Lead Databricks Architect

Job description

Say hello to opportunities.

 It’s not every day that you consider starting a new career.

We’re RingCentral, and we’re happy that someone as talented as you is considering this role.

First, a little about us, we’re a $2 Billion annual revenue company with double digit Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR) and a $93 Billion market opportunity in UCaaS, Contact Center and AI-powered adjacencies.

We invest more than $250 million annually to ensure our AI-enabled technology and platforms meet or exceed the needs of our customers. 

RingSense AI is our proprietary AI solution.

It’s designed to fit the business needs of our customers, orchestrated to be accurate and precise, and built on the same open platform principles we apply to our core software solutions. 

This is where you and your skills come in.

We are looking for a seasoned Lead Databricks Architect / Engineer to lead our Databricks initiative.

This role will own the technical strategy, architecture, and execution roadmap, and will partner with engineering, data science, and infrastructure teams to ensure a seamless integration. 

Job Duties:

• Define and drive the Databricks strategy, roadmap, and architecture, including data ingestion, storage, compute, governance, and security. 

• Evaluate and implement best practices for large-scale distributed data processing in Databricks. 

• Optimize performance, cost, and scalability of data pipelines during and after migration. 

• Partner with data engineers, data scientists, and platform teams to ensure business continuity and minimal disruption during cutover. 

• Establish monitoring, reliability, and operational standards in the new environment. 

• Provide technical leadership, mentorship, and hands-on guidance to the engineering team. 

• Collaborate with cloud vendors (AWS, Azure, or GCP, depending on deployment) to ensure alignment with platform best practices. 

Desired Qualifications:

• 10+ years in data engineering / big data roles, with at least 3+ years of Databricks experience. 

• Proven success in migrating large Hadoop ecosystems (multi-petabyte scale preferred) to Databricks or equivalent cloud-based data platforms. 

• Deep expertise in Spark, Delta Lake, SQL, and Databricks runtime. 

• Strong understanding of cloud data architectures (AWS, Azure, or GCP) including storage (S3, ADLS, GCS), compute, networking, and security. 

• Experience with data governance, cataloging, lineage, and compliance (e.g., Alation, Collibra, Purview). 

• Proficiency in Python, SQL, and Scala for building and optimizing ETL/ELT pipelines. 

• Strong knowledge of modern data platform patterns (Lakehouse, ML/AI integration, streaming). 

• Excellent communication and leadership skills—comfortable leading cross-functional teams through complex transformations. 

Nice to Have:

• Prior leadership as lead engineer / architect on cloud data migration projects. 

• Experience with CI/CD for data pipelines, Infrastructure as Code, and DevOps practices. 

• Exposure to machine learning workflows and MLOps in Databricks. 

• Certifications: Databricks Certified Data Engineer Professional / Solutions Architect, Cloud Provider Certifications (AWS, Azure, GCP). 

What we offer:  

• Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, disability, life insurance

• Health Savings Account (HSA), Flexible Spending Account (FSAs) and Commuter benefits

• Voluntary supplemental health coverage and life insurance

• 401K match and ESPP

• Paid time off and paid sick leave

• Paid parental and pregnancy leave 

• Family-forming benefits (IVF, Preservation, Adoption etc.)

• Emergency backup care (Child/Adult/Pets)

• Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with counseling sessions available 24/7

• Free legal services that provide legal advice, document creation and estate planning

• Employee bonus referral program

• Student loan refinancing assistance

• Employee 1:1 coaching, perks and discounts program

RingCentral’s Engineering team works on high-complexity projects that set the standard for performance and reliability at massive scale.

What kind of scale?

Millions of users today and hundreds of millions tomorrow.

This is  your chance to help imagine, develop and deliver products that raise the technological bar, and power human connections.

If you’re a talented, ambitious, creative thinker, RingCentral is the perfect environment to join a world class team and bring your ideas to life. 

RingCentral’s work culture is the backbone of our success.

And don’t just take our word for it: we are recognized as a Best Place to Work by Glassdoor, the Top Work Culture by Comparably and hold local BPTW awards in every major location.

Bottom line: We are committed to hiring and retaining great people because we know you power our success.

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