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Lead Data Architect - Databricks

Judge Group, Inc.
Arlington, VA Contractor
POSTED ON 11/10/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 12/10/2026
Location: Arlington, VA Salary: $85.00 USD Hourly - $95.00 USD Hourly Description: The Judge Group is currently seeking a Lead Data Architect - Databricks to support a newly awarded contract supporting a large healthcare agency. This is a hybrid position.

W2 only, no third parties.

What You Will Do

  • Serve as deputy to the Data Workstream Lead and lead day-to-day technical architecture decisions.
  • Define the secure Databricks lakehouse architecture, environments, workspaces, storage patterns, identity and access considerations, and Unity Catalog structure.
  • Define canonical HR data models, domain boundaries, curated layers, semantic approaches, and reusable data-product standards.
  • Establish DataOps, ingestion, transformation, orchestration, integration, API, and other consumption patterns.
  • Develop the migration architecture, source-to-target design standards, metadata and lineage approach, and data-contract framework.
  • Define architecture standards for security, privacy, quality, observability, performance, testing, deployment, and supportability.
  • Review detailed models, mappings, pipelines, interfaces, and data products for conformance with the target architecture.
  • Facilitate architecture decisions and communicate tradeoffs to technical teams, business stakeholders, and leadership.
  • Mentor architects and engineers and provide technical quality assurance across Prepare, Stabilize, and Operationalize.


What You Will Need

  • Bachelor's degree in computer science, data engineering, information systems, engineering, or a related field.
  • Minimum 8 years of experience in enterprise data architecture, data engineering, cloud platforms, or analytics modernization.
  • Demonstrated experience architecting Databricks lakehouse solutions and Unity Catalog security and governance structures.
  • Strong knowledge of dimensional, relational, canonical, and data-product modeling patterns.
  • Experience with ingestion, API, integration, orchestration, metadata, lineage, data contracts, quality, and DataOps patterns.
  • Experience designing migration architectures and guiding source-to-target mapping and conversion decisions.
  • Ability to lead technical teams and communicate architecture decisions to executive and non-technical audiences.


What Would Be Nice To Have

  • Databricks Data Engineer Professional, Databricks Architect, or equivalent certification.
  • Experience with HR, workforce, ERP, or financial data models.
  • Experience with Azure, AWS, or cloud networking and security patterns.
  • Experience supporting public-sector data modernization.


Medical, dental, and vision insurance are available to qualified candidates who meet eligibility requirements.
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