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Overview
Edgewater Federal Solutions is seeking a Solutions Architect 4 to support a major national laboratory.
Responsibilities
Advise on the Databricks reference architecture covering Lakeflow, Delta Lake, Unity Catalog Mosaic AI, Databricks SQL, and Databricks Apps Provide hands-on guidance on Databricks full-stack solution design Advise on design of both data movement (e.g. batch, real-time streaming) and zero-copy patterns Guide platform migrations from legacy SQL and document stores onto Databricks and related cloud data platforms
Advise on design of segregated/tiered data pool architectures aligned to the organization's data classification policy and applicable regulatory requirements, including cross-tier data movement
Recommend FinOps and performance standards, workload and cost management
Mentor data engineers, analysts, and AI/ML teams participate in architecture reviews and contribute to standards
Work with information & cyber security, and other teams as needed for compliance to policies and standards
Evaluate emerging Databricks capabilities and recommend adoption strategies, including endpoint integrations with third parties as they evolve
Qualifications
7+ years designing, building, and operating Databricks workloads with medallion layer architecture Hands-on experience with Delta Lake, Unity Catalog, Spark Structured Streaming, Lakeflow (or DLT/Live Tables), Databricks SQL, MLflow, and Mosaic AI Model Serving Strong experience in cloud architecture supporting the platform (VPC/VNet, Security, S3/ADLS, KMS, etc.) Proven experience migrating enterprise data workloads from legacy/on prem data warehouse/lake to Databricks Production streaming and CDC experience Depth in security and governance: Unity Catalog policies (ABAC), classification, encryption, access auditing, compliance-to-control translation Hands-on experience designing multi-tier Databricks architectures driven by data classification requirements Strong Python and SQL, Spark, Notebooks Excellent verbal and written communication skills
Desired:
Active Databricks certifications
GenAI and agent systems on Databricks experience
Delta Sharing and Databricks Clean Rooms for controlled, governed data exchange across organizational/cross-tier/system boundaries
Familiarity with Oracle EBS and SAP enterprise data
Experience with SAP BDC/DataSphere and Databricks integration to SAP BDC, with zero-copy patterns
Lakeflow Designer, Databricks Apps, Genie, Databricks One
CI/CD, Infrastructure-as-Code (e.g. Terraform) for data platforms Experience in designing, building, supporting BI reporting layers
Data Quality and Data Governance experience
Prior experience in regulated industries (e.g. utilities, life sciences, government services) and exposure to related frameworks (e.g. FERC/NERC, HIPAA, GxP, GDPR, FedRAMP, ITAR, etc.)
About Us:
Edgewater Federal Solutions is a privately held government contracting firm located in Frederick, MD. The company was founded in 2002 with the vision of being highly recognized and admired for supporting customer missions through employee empowerment, exceptional services and timely delivery. Edgewater Federal Solutions is ISO 9001, 20000-1, 270001 certified, appraised at CMMI Level 3 Maturity for Development and Services, and has been named in the Top Workplaces in the Greater Washington Area Small Companies for 2018 through 2025.
It has been and continues to be the policy of Edgewater Federal Solutions to provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, marital status, veteran status, and/or other statuses protected by applicable law.
