lakebase, Lakehouse architectures, Delta Lake, Delta Sharing, Medallion Architecture, Data & AI Governance, and use case acceleration.
- Working knowledge of both AWS and Azure ecosystems with demonstrated hands-on experience with cloud-native data and ETL capabilities (S3, Lambdas, Glue, etc.).
- Experience with Unity Catalog and MLflow within Databricks.
- Experience with agentic AI tools such as Databricks' Genie and Agent Bricks.
- Demonstrated experience leveraging data to provide search, enrichment, correlation, AI/ML Model Training, in alignment with government mission and business use cases.
- Experience integrating Databricks with other analytics platforms.
- Prior consulting or customer-facing experience in data architecture or modernization initiatives.
- Strong Python skills.
- Experience in Agile environments and managing cross-functional technical delivery.
- Experience supporting federal customers and federal platforms (e.g., knowledge of GovCloud, FISMA, etc.).
- Familiarity with CI/CD.
- At least 1 Databricks certification (Associate or Professional Data Engineer certifications preferred).
Desired Skills:
- Prior experience supporting DHS.
- Experience with the DHS System Engineering Lifecycle (SELC) .
- Familiarity with the concepts of a data mesh.
- AWS Solutions Architect Associate or Professional certification.
- Azure Associate certifications (AZ-204, DP-203).
- Familiarity with Databricks Apps.
- Experience building reference architectures, playbooks, or platform documentation.
- Experience with metadata platforms (e.g., DataHub, Collibra) and integrating Databricks with them.
- Prior experience as a Databricks Resident Solutions Architect/Forward Deployed Engineer.
Why This Role:
This is a high-impact architecture role in a federal enterprise environment. You'll lead the Databricks rollout, own architectural decisions, and shape how the platform evolves — while working with stakeholders to break down data silos and unify enterprise data capabilities. The 100% remote flexibility with quarterly DMV workshops offers a strong balance of autonomy and collaboration.
If you're a Databricks Solutions Architect with federal and AWS experience looking for a leadership role, I'd love to connect!
Pay: $80.00 - $90.00 per hour
Work Location: Hybrid remote in Washington, DC 20591
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