[Hiring] Principal Architect @SHI International Corp.

Role Description

We are expanding our Databricks capability within the Data and AI practice and are looking for a Principal Solutions Architect to lead the technical side of it.

• Own the Technical Side of Databricks Pursuits
  • Lead qualification, technical discovery, target architecture design, effort estimation, and risk assessment.
  • Develop technical content for proposals and Statements of Work (SOWs).
  • Build and maintain technical relationships with customer architects and stakeholders.
  • Provide customers with realistic and accurate assessments of migration complexity, implementation effort, AI workload readiness, and associated risks.
• Provide Architectural Oversight Through Delivery
  • Review architecture decisions throughout project delivery.
  • Confirm that the delivered solution aligns with what was originally scoped and proposed.
  • Surface technical risks and issues early in the engagement.
  • Remain closely involved throughout delivery to ensure accountability for architecture and outcomes.
• Shape Databricks Service Offerings
  • Define the technical content of market-facing Databricks offerings.
  • Establish what is included in scope, how success is measured, and what evidence validates successful completion.
  • Create repeatable delivery standards and frameworks that teams can execute consistently.
• Partner with Databricks
  • Engage directly with Databricks field teams and specialist architects on joint customer accounts.
  • Build productive relationships with Databricks technical teams.
  • Effectively collaborate and navigate technical challenges, feedback, and differing viewpoints from vendor architects and specialists.

Qualifications

• Willingness to Learn
• Self-Development
• Leadership
• Strategic Thinking
• Problem-Solving
• Analytical Thinking
• Prioritization
• Customer-Centric Mindset
• Organization
• Communication
• Interpersonal Skills

Requirements

• Lakehouse Platform and Architecture
  • Account and workspace design
  • Unity Catalog and metastore architecture
  • Compute strategy across interactive, jobs, and serverless workloads
  • Open table format decisions
  • Cost architecture and design choices that affect long-term scalability and affordability
• Migration and Consolidation
  • Migrating organizations from Hadoop and Spark environments
  • Modernizing legacy analytics and statistical platforms
  • Consolidating established warehouses and appliance-based solutions
  • Migrating workloads from other cloud platforms
• Data Engineering and Pipelines
  • Batch data ingestion
  • Streaming data ingestion
  • Declarative pipeline development
  • Workflow orchestration
  • Testing and validation frameworks
  • Data quality instrumentation
• Machine Learning and AI Engineering
  • Feature engineering
  • Experiment tracking
  • Model registry and serving
  • Evaluation and validation frameworks
  • Retrieval and grounding architectures
  • Agent development
• Governance at the Perimeter
  • Catalog-based access controls
  • Data classification
  • Data masking
  • Data lineage and governance frameworks
• Consumption Economics
  • Compute sizing strategies
  • Workload placement optimization
  • Serverless versus classic compute trade-offs
  • Consumption attribution and chargeback models
  • Cost management and optimization practices

Benefits

• Medical, vision, dental
• 401K
• Flexible spending

Company Description

Since 1989, SHI International Corp. has helped organizations change the world through technology. We’ve grown every year since, and today we’re proud to be a $16 billion global provider of IT solutions and services.

• Our commitment to diversity, as the largest minority- and woman-owned enterprise in the U.S.
• Continuous professional growth and leadership opportunities.
• Health, wellness, and financial benefits to offer peace of mind to you and your family.
• World-class facilities and the technology you need to thrive – in our offices or yours.