Overview\n\nBaker Tilly is a leading advisory, tax and assurance firm, providing clients with a genuine coast-to-coast and global advantage in major regions of the U.S. and in many of the world's leading financial centers - New York, London, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago and Boston. Baker Tilly Advisory Group, LP and Baker Tilly US, LLP (Baker Tilly) provide professional services through an alternative practice structure in accordance with the AICPA Code of Professional Conduct and applicable laws, regulations and professional standards. Baker Tilly US, LLP is a licensed independent CPA firm that provides attest services to its clients. Baker Tilly Advisory Group, LP and its subsidiary entities provide tax and business advisory services to their clients. Baker Tilly Advisory Group, LP and its subsidiary entities are not licensed CPA firms.\n\nBaker Tilly Advisory Group, LP and Baker Tilly US, LLP, trading as Baker Tilly, are independent members of Baker Tilly International, a worldwide network of independent accounting and business advisory firms in 141 territories, with 43,000 professionals and a combined worldwide revenue of $5.2 billion. Visit bakertilly.com or join the conversation on LinkedIn, Facebook and Instagram. \n\nPlease discuss the work location status with your Baker Tilly talent acquisition professional to understand the requirements for an opportunity you are exploring.\n\nBaker Tilly is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability or protected veteran status, gender identity, sexual orientation, or any other legally protected basis, in accordance with applicable federal, state or local law.\n\nAny unsolicited resumes submitted through our website or to Baker Tilly Advisory Group, LP, employee e-mail accounts are considered property of Baker Tilly Advisory Group, LP, and are not subject to payment of agency fees. In order to be an authorized recruitment agency ("search firm") for Baker Tilly Advisory Group, LP, there must be a formal written agreement in place and the agency must be invited, by Baker Tilly's Talent Attraction team, to submit candidates for review via our applicant tracking system.\n\nJob Description:\n\n \nWe are seeking an experienced Databricks Architect to strengthen the impact of, and provide recommendations on, business information that will need to be available and shared consistently across the organization through the identification, definition, and analysis of how information assets aid strategies and business outcomes.\n\nThis role is responsible for the company's Data Lakehouse platform and will be collaborating with department heads to determine their data storage and organizational needs, utilizing the information to create and maintain data infrastructure. This person will help define the firm's business information assets (as well as the assets' sources, structure, classification, and associations) as part of its information strategy to respond to disruptive forces and move toward desired business outcomes.\n\nYou will enjoy this role if you:\n\n * Have developed and implemented an organizational data strategy that is in line with business processes as part of a digital transformation journey.\n * Designed and implemented data architecture using the medallion architecture data management framework. Managing end-to-end data architecture, designing the technical architecture, and assist in developing the solutions to final testing and implementing.\n * Identifying data sources, both internal and external, and working out a plan for data ingestion and management that is aligned with the organizational data strategy.\n * Successfully communicating with cross-functional teams, stakeholders, and vendors for the consistency of the enterprise data platform.\n * Facilitate sessions with internal teams to gather requirements, understand business needs, and establish best practices for data workflow solutions.\n * Collaborate with cross-functional teams to develop data governance frameworks and align with standardize reporting processes.\n * Create documentation and offer continuous support to enable users and improve organizational data literacy.\n * Guaranteeing high-quality deliverables by establishing development standards, ensuring compliance, and engaging in thorough code reviews.\n * Conducting a continuous audit of data management system performance, refine whenever required, and report immediately any breach or loopholes to the stakeholders.\n * Provide excellent leadership and management to other technical team members and ensuring standardized and consistent data development practices, while coaching them to realize their full potential.\n\nSuccessful Candidates will have:\n\nBackground:\n\n * Minimum of 3+ years' experience required / 5+ years' preferred managing Data Lakehouse environments, Azure Databricks specific experience a plus.\n * Bachelor's degree in management/computer information systems, computer science, accounting information systems, computer or in a relevant field.\n\nTechnical Skills:\n\n * Tools and Technologies: Azure Databricks, Apache Spark, Python, Databricks SQL, Unity Catalog, and Delta Live Tables.\n * Understanding of cluster configuration, compute and storage layers.\n * System integration experience, data extraction, transformation, and quality controls design techniques.\n * Familiarity with data science concepts, as well as MDM, business intelligence, and data warehouse design and implementation techniques.\n * Extensive experience with the medallion architecture data management framework as well as unity catalog.\n * Data modeling and information classification expertise at the enterprise level.\n * Understanding of metamodels, taxonomies and ontologies, as well as of the challenges of applying structured techniques (data modeling) to less-structured sources.\n * Ability to assess rapidly changing technologies and apply them to business needs.\n * Be able to translate the information architecture contribution to business outcomes into simple briefings for use by various data-and-analytics-related roles.\n\nSoft Skills: \n\n * Proven experience as an IT leader in data architecture and experience managing junior team members providing guidance and support to ensure development.\n * Ability to shift priorities as needed and in a fast, ever-changing environment and assessing rapidly changing technologies\n * Excellent verbal and written communication skills and the ability to interact professionally with a diverse group, executives, managers, and subject matter experts.\n\nHow you can set yourself apart: \n\n * Experience with professional service industry or CPA and advisory firms\n * To view the full job description please use the link below. https://www.aplitrak.com/?adid=YmJnZW5lcmljLjQ4NzEzLjEyMjQ4QGJha2VydGlsbHljb21wLmFwbGl0cmFrLmNvbQ
