Data Architect (Databricks)

Location: Remote in LATAM

Company

hirify.global is a global digital engineering, product development, and technology consulting company headquartered in New York, with more than 1,000 experts across 65+ countries.

What you will do

• Design and develop the Databricks Platform Modernization initiative, including greenfield medallion architecture, entity relationship models, data contracts, cleansing, deduplication, and merge logic.
• Build environment promotion workflows across development, QA, and production, including deployment pipelines, validation gates, and release governance.
• Enable UAT for Genie and Lakeview dashboards, resolve defects, and contribute reusable components to the shared Databricks platform template.
• Design data quality, monitoring, reconciliation, and machine-checked data conservation contracts.
• Design Unity Catalog-governed feature pipelines and ML-ready data layers, integrating MLflow experiment tracking and model registry into the promotion model.
• Evaluate and pilot GenAI and agentic capabilities, including vector search, RAG pipelines, model-serving endpoints, and AI-assisted engineering tools.

Requirements

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field.
• 10+ years of experience in data engineering and data architecture roles.
• 4+ years of hands-on experience with Databricks.
• Strong knowledge of AWS cloud platforms.
• Hands-on knowledge of Delta Lake medallion architecture, Unity Catalog schema and metric-view design, Databricks Asset Bundles, Databricks Jobs orchestration, freshness and volume monitoring, DataPact contracts, and DQX checks.
• Experience designing GitHub Actions-based CI/CD promotion pipelines, Databricks Asset Bundle validation gates, and OIDC-based cloud authentication instead of long-lived secrets.
• Experience designing formal data reconciliation contracts for cross-system parity and versioned-state recovery.
• Exposure to LLMs, Generative AI concepts, prompt engineering, and AI-assisted development tools.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English; ability to lead discussions with technical and business representatives, work independently, and collaborate in international project teams.

Nice to have

• Experience in the insurance industry.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote work from LATAM within a global, multinational company.
• Participation in international projects and collaboration with Enterprise Architecture, ML, and cross-domain teams.
• Ongoing knowledge transfer, documentation, team upskilling, and onboarding support.
• Work within a formal peer-reviewed production release and enterprise change-control process.