Senior Data Platform Architect.

<div><div><p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><span lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto">Job Overview</span></strong></span></p></div><div><p><span lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto">We're looking for a Senior Data Platform Architect to design, administer, and secure the Azure Databricks platform that powers digital and marketing, finance, revenue management, and booking and reservations. You will lead North America platform administration, including Unity Catalog governance, access, pipeline reliability, and cost. You will also set the standard for safe, AI-assisted coding across the data team.</span><span data-ccp-props="{}">&nbsp;</span></p><p><span data-ccp-props="{}">This is a hybrid position based in our Woodland Hills, Los Angeles office. You will be required to adhere to our hybrid work policy, working from our office Monday and Thursday plus one additional weekday on a weekly basis.</span></p></div><div><p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><span lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto">Job Responsibilities:</span></strong></span></p></div><div><p><strong><span lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto">Platform Architecture</span><span data-ccp-props="{}">&nbsp;</span></strong></p></div><div><ul role="list"><li role="listitem" aria-setsize="-1" data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="11" data-list-defn-props="{" data-aria-posinset="1" data-aria-level="1"><p><span lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto">Design the medallion architecture, including catalog and schema design, layer contracts, and the promotion path.</span><span data-ccp-props="{}">&nbsp;</span></p></li></ul></div><div><ul role="list"><li role="listitem" aria-setsize="-1" data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="11" data-list-defn-props="{" data-aria-posinset="2" data-aria-level="1"><p><span lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto">Align platform design with enterprise security and networking standards.</span><span data-ccp-props="{}">&nbsp;</span></p></li></ul></div><div><ul role="list"><li role="listitem" aria-setsize="-1" data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="11" data-list-defn-props="{" data-aria-posinset="3" data-aria-level="1"><p><span lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto">Bridge Data Solutions and Infrastructure so BI, AI, data science, and activation teams can build on your decisions.</span><span data-ccp-props="{}">&nbsp;</span></p></li></ul></div><div><p><strong><span lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto">Databricks and Unity Catalog Administration</span><span data-ccp-props="{}">&nbsp;</span></strong></p></div><div><ul role="list"><li role="listitem" aria-setsize="-1" data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="12" data-list-defn-props="{" data-aria-posinset="1" data-aria-level="1"><p><span lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto">Administer Unity Catalog: catalog, external locations, credentials, grants, and service principals.</span><span data-ccp-props="{}">&nbsp;</span></p></li></ul></div><div><ul role="list"><li role="listitem" aria-setsize="-1" data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="12" data-list-defn-props="{" data-aria-posinset="2" data-aria-level="1"><p><span lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto">Set workspace and compute standards.</span><span data-ccp-props="{}">&nbsp;</span></p></li></ul></div><div><ul role="list"><li role="listitem" aria-setsize="-1" data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="12" data-list-defn-props="{" data-aria-posinset="3" data-aria-level="1"><p><span lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto">Manage identity: users, groups, SCIM provisioning from Entra ID, secret scopes, and token governance.</span><span data-ccp-props="{}">&nbsp;</span></p></li></ul></div><div><p><strong><span lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto">Ingestion, Orchestration, and Integration</span><span data-ccp-props="{}">&nbsp;</span></strong></p></div><div><ul role="list"><li role="listitem" aria-setsize="-1" data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="13" data-list-defn-props="{" data-aria-posinset="1" data-aria-level="1"><p><span lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto">Design pipelines across Azure Data Factory and Databricks Workflows.</span><span data-ccp-props="{}">&nbsp;</span></p></li></ul></div><div><ul role="list"><li role="listitem" aria-setsize="-1" data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="13" data-list-defn-props="{" data-aria-posinset="2" data-aria-level="1"><p><span lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto">Maintain source integrations and their credential lifecycles.