Senior Data Architect – Databricks / Azure / Data Integration

Job summary

Lead data architecture and integration for the Government of Alberta’s Digital Regulatory Assurance System, designing its target-state architecture across DRAS, Databricks, and the Alberta Geospatial Platform. Develop enterprise data models and integration flows while applying governance, metadata, lineage, data quality, security, and privacy practices.

Job details

Senior Data Architect – Databricks / Azure / Data Integration Seeking a Senior Data Architect to lead data architecture and integration for the Government of Alberta’s Digital Regulatory Assurance System (DRAS). Design target-state data architecture connecting DRAS, Databricks Data Management Platform, and Alberta Geospatial Platform. Strong hands-on expertise with Databricks, Delta Lake, Spark/PySpark, SQL, and Unity Catalog is required. Develop conceptual, logical, physical, relational, dimensional, and lakehouse data models for enterprise data environments. Design enterprise integration using REST APIs, ETL/ELT, event streaming, batch/near-real-time processing, and Change Data Capture (CDC). Strong Microsoft Azure experience with technologies such as ADLS, Azure Data Factory, Event Hubs, and Key Vault is highly preferred. Experience with geospatial data/platforms, spatial data flows, geometry, coordinate reference systems, and spatial standards is important. Apply data governance, metadata, lineage, data quality, master/reference data, security, privacy, and role-based access controls. Experience with ServiceNow Integration, enterprise architecture, SQL databases/data warehouses, Agile delivery, and public-sector/government environments is highly desirable. Candidate should have 8+ years of enterprise Data Architecture/database experience, strong communication/leadership skills, and experience working with large, complex organizations.

What you’ll do

Lead data architecture and integration for the Government of Alberta’s Digital Regulatory Assurance System, designing its target-state architecture across DRAS, Databricks, and the Alberta Geospatial Platform. Develop enterprise data models and integration flows while applying governance, metadata, lineage, data quality, security, and privacy practices.

Requirements

Requires 8+ years of enterprise data architecture or database experience, with strong hands-on expertise in Databricks, Delta Lake, Spark/PySpark, SQL, and Unity Catalog. Azure, geospatial data, enterprise integration, governance, and experience in large organizations are important; strong communication and leadership skills are also expected.

Listed skills

• Microsoft Azure · Preferred
• SQL · Preferred
• REST APIs · Preferred

Other relevant skills

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• Data Architecture
• Databricks
• Delta Lake
• Apache Spark
• PySpark
• SQL
• Unity Catalog
• Data Modeling
• Data Integration
• REST APIs
• ETL/ELT
• Event Streaming
• Change Data Capture
• Microsoft Azure
• Geospatial Data
• Data Governance

Job areas

• Data & Analytics
• Technology
• Government & Public Sector
• Consulting
• Management & Leadership

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