Principal Databricks Architect

Job Description

Bounteous is a global AI Services firm where agentic engineering and human experience converge to deliver transformative business outcomes for the enterprise. We help organizations design, build, and scale AI-driven products, platforms, and processes. With more than 5,000 team members worldwide, Bounteous delivers AI that sticks, powering adoption and outcomes that move organizations from experimentation to true transformation. Bounteous is backed by New Mountain Capital, a New York-based growth-oriented investment firm that emphasizes business building. We are seeking a Lead Databricks Engineer/Architect to design, build, and scale our cloud-based lakehouse platform. In this role, you will own the end-to-end architecture of our data ecosystem on Databricks, partner with data science and analytics teams to productionize ML and analytical workloads, and set the technical direction for ingestion, transformation, governance, and performance optimization across petabyte-scale datasets. You will be a hands-on technical leader: writing production code, mentoring engineers, and shaping standards that the broader data organization will adopt.