</span><span data-ccp-props="{}">&nbsp;</span></p></li></ul></div><div><ul role="list"><li role="listitem" aria-setsize="-1" data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="13" data-list-defn-props="{" data-aria-posinset="3" data-aria-level="1"><p><span lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto">Establish data contracts with upstream owners.</span><span data-ccp-props="{}">&nbsp;</span></p></li></ul></div><div><ul role="list"><li role="listitem" aria-setsize="-1" data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="13" data-list-defn-props="{" data-aria-posinset="4" data-aria-level="1"><p><span lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto">Land a SQL Server to Databricks modernization decision without breaking existing reporting.</span><span data-ccp-props="{}">&nbsp;</span></p></li></ul><div><div><p><strong><span lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto">AI-Assisted Engineering Standards</span><span data-ccp-props="{}">&nbsp;</span></strong></p></div><div><ul role="list"><li role="listitem" aria-setsize="-1" data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="14" data-list-defn-props="{" data-aria-posinset="1" data-aria-level="1"><p><span lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto">Set and enforce the AI coding standard.</span><span data-ccp-props="{}">&nbsp;</span></p></li></ul></div></div><div><div><ul role="list"><li role="listitem" aria-setsize="-1" data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="14" data-list-defn-props="{" data-aria-posinset="2" data-aria-level="1"><p><span lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto">Build and maintain the AI coding harness. </span><span data-ccp-props="{}">&nbsp;</span></p></li></ul></div><div><ul role="list"><li role="listitem" aria-setsize="-1" data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="14" data-list-defn-props="{" data-aria-posinset="3" data-aria-level="1"><p><span lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto">Establish review practices for generated code and SQL, correctness, cost and performance impact</span></p></li></ul></div><div><p><strong><span lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto">Security, Access, and Governance</span><span data-ccp-props="{}">&nbsp;</span></strong></p></div><div><ul role="list"><li role="listitem" aria-setsize="-1" data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="16" data-list-defn-props="{" data-aria-posinset="1" data-aria-level="1"><p><span lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto">Define the security posture: network isolation, private connectivity, and storage firewalls. </span><span data-ccp-props="{}">&nbsp;</span></p></li></ul></div><div><ul role="list"><li role="listitem" aria-setsize="-1" data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="16" data-list-defn-props="{" data-aria-posinset="2" data-aria-level="1"><p><span lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto">Run credential hygiene: secrets in Key Vault, scheduled rotation, and no long-lived plaintext tokens.</span><span data-ccp-props="{}">&nbsp;</span></p></li></ul></div><div><ul role="list"><li role="listitem" aria-setsize="-1" data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="16" data-list-defn-props="{" data-aria-posinset="3" data-aria-level="1"><p><span lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto">Design the access model: roles, and privileged access. </span><span data-ccp-props="{}">&nbsp;</span></p></li></ul></div><div><ul role="list"><li role="listitem" aria-setsize="-1" data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="16" data-list-defn-props="{" data-aria-posinset="4" data-aria-level="1"><p><span lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto">Partner with Infrastructure to manage configuration in Terraform and CI/CD.</span><span data-ccp-props="{}">&nbsp;</span></p></li></ul></div><div><p><strong><span lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto">Reliability, Quality, and Cost</span><span data-ccp-props="{}">&nbsp;</span></strong></p></div><div><ul role="list"><li role="listitem" aria-setsize="-1" data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="18" data-list-defn-props="{" data-aria-posinset="1" data-aria-level="1"><p><span lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto">Define SLAs for critical pipelines and build the monitoring and alerting to prove they are met.</span><span data-ccp-props="{}">&nbsp;</span></p></li></ul></div><div><ul role="list"><li role="listitem" aria-setsize="-1" data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="18" data-list-defn-props="{" data-aria-posinset="2" data-aria-level="1"><p><span lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto">Lead incident response through triage, root cause, remediation, and a written RCA that drives change.