Solutions Architect 4

Spectra Tech is seeking a Solutions Architect 4 for Los Alamos, NM. Responsibilities: * Advise on the Databricks reference architecture covering Lakeflow, Delta Lake, Unity Catalog Mosaic AI, Databricks SQL, and Databricks Apps * Provide hands-on guidance on Databricks full-stack solution design * Advise on design of both data movement (e.g. batch, real-time streaming) and zero-copy patterns * Guide platform migrations from legacy SQL and document stores onto Databricks and related cloud data platforms * Recommend security, governance, and compliance-as-code: Unity Catalog ABAC, governed tags, row filters/column masks, key management, networking security and compliance security profiles. * Advise on design of segregated/tiered data pool architectures aligned to the organization's data classification policy and applicable regulatory requirements, including cross-tier data movement * Recommend FinOps and performance standards, workload and cost management * Mentor data engineers, analysts, and AI/ML teams participate in architecture reviews and contribute to standards * Work with information & cyber security, and other teams as needed for compliance to policies and standards * Evaluate emerging Databricks capabilities and recommend adoption strategies, including endpoint integrations with third parties as they evolve Required: * MS, 20 years designing, building, and operating Databricks workloads with medallion layer architecture * Hands-on experience with Delta Lake, Unity Catalog,, Spark Structured Streaming, Lakeflow (or DLT/Live Tables), Databricks SQL, MLflow, and Mosaic AI Model Serving * Strong experience in cloud architecture supporting the platform (VPC/VNet, Security, S3/ADLS, KMS, etc.) * Proven experience migrating enterprise data workloads from legacy/on prem data warehouse/lake to Databricks * Production streaming and CDC experience * Depth in security and governance: Unity Catalog policies (ABAC), classification, encryption, access auditing, compliance-to-control translation * Hands-on experience designing multi-tier Databricks architectures driven by data classification requirements * Strong Python and SQL, Spark, Notebooks * Excellent verbal and written communication skills Nice to Have: * Active Databricks certifications * GenAI and agent systems on Databricks experience * Delta Sharing and Databricks Clean Rooms for controlled, governed data exchange across organizational/cross-tier/system boundaries * Familiarity with Oracle EBS and SAP enterprise data * Experience with SAP BDC/DataSphere and Databricks integration to SAP BDC, with zero-copy patterns * Lakeflow Designer, Databricks Apps, Genie, Databricks One * CI/CD, Infrastructure-as-Code (e.g. Terraform) for data platforms * Experience in designing, building, supporting BI reporting layers * Data Quality and Data Governance experience * Prior experience in regulated industries (e.g. utilities, life sciences, government services) and exposure to related frameworks (e.g. FERC/NERC, HIPAA, GxP, GDPR, FedRAMP, ITAR, etc.)