Databricks Lead / Data Architect
VDart Inc
📍 mississauga, peel region, Canada
Job Description
Databricks Lead / Data Architect
Role: Databricks Lead / Data Architect
Location: Mississauga, ON
Contract
About the Role
We are hiring a senior, deeply hands‑on Databricks Lead / Data Architect to drive the Databricks workstream of a large‑scale data and AI modernization program for a major Canadian enterprise retail client. This is a build‑and‑lead role: you will own the technical direction of Databricks‑based solutions end to end—architecture, Lakehouse design, data engineering, migration of legacy ETL workloads, and production operations—while remaining personally hands‑on in code and design.
You will work side by side with the client's VP of Data & AI and the AVP of Data Platforms & Integration and their teams, acting as the senior technical authority who turns strategy into delivered, production‑grade outcomes. The immediate focus is modernizing a large on‑premise ETL estate (IBM DataStage) to an Azure‑native Lakehouse on Azure Da...