Databricks Architect (Remote, US)

About V4C.ai V4C is a pure-play Databricks partner, and in under two years we have earned 850+ Databricks certifications across 325+ customers and been named Databricks' 2026 Partner of the Year (C&SI Emerging). As a Data Architect, you’ll own the target-state architecture for enterprise Lakehouse platforms across industries, working directly with customers and often Databricks' own field teams. Every technical hire here gets a certification roadmap built for them and taught in-house by Databricks-approved trainers, plus a dedicated Employee Success Manager whose only responsibility is your experience at V4C

The Role The Data Architect is the most senior technical voice on an engagement. You own the target-state architecture - how data moves, where it lands, how it’s governed, what it costs to run - and defend those decisions to customer architects and executives. Most of your work starts where a legacy estate is the constraint: Teradata, Informatica, Hadoop, or cloud sprawl nobody wants to own. You design the path to a Databricks Lakehouse, then stay close enough to the build that the design survives it.

Responsibilities

• Own the target-state Lakehouse architecture on enterprise engagements, including ingestion, storage, transformation, serving, and governance layers
• Lead architecture assessments of legacy estates and produce migration paths with sequencing, risk, and effort
• Define data modeling standards and Medallion layer conventions, and hold engineering teams to them across concurrent workstreams
• Set the Unity Catalog governance model: catalogs, schemas, access patterns, lineage, and audit posture
• Make and document platform trade-offs (compute sizing, storage format, streaming versus batch, build versus buy) with cost and performance reasoning a customer can take to their CFO
• Provide technical input into scoping and effort estimation on new engagements, including pre-sales discovery and proof-of-concept design
• Mentor senior engineers, review designs, and raise the architectural bar across the practice
• Produce reference architectures, diagrams, and internal accelerators that make the next engagement faster

Requirements

• 8+ years in data engineering/architecture or analytics platform development
• Demonstrated ownership of end-to-end architecture for at least two enterprise-scale data platforms, from design through production
• Deep experience migrating legacy data warehouses or ETL estates to a modern cloud platform (Teradata, Informatica, Hadoop, Netezza, or equivalent)
• Strong proficiency in Python and SQL; working knowledge of Apache Spark and distributed processing fundamentals
• Experience with data modeling across dimensional, normalized, and Lakehouse patterns, and the judgment to know when each applies
• Experience with CI/CD and DevOps practices for data platform deployment

Preferences

• Healthcare or life sciences experience preferred but not required
• Databricks Certified Data Engineer Professional or a Platform Architect
• Hands-on Databricks experience at scale: Unity Catalog, Delta Lake, Lakeflow, Asset Bundles
• Experience with MLOps or productionizing machine learning workloads
• Prior professional services, consulting, or customer-facing architecture background
• Experience contributing to pre-sales scoping or technical proposals

Benefits

• Unlimited PTO
• Health Care Plan (Medical, Dental & Vision)
• Retirement Plan (401k, IRA)
• Life Insurance (Basic, Voluntary & AD&D)
• Family Leave (Maternity, Paternity)
• Short Term & Long Term Disability
• Training & Development
• Work from Home 3 days per week