iO Associates
Databricks Champion Architect
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We're hiring a Databricks Champion Architect to define and govern our modern lakehouse architecture. You'll blend solution design, hands-on technical leadership, and platform enablement; setting patterns, accelerating delivery teams, and ensuring production-ready engineering on a contract basis.
What you'll do
- Own end-to-end Databricks architecture across ingestion, transformation, governance, serving, and operations.
- Set Medallion Architecture standards—Bronze/Silver/Gold, SCD/CDC, data quality, retention, performance.
- Architect modern ingestion using AutoLoader, Lakeflow Connect, batch/streaming/CDC.
- Lead Unity Catalog governance—namespace strategy, access models, lineage, secure-by-design patterns.
- Define DLT with Expectations—quality rules, quarantine, observability.
- Drive production-ready engineering—CI/CD, environments, monitoring, runbooks.
- Align with security, EA, governance, platform, and delivery teams.
- Enable squads with playbooks, templates, ADRs, coaching.
- Support pre-sales and roadmap—HLDs, estimation, risks, proposals.
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What you'll bring
Minimum
- 2+ years recent hands-on Databricks experience using modern features.
- Clear evidence of architecture ownership.
Must Have
- Two active Databricks certifications (e.g. Data Engineer, ML, GenAI Engineer).
- Proven Medallion Architecture design.
- Unity Catalog architecture experience.
- DLT with Expectations implementation.
- Modern ingestion with AutoLoader/Lakeflow Connect.
- Ability to articulate recent Databricks feature usage.
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Should Have
- Strong Delta Lake performance skills—MERGE/CDC, partitioning, OPTIMIZE/ZORDER, VACUUM.
- Mature production architecture—Workflows, secrets, testing, observability.
- Cloud integration (Azure/AWS/GCP).
- Ability to standardise and influence across teams.
Nice to Have
- Lakeflow connectors, RBAC/masking, GenAI (Mosaic AI, Vector Search, RAG), Lakebase.
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