</span><span data-ccp-props="{}">&nbsp;</span></p></li></ul></div></div><div><div><ul role="list"><li role="listitem" aria-setsize="-1" data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="18" data-list-defn-props="{" data-aria-posinset="3" data-aria-level="1"><p><span lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto">Monitor platform spend: cluster right-sizing, storage lifecycle, and cost per workload.</span><span data-ccp-props="{}">&nbsp;</span></p></li></ul></div><div><p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><span lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto">Job Requirements:</span></strong></span></p></div><div><ul role="list"><li role="listitem" aria-setsize="-1" data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="19" data-list-defn-props="{" data-aria-posinset="1" data-aria-level="1"><p><span lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto">Strong end-to-end data platform experience across architecture, administration, and production operations.</span><span data-ccp-props="{}">&nbsp;</span></p></li></ul></div><div><ul role="list"><li role="listitem" aria-setsize="-1" data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="19" data-list-defn-props="{" data-aria-posinset="2" data-aria-level="1"><p><span lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto">Databricks Design and Administration (Expert): hands-on with Unity Catalog , cluster policy, workspace configuration, and identity federation, beyond notebook development.</span><span data-ccp-props="{}">&nbsp;</span></p></li></ul></div><div><ul role="list"><li role="listitem" aria-setsize="-1" data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="19" data-list-defn-props="{" data-aria-posinset="3" data-aria-level="1"><p><span lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto">SQL (Expert): complex analytical queries, optimization, and performance tuning.</span><span data-ccp-props="{}">&nbsp;</span></p></li></ul></div><div><ul role="list"><li role="listitem" aria-setsize="-1" data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="19" data-list-defn-props="{" data-aria-posinset="4" data-aria-level="1"><p><span lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto">Python (Advanced): production-grade PySpark with strong data quality and testing practices.</span><span data-ccp-props="{}">&nbsp;</span></p></li></ul></div><div><ul role="list"><li role="listitem" aria-setsize="-1" data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="19" data-list-defn-props="{" data-aria-posinset="5" data-aria-level="1"><p><span lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto">Azure (Strong): ADLS Gen2, Data Factory, Entra ID, Key Vault, private connectivity, and RBAC design.</span><span data-ccp-props="{}">&nbsp;</span></p></li></ul></div><div><ul role="list"><li role="listitem" aria-setsize="-1" data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="19" data-list-defn-props="{" data-aria-posinset="6" data-aria-level="1"><p><span lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto">Infrastructure as Code (Working Knowledge): Terraform and Git-based CI/CD. &nbsp;</span><span data-ccp-props="{}">&nbsp;</span></p></li></ul></div><div><ul role="list"><li role="listitem" aria-setsize="-1" data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="19" data-list-defn-props="{" data-aria-posinset="7" data-aria-level="1"><p><span lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto">Proven ownership of a production platform.</span><span data-ccp-props="{}">&nbsp;</span></p></li></ul></div><div><ul role="list"><li role="listitem" aria-setsize="-1" data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="19" data-list-defn-props="{" data-aria-posinset="8" data-aria-level="1"><p><span lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto">Data governance and access control experience, including privacy or consent handling across multiple markets.</span><span data-ccp-props="{}">&nbsp;</span></p></li></ul></div><div><ul role="list"><li role="listitem" aria-setsize="-1" data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="19" data-list-defn-props="{" data-aria-posinset="9" data-aria-level="1"><p><span lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto">Ability to explain design trade-offs to engineers and business stakeholders.</span><span data-ccp-props="{}">&nbsp;</span></p></li></ul></div><div><p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><span lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto">Nice to Have:</span></strong></span></p></div><div><ul role="list"><li role="listitem" aria-setsize="-1" data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="20" data-list-defn-props="{" data-aria-posinset="1" data-aria-level="1"><p><span lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto">Snowflake, Synapse, or Microsoft Fabric operated alongside Databricks.