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Platform Architect - DPaaS: 26-03051
Akraya, Inc.
- 🇺🇸 United States
- On-site
- 1 day ago
- Databricks
- Unity Catalog
- PySpark
- Scala
- Adobe
- Devops
- SAP
- HANA
- Data Architecture
- Delta Lake
- SQL
- Azure
- AWS Cloud
- CI/CD
- Airflow
- Azure DevOps
- ERP
1 day ago
Contract Type:Â W2
Duration: 6+ Months Â
Location: San Jose, CA (#LI-Hyrid)
Pay Range: $85-$90/hr. on W2
Job Summary:
Contract Platform Architect for Adobe Unified Platform (AUP) – Data Platform-as-a-Service (DPaaS), supporting a Databricks-based enterprise data platform during a temporary parental-leave backfill. The architect will provide technical leadership and architectural continuity, support the SQL Server-to-Databricks migration, enforce data platform governance, troubleshoot architecture issues, and partner with DevOps, DataOps, and platform teams. This is a fixed-term contractor role requiring someone who can quickly ramp up in an existing enterprise environment and document decisions for a smooth handoff.
Key Responsibilities:
- Serve as the primary architecture point of contact for theDatabricks + Unity Catalog DPaaS platform during the coverage period.
- Support and unblock theSQL Server-to-Databricks/lakehouse migration, including alignment with the SAP HANA/RISE migration timeline.
- Review and advise ondata schemas, pipelines, compute architecture, and platform design.
- Enforce Databricks governance standards covering:
- Duplicate-data prevention
- Environment segregation
- Compute selection
- Engineering standards
- Cost visibility
- Identify and prevent data architecture anti-patterns and unnecessary data duplication.
- Partner withDevOps, DataOps, and platform support teams to keep architecture-dependent initiatives moving.
- Provide recommendations on platform decisions such asBI tooling and compute tiers.
- Troubleshoot production-scale data platform, Spark, Delta Lake, SQL, and pipeline issues.
- Document architectural decisions, rationale, open issues, and recommendations for handoff to the returning architect.
- StrongData/Platform Architecture experience withDatabricks at enterprise scale.
- Hands-on experience withDatabricks and Unity Catalog governance.
- Strong experience withdata platform migrations, preferably SQL Server to Databricks/lakehouse.
- Hands-onSpark experience usingPySpark or Scala.
- StrongDelta Lake experience, including pipeline design, performance tuning, and troubleshooting.
- AdvancedSQL, including query optimization and schema design across multi-schema/multi-workspace environments.
- Strong understanding ofdata governance, access controls, lineage, metadata management, auditability, and least-privilege design.
- Understanding ofDatabricks compute and cost management, including cluster sizing, job vs. all-purpose compute, and autoscaling.
- Experience withAzure or AWS cloud infrastructure supporting Databricks, including networking, storage, and access control.
- Experience with data pipeline orchestration/CI-CD tools such asDatabricks Workflows/Jobs, Airflow, Azure DevOps, or similar.
- Experience integrating or migratingERP-related systems such as SAP/HANA into a lakehouse environment.
- Strong written communication and documentation skills.
- Ability to quickly understand and take ownership of anin-flight enterprise data platform.
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Platform Architect - DPaaS: 26-03051 · Akraya, Inc.