Role Overview
Platform/solution architect for enterprise lakehouse programs: governance, security, lineage, cost/performance guardrails and platform standards.
Core Responsibilities
Own target-state lakehouse architecture: metastores, Unity Catalog topology, workspace strategy, governed sharing, lineage.
Define platform standards for DLT/Workflows, streaming, CDC/SCDs, data contracts, and schema strategy.
Establish cluster policies, pools, autoscaling, Photon adoption, cost guardrails & FinOps dashboards at org level.
Lead modernization (legacy DW/ETL Databricks) with migration patterns, parallel run, and cutover.
Set DataOps & observability standards: CI/CD, test suites, SLIs/SLOs, reliability scorecards; security/privacy posture.
Must-have Skills (Screening Focus)
Expert Spark/Delta internals; large-scale performance engineering and cost governance.
Unity Catalog governance (RBAC/ABAC), row/column security; audit & compliance readiness.
Estate-wide DLT/Workflows standards; migration playbooks; ADRs & platform blueprints.
Nice-to-have (Prefer, not Mandatory)
Delta Sharing, Marketplace, Lakehouse Federation; Model Serving/Vector Search awareness.
Multi-cloud architecture; FinOps maturity.

📌 Data Architect Databricks Bengaluru
🏢 Happiest Minds Technologies
📍 Bengaluru