# Resident Solutions Architect - Public Sector

**Company:** [Databricks](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/databricks)
**Location:** Washington, DC, Maryland, Virginia
**Role:** Solutions Architecture
**Salary:** $181k – $248k/yr
**Experience:** 6+ years
**Skills:** Python, Scala, Spark, AWS, Azure, GCP, MLOps, CI/CD, Databricks
**Posted:** 2026-04-03

> Resident Solutions Architect delivers technical projects using Databricks for public sector clients, including architecture design, implementation, and support for big data and AI initiatives. Requires 6+ years in data engineering, Spark expertise, cloud platforms, and US Top Secret Clearance.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities

- Handle customer technical projects including designing reference architectures, creating how-to's, and productionalizing use cases
- Work with engagement managers to scope professional services work
- Guide customers on big data projects, 3rd party migrations, end-to-end design, build, and deployment of big data and AI applications
- Consult on architecture and design; bootstrap or implement customer projects
- Provide escalated support for customer operational issues
- Collaborate with Databricks Technical, Project Manager, Architect, and Customer teams
- Work with Engineering and Customer Support to provide product feedback

## Requirements

- 6+ years experience in data engineering, data platforms & analytics
- Comfortable writing code in Python or Scala
- Working knowledge of two or more cloud ecosystems (AWS, Azure, GCP) with expertise in at least one
- Deep experience with distributed computing with **Apache Spark** and knowledge of Spark runtime internals
- Familiarity with CI/CD for production deployments
- Working knowledge of **MLOps**
- Design and deployment of performant end-to-end data architectures
- Experience with technical project delivery - managing scope and timelines
- Documentation and white-boarding skills
- Experience working with clients and managing conflicts
- **Bachelor's degree** in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or equivalent experience
- Ability to travel up to 30%

## Nice-to-Haves

- US Top Secret Clearance (required)
- Active Secret or higher clearance strongly encouraged

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