Databricks Architect -Happiest Minds - Bangalore | Chennai/Pune

Job description

**Data Architect / Senior Data Architect (1016 years)** - **Role Overview** Platform/solution architect for enterprise lakehouse programs: governance, security, lineage, cost/performance guardrails and platform standards. - **Core Responsibilities** - Own target-state lakehouse architecture: metastores, Unity Catalog topology, workspace strategy, governed sharing, lineage. - Define platform standards for DLT/Workflows, streaming, CDC/SCDs, data contracts, and schema strategy. - Establish cluster policies, pools, autoscaling, Photon adoption, cost guardrails & FinOps dashboards at org level. - Lead modernization (legacy DW/ETL Databricks) with migration patterns, parallel run, and cutover. - Set DataOps & observability standards: CI/CD, test suites, SLIs/SLOs, reliability scorecards; security/privacy posture. - **Must-have Skills (Screening Focus)** - Expert Spark/Delta internals; large-scale performance engineering and cost governance. - Unity Catalog governance (RBAC/ABAC), row/column security; audit & compliance readiness. - Estate-wide DLT/Workflows standards; migration playbooks; ADRs & platform blueprints. - **Nice-to-have (Prefer, not Mandatory)** - Delta Sharing, Marketplace, Lakehouse Federation; Model Serving/Vector Search awareness.