</span><span data-ccp-props="{}">&nbsp;</span></p></li></ul></div><div><ul role="list"><li role="listitem" aria-setsize="-1" data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="20" data-list-defn-props="{" data-aria-posinset="2" data-aria-level="1"><p><span lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto">MLOps with Databricks Asset Bundles, plus drift and quality monitoring over inference tables.</span><span data-ccp-props="{}">&nbsp;</span></p></li></ul></div><div><ul role="list"><li role="listitem" aria-setsize="-1" data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="20" data-list-defn-props="{" data-aria-posinset="3" data-aria-level="1"><p><span lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto">Experience retiring a legacy SQL Server estate without breaking downstream reports.</span><span data-ccp-props="{}">&nbsp;</span></p></li></ul></div><div><ul role="list"><li role="listitem" aria-setsize="-1" data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="20" data-list-defn-props="{" data-aria-posinset="4" data-aria-level="1"><p><span lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto">dbt or a similar framework for layered models and testing.</span><span data-ccp-props="{}">&nbsp;</span></p></li></ul></div></div><div><div><ul role="list"><li role="listitem" aria-setsize="-1" data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="20" data-list-defn-props="{" data-aria-posinset="5" data-aria-level="1"><p><span lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto">Databricks or Azure certification (Data Engineer Professional, Azure Solutions Architect Expert).</span><span data-ccp-props="{}">&nbsp;</span></p></li></ul></div><div><ul role="list"><li role="listitem" aria-setsize="-1" data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="20" data-list-defn-props="{" data-aria-posinset="6" data-aria-level="1"><p><span lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto">Prior platform owner or technical lead experience.</span></p></li></ul></div></div></div></div><div><div><div><div><div><p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>What We Offer You:</strong>&nbsp;</span></p></div><div><ul><li><p>Highly competitive compensation plan.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><p>Salary range $220,000-$250,000 annually determined by a myriad of factors including, but not limited to, years of experience, depth of experience, and other relevant business considerations.&nbsp;</p></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><p>Employees are eligible for annual discretionary bonus.&nbsp;</p></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><p>401(k) plan with company match.&nbsp;</p></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><p>Employee Share Purchase Plan (ESPP)&nbsp;Viking full-time regular employees working in the United States can&nbsp;purchase&nbsp;Viking shares through payroll deductions.&nbsp;</p></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><p>Full benefits including medical, dental, vision,&nbsp;life&nbsp;and disability insurance at a highly subsidized rate (some plans are fully paid by Viking).&nbsp;</p></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><p>Accrue 15 paid vacation days, sick time accrual by state, and 6 paid holidays per year.&nbsp;</p></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><p>Opportunity to take a free and/or discounted cruise.&nbsp;</p></li></ul></div><div><ul><li><p>Highly subsidized gym membership.&nbsp;</p></li></ul></div></div><div><div><ul><li><p>Discounts on theatres, theme parks, movie tickets, travel discounts through IATA membership and too many more discounts to name.&nbsp;</p></li></ul></div><div><p>Viking is a certified Great Place to Work company. This certification is a result of our commitment to excellence,&nbsp;integrity&nbsp;and our teams&rsquo; outstanding contributions.&nbsp;</p></div><div><p><strong>About Viking&nbsp;</strong></p></div><div><p>Viking (NYSE: VIK) is a global leader in experiential travel with a fleet of more than 100 ships, exploring 21 rivers, five oceans and all seven continents. Designed for curious travelers with interests in science, history, culture and cuisine, Chairman and CEO Torstein Hagen often says Viking offers experiences For The Thinking Person&trade;. Viking has more than 450 awards to its name, including being rated #1 for Rivers and #1 for Oceans five years in a row by Cond&eacute; Nast Traveler in the 2025 Readers&rsquo; Choice Awards. Viking is also rated a &ldquo;World&rsquo;s Best&rdquo; by Travel + Leisure&mdash;no other travel company has simultaneously received such honors by both publications.  &nbsp;</p></div><div>&nbsp;</div></div></div></div></div>