Solutions Architect

Overview

Longenecker & Associates (L&A), a Geosyntec Company, is a trusted partner enabling critical missions across the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) complex for more than 30 years. We contribute to DOE’s nuclear security and environmental remediation enterprise by providing the highest-caliber staff and experts. We are seeking a motivated Solutions Architect 4 to contribute to our mission supporting our work at
Los Alamos National Lab in Los Alamos, NM.

Geosyntec is an innovative, international engineering and consulting firm serving private and public-sector clients to address new ventures and complex problems involving our environment, natural resources, and civil infrastructure. Our engineers, scientists, technical and project employees serve our clients from offices across the world. Ranked by ENR as one of the top environmental engineering design firms, Geosyntec is internationally known for its technical leadership, broad experience, and exceptional client service.

We invest in our people. Each employee is unique, and your career at Geosyntec will be too. We offer competitive pay and benefits, and well-being programs to support you and your family.

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The Solutions Architect 4 is responsible for managing and ensuring timely completion of discrete technical project scope. This role manages technical requirements; defines and oversees project deliverables, budgets, schedules, and risks; while supporting and in most cases leads the project team in planning, tracking, and executing scope from initiation through turnover.

Duties include but are not limited to:

• 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 Fin Ops 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; and
• Evaluate emerging Databricks capabilities and recommend adoption strategies, including endpoint integrations with third parties as they evolve.

• 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.
• Due to federal contract security requirements, this position requires U.S. Citizenship.(required)
• Due to federal contract security requirements, candidates must be able to successfully pass a federal background…