
Databricks Platform Architect
Minor Hotels Europe and Americas
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Atlanta • United States
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Salary
💰 $119,392 - $177,320 per year
About the role
- Lead workshops with technical stakeholders to gather requirements and translate them into a comprehensive Databricks Lakehouse architecture
- Leverage Photon execution engine to accelerate SQL-based transformations, queries, and high-performance ELT pipelines
- Tune SQL and Spark jobs for optimal performance
- Improve pipeline performance and cost efficiency through Photon-optimized SQL workloads
- Align workloads to the appropriate Databricks compute types (SQL Warehouses, Photon, All-Purpose Clusters) to balance performance, concurrency, and cost
Requirements
- Proven track record of designing and deploying large scale data platforms on Azure and Databricks
- Strong understanding of data modeling (star/snowflake schemas), ELT/ETL patterns, and data governance
- Excellent communication skills: ability to lead technical discussions and present to executive stakeholders
- Good Understanding of the DBT based ETL processing
- Databricks Certified Data Engineer Associate (or higher)
- Databricks Certified Data Architect Professional (preferred)
- Certification in at least one major cloud provider (AWS/Azure/GCP)
Benefits
- Paid time off based on employee grade (A-F), defined by policy: Vacation: 12-25 days, depending on grade
- Company paid holidays
- Personal Days
- Sick Leave
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage (or provincial healthcare coordination in Canada)
- Retirement savings plans (e.g., 401(k) in the U.S., RRSP in Canada)
- Life and disability insurance
- Employee assistance programs
- Other benefits as provided by local policy and eligibility
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Hard Skills & Tools
SQLSparkDatabricks Lakehouse architecturePhoton execution engineELT pipelinesdata modelingDBTETL processingperformance tuning
Soft Skills
communication skillsleadershiptechnical discussionspresentation skills
Certifications
Databricks Certified Data Engineer AssociateDatabricks Certified Data Architect ProfessionalAWS certificationAzure certificationGCP certification