Solutions Architect 4 - Geosyntec Consultants

Overview

Longenecker & Associates (L&A), a Geosyntec Company, is a trusted partner enabling critical missions across the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) complex for more than 30 years. We contribute to DOE’s nuclear security and environmental remediation enterprise by providing the highest-caliber staff and experts. We are seeking a motivated Solutions Architect 4 to contribute to our mission supporting our work at Los Alamos National Lab in Los Alamos, NM.

Geosyntec is an innovative, international engineering and consulting firm serving private and public-sector clients to address new ventures and complex problems involving our environment, natural resources, and civil infrastructure. Our engineers, scientists, technical and project employees serve our clients from offices across the world. Ranked by ENR as one of the top environmental engineering design firms, Geosyntec is internationally known for its technical leadership, broad experience, and exceptional client service.

We invest in our people. Each employee is unique, and your career at Geosyntec will be too. We offer competitive pay and benefits, and well-being programs to support you and your family.

To Learn More Visit: http://www.geosyntec.com/careers/.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

The Solutions Architect 4 is responsible for managing and ensuring timely completion of discrete technical project scope. This role manages technical requirements; defines and oversees project deliverables, budgets, schedules, and risks; while supporting and in most cases leads the project team in planning, tracking, and executing scope from initiation through turnover.

Duties include but are not limited to:

• Advise on the Databricks reference architecture covering Lakeflow, Delta Lake, Unity Catalog Mosaic AI, Databricks SQL, and Databricks Apps;
• Provide hands-on guidance on Databricks full-stack solution design;
• Advise on design of both data movement (e.g. batch, real-time streaming) and zero-copy patterns;
• Guide platform migrations from legacy SQL and document stores onto Databricks and related cloud data platforms;
• Recommend security, governance, and compliance-as-code: Unity Catalog ABAC, governed tags, row filters/column masks, key management, networking security and compliance security profiles;
• Advise on design of segregated/tiered data pool architectures aligned to the organization's data classification policy and applicable regulatory requirements, including cross-tier data movement;
• Recommend FinOps and performance standards, workload and cost management;
• Mentor data engineers, analysts, and AI/ML teams participate in architecture reviews and contribute to standards;
• Work with information & cyber security, and other teams as needed for compliance to policies and standards; and
• Evaluate emerging Databricks capabil