Senior Data Architect - Databricks Platform

Required Technical Qualifications

Caylent is an AI-first cloud services company that helps organizations turn ambitious ideas into meaningful business impact. As an AWS Premier Tier Services Partner and a charter member of Anthropic’s Claude Partner Network, we combine deep expertise in AWS, artificial intelligence, and Anthropic’s Claude platform to help customers modernize their technology, build intelligent products, and move AI from experimentation into production.

Our capabilities span generative and agentic AI, cloud migration and modernization, cloud-native application development, data and analytics, Dev Ops, managed services, security and compliance, and customer experience transformation. At Caylent, our people always come first.

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Architect responsible for designing and hardening enterprise-scale Databricks data platforms within client engagements — building the guardrails, automation, and standards that let a growing number of business teams safely build on the platform without it collapsing into unmanaged "click-ops".

Architects maintain primary depth in one core area (Data Platform Development or Data Migration & Modernization) while maintaining architectural awareness across both. Databricks depth is expected regardless of focus area.

• Lead architectural design for Databricks-based data platforms or modernization programs, including workspace consolidation, permissioning/persona models, and configuration-as-code patterns
• Databrick platform designs align with AWS leading-practice architecture patterns (as we are AWS centric)
• Design of high-volume batch and real-time streaming pipelines leveraging PySpark and Structured Streaming (aka Apache Spark)
• Design and integration of Databrick Unity catalog with third party metadata repositories (e.g., AWS Glue Catalog, Snowflake Horizon)
• Design and implement automation (Config Ops), CI/CD, and guardrail patterns that let business teams safely extend the platform without compromising governance
• Build and maintain certified data products, a semantic layer, and lineage/metadata exposure so the platform can support both self-service and, eventually, agent-driven use cases
• Ensure technical viability, scalability, and production readiness of platform components
• Communicate architectural decisions and trade-offs clearly to both technical and business stakeholders; produce architectural documentation, assessments, and roadmaps
• Partner with client business and engineering teams to understand upstream use-case needs and translate them into platform capabilities and guardrails, rather than working from requirements handed down secondhand

• End-to-end modern data platform architecture design (lakehouse, ingestion, processing, access layers)
• Hands-on Databricks experience: workspace/persona architecture, Unity Catalog, lakehouse patterns, job orchestration, and native governance tooling (governed data platform patterns, lineage, access controls and maintaining business, technical and compliance metadata), tune and optimize Spark configurations, clusters and Delta Lake storage
• Experience architecting scalable cloud-native systems (AWS)
• Advanced distributed processing and streaming architectures
• Platform security, networking, and automation
• Cost estimation and performance optimization

• Leading multi-database migration and modernization initiatives, including onto Databricks
• Deep expertise in OLTP/OLAP system design and schema evolution
• Advanced performance tuning, HA/DR, and security patterns
• Cloud-native database architecture across managed services
• Migration strategy, cutover planning, and risk mitigation

• Architecture documentation and standards enforcement
• IaC and automation strategy (Terraform)
• Fin Ops-aligned design, including ability to audit…