# Databricks Architect \| Canada - Company: [Cuesta Partners]() - Location: Canada - Remote: Yes - Team: Data & AI Consulting - Employment type: Full Time - Salary: $180K – $225K - Posted: August 13, 2026 ## Job description About Cuesta Partners We are looking for a Databricks Architect to lead the delivery of data engineering solutions in a client-facing environment. This is a hands-on leadership role where you will work directly with clients — including C-level stakeholders — to design, build, and deploy production-grade Databricks platforms. **What You’ll Do** * Design and architect scalable Databricks-based solutions for enterprise clients. * Lead end-to-end cloud data platform implementations across AWS and/or Azure. * Design and build production pipelines using Databricks Workflows and Spark Declarative Pipelines. * Design scalable ETL/ELT pipelines using Spark, PySpark, and Databricks Workflows. * Partner directly with client stakeholders to understand business needs and translate them into technical solutions. * Provide technical leadership and guidance to data engineering teams. * Implement CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code for Databricks resources. * Drive collaborative development through Git workflows, pull requests, and code reviews. * Collaborate cross-functionally with analytics, engineering, and business teams. * Serve as the primary technical point of contact for clients, including C-level executives. **What We’re Looking For** * 6+ years of experience in Data Engineering, Cloud Architecture, or related roles. * 3+ years of hands-on experience with Databricks. * Strong proficiency in PySpark, Spark SQL, Python, and SQL. * Deep experience with Delta Lake, Unity Catalog, Delta Live Tables, and Databricks Jobs. * Proven experience delivering Databricks projects in a consulting or professional services environment. * Strong understanding of data lake concepts and formats (Delta, Iceberg, Parquet, etc.). * Experience designing and managing Unity Catalog for governance, access control, and lineage. * Familiarity with medallion architecture (bronze/silver/gold) patterns. * Hands-on experience with Git version control, pull requests, code reviews, and collaborative development workflows. * CI/CD and infrastructure-as-code for Databricks resources (Terraform, Asset Bundles, GitHub Actions). * MLflow experience: experiment tracking, model registry, deployment, and observability. * Cloud platform experience. * Experience working in client-facing, consulting, or cross-functional environments. * Experience leading technical projects or mentoring engineering teams. **Nice to Have** * Databricks certifications (Data Engineer Associate or Professional, Machine Learning Associate or Professional, Data Engineer Associate or Professional or ML Engineer Associate or Professional). * Experience with agentic AI workflows, including agents, skills, and tools on the Databricks side (Agentbricks), as well as LangChain and Claude agentic workflows. **Benefits: What you’ll gain:** * At Cuesta, we value entrepreneurship, humility, diversity, learning, speed, and balance. We provide our team members with: * Constant opportunities for exposure & learning * Flexible working location and enabling personal-life harmony with work * Agency and influence in the company’s total strategy and direction * Collaboration with a high-performing team * Competitive base salary (outlined in this listing) and target bonus of 15-25% * 401k, healthcare benefits, paid time-off, and more! ## Apply [Apply on Cuesta Partners]() Canonical job page: