HMG AMERICA LLC · 22 hours ago
Data Architect
HMG AMERICA LLC is seeking a Sr. Databricks Lead/Architect to engage with customer stakeholders and lead the design of scalable data architectures using Azure Databricks. The role involves defining integration patterns, ensuring solutions align with best practices, and providing technical leadership throughout the project lifecycle.
Responsibilities
Act as the primary technical point of contact for customer stakeholders (Business, Product Owners, Architects, and IT Leadership)
Lead requirements discovery workshops, solution discussions, and architecture reviews
Translate business requirements into scalable Azure Databricks based data architectures
Present architecture options, trade offs, and roadmaps to senior stakeholders and decision makers
Provide technical leadership during program inception, design sign off, and critical milestones
Design end to end data platforms using Azure Databricks, Azure Data Lake (ADLS), Delta Lake, and surrounding Azure services
Define lake house architectures supporting batch, streaming, and near real time use cases
Establish data modeling standards (bronze/silver/gold layers, dimensional models, curated data marts)
Ensure solutions align with security, governance, performance, and cost optimization best practices
Define integration patterns with upstream and downstream systems (APIs, Kafka/Event Hub, Power BI, Azure Synapse, ML workloads)
Support cloud migration, modernization, and legacy platform replacement initiatives
Review and validate offshore team deliverables for architecture adherence, quality, and performance
Resolve technical blockers and guide teams on complex implementations
Enforce coding standards, CI/CD practices, and reusable frameworks
Ensure ontime, high quality delivery aligned with customer expectations
Drive DevOps enablement (Azure DevOps, Git, CI/CD pipelines)
Establish monitoring, logging, and cost optimization strategies
Qualification
Required
Must have Retail domain experience
Strong hands on expertise with Azure Databricks (Spark, Delta Lake, Unity Catalog)
Deep experience with Azure Data Lake Storage (ADLS Gen2)
Deep experience with Azure Data Factory / Synapse Pipelines
Deep experience with Streaming (Kafka / Event Hub / Structured Streaming)
Deep experience with Python, SQL, Spark optimization
Solid understanding of data warehousing, lakehouse, and analytics architectures
Experience with Power BI or other BI/analytics tools
Proven experience working directly with customers in an onshore role
Strong communication, presentation, and stakeholder management skills
Experience managing distributed / offshore delivery teams
Ability to balance hands on architecture work with leadership responsibilities
Strong ownership mindset and decision making ability
10+ years in data engineering / data architecture roles
5+ years designing solutions on Azure data platforms
3+ years in a technical lead or solution architect role
Preferred
Azure or Databricks certifications preferred
Familiarity with ML/AI integration with Databricks is a plus
Company
HMG AMERICA LLC
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Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageCompany data provided by crunchbase