Solutions Architect

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Solutions Architect 4 managing technical project scopes for critical missions at Los Alamos National Lab. Advise on Databricks architecture and manage project deliverables in federal contracts.

Posted 6/19/2026full-timeRemote • New Mexico • 🇺🇸 United StatesSeniorLeadWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

CloudCyber SecurityPythonSparkSQLUnity

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Manage and ensure timely completion of discrete technical project scope.
Manage technical requirements; define and oversee project deliverables, budgets, schedules, and risks.
Support and in most cases lead the project team in planning, tracking, and executing scope from initiation through turnover.
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.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Master’s Degree in a relevant field of study. (required)
At least 15 years of relevant experience or equivalent combination of education and experience. (required)
7+ 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.
Must be U.S. Citizen to meet federal contract security requirements (required)
Ability to successfully pass a federal background investigation to secure and maintain DOE Q security clearance (required)

Benefits

Comp & perks

Competitive pay and benefits
Well-being programs to support you and your family

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Hard Skills & Tools

DatabricksDelta LakeUnity CatalogSpark Structured StreamingLakeflowDatabricks SQLMLflowMosaic AIPythonSQL

Soft Skills

communicationmentoringproject managementleadership

Certifications

Master’s DegreeDOE Q security clearance