Databricks Lead / Architect
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Job Title: Databricks Lead / Architect
Experience: 8โ12 Years
Location: Dearborn, Michigan, United States
Job Summary:
Azure Databricks Data Architect in manufacturing, with strong Databricks/Azure engineering depth plus architecture and governance skills, backed by Azure and Databricks credentials.
Core technical skills:
- Advanced Apache Spark and PySpark/Scala for large-scale data processing, including performance tuning with Spark UI, partitioning, joins, caching, and shuffle optimization.
- Deep Databricks platform expertise: notebooks, jobs/workflows, cluster configuration, Databricks SQL, and applying Medallion (Bronze/Silver/Gold) architecture patterns.
- Delta Lake: ACID transactions, schema enforcement and evolution, MERGE operations, time travel, and design of performant Delta tables for lakehouse use cases.
- Unity Catalog and governance: catalogs/schemas/tables, permission models, data lineage, and secure access patterns across workspaces and domains.
- Strong SQL for data modeling, complex transformations, aggregates, and BIโready structures in a lakehouse context.
- Azure platform skills: Azure Data Lake Storage, Azure Data Factory (or Synapse pipelines), Event Hubs/IoT, networking, identity and access, Key Vault, and monitoring.
- Data modeling and warehousing: dimensional modeling, star/snowflake schemas, and performance-oriented design for analytics and reporting.
- CI/CD and DevOps for data: Git-based workflows, automated testing, and deployment using Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions for Databricks pipelines and artifacts.
Recommended certifications and accreditations:
- Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert or Azure Data Engineer Associate
- Databricks certifications Data Engineer Associate/Professional, Hadoop Migration Architect
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