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Databricks Architect - Drilling & Energy Domain

SumasEdge CorporationTulsa, OK🇺🇸United StatesPosted Sep 21, 2026

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Seniority
Mid Senior
Work mode
On Site
Location
Tulsa, OK, United States
Posted
3 days ago
SQLAWSETLMLflowApacheApache SparkAzureComplianceDatabricksPythonStakeholder ManagementUnity

Job Description

Job Description: Databricks Architect - Drilling & Energy Domain

Location - Tulsa, Onsite

Experience- 12+ Years of IT Experience with 5+ Years in Databricks Architecture

Databricks Architect who brings both technical expertise and domain knowledge of the drilling business.

The ideal candidate should:

  • Have strong hands-on experience in Databricks architecture and implementation.
  • Possess a solid understanding of drilling operations and associated business processes.
  • Demonstrate leadership and stakeholder management skills.
  • Be capable of working directly with business stakeholders to understand requirements and translate them into effective solutions.
  • Bring industry best practices, architectural governance, and strategic guidance to the engagement.

Role Overview

We are seeking a highly experienced Databricks Architect with strong expertise in modern data platforms and a deep understanding of the Oil & Gas Drilling business. The ideal candidate will serve as a trusted advisor to business and technology stakeholders, driving data strategy, architecture, and solution delivery while enabling business transformation through data-driven insights.

This role requires a combination of technical leadership, industry domain expertise, stakeholder management, and consulting skills to design and implement scalable data solutions aligned with business objectives.

Success Criteria

The successful candidate will:

  • Bring industry best practices and architectural leadership to the engagement.
  • Act as a strategic partner to business stakeholders.
  • Drive scalable, secure, and future-ready data solutions.
  • Accelerate business value realization through effective use of the Databricks platform.
  • Improve collaboration between business and technology teams while ensuring successful solution adoption.

Key Responsibilities

Architecture & Technology Leadership

  • Design and implement enterprise-scale data platforms using Databricks, Azure/AWS cloud technologies, and modern data architectures.
  • Define end-to-end data architecture, data models, integration patterns, security, governance, and performance optimization strategies.
  • Establish architectural standards, best practices, and implementation frameworks across projects.
  • Lead modernization initiatives involving data lakes, lakehouse architecture, real-time analytics, AI/ML enablement, and cloud migration programs.

Business & Domain Engagement

  • Work directly with business stakeholders, drilling engineers, operations teams, and leadership to understand business challenges and translate them into technology solutions.
  • Provide thought leadership on leveraging data and analytics to improve drilling performance, operational efficiency, asset utilization, and decision-making.
  • Drive business workshops, solution reviews, and architecture discussions with customer leadership.

Delivery & Governance

  • Provide technical oversight throughout the solution lifecycle from discovery through deployment.
  • Ensure compliance with enterprise architecture, security, data governance, and quality standards.
  • Mentor engineering teams and provide technical guidance on Databricks implementations.
  • Review solution designs and ensure adherence to best practices.

Leadership & Stakeholder Management

  • Act as a trusted advisor for business and IT stakeholders.
  • Collaborate with project managers, product owners, data engineers, data scientists, and business users.
  • Influence strategic decisions regarding data and analytics investments.
  • Drive adoption of industry-leading practices and innovation.

Technology Focus: Azure Databricks, Azure Data Platform, Lakehouse Architecture, Advanced Analytics, AI/ML.

Reporting To: Account Delivery Leadership
Target Industry Experience: Oil & Gas, Drilling, Energy Services, Upstream Operations.

Required Qualifications

Technical Skills

  • Strong expertise in Databricks Lakehouse Platform.
  • Hands-on experience with:
    • Apache Spark
    • Delta Lake
    • Unity Catalog
    • Databricks Workflows
    • MLflow
    • Structured Streaming
  • Strong experience with Azure Data Services and/or AWS Data Analytics services.
  • Expertise in Data Warehousing, Data Lakes, ETL/ELT, Data Modeling, and Analytics platforms.
  • Experience implementing scalable enterprise data architectures.
  • Strong knowledge of SQL, Python, Spark, and cloud-native solutions.

Domain Expertise

  • Strong understanding of Oil & Gas Drilling Operations.
  • Experience working with drilling, well planning, rig performance, production, operational analytics, and drilling data management.
  • Ability to engage effectively with drilling business stakeholders and translate business needs into technical solutions.

Leadership Skills

  • Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.
  • Experience leading architecture discussions with senior business and technology leaders.
  • Proven ability to influence decisions and drive consensus across teams.
  • Strong mentoring and coaching capabilities.

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