diff --git a/.github/workflows/build_and_test.yml b/.github/workflows/build_and_test.yml
index 83db3ecb8102b..55791cedc6290 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/build_and_test.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/build_and_test.yml
@@ -261,8 +261,8 @@ jobs:
   # Build: build Spark and run the tests for specified modules.
   build:
     name: "Build modules: ${{ matrix.modules }} ${{ matrix.comment }}"
-    needs: precondition
-    if: fromJson(needs.precondition.outputs.required).build == 'true'
+    needs: [precondition, precompile]
+    if: (!cancelled()) && fromJson(needs.precondition.outputs.required).build == 'true'
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     timeout-minutes: 150
     strategy:
@@ -399,6 +399,20 @@ jobs:
       run: |
         python3.12 -m pip install 'numpy>=1.22' pyarrow 'pandas==2.3.3' pyyaml scipy unittest-xml-reporting 'lxml==4.9.4' 'grpcio==1.76.0' 'grpcio-status==1.76.0' 'protobuf==6.33.5' 'zstandard==0.25.0'
         python3.12 -m pip list
+    - name: Download precompiled artifact
+      id: download-precompiled
+      if: needs.precompile.result == 'success'
+      continue-on-error: true
+      uses: actions/download-artifact@v6
+      with:
+        name: spark-compile-${{ inputs.branch }}-${{ github.run_id }}
+    - name: Extract precompiled artifact
+      id: extract-precompiled
+      if: steps.download-precompiled.outcome == 'success'
+      continue-on-error: true
+      run: |
+        tar -xzf compile-artifact.tar.gz
+        rm compile-artifact.tar.gz
     # Run the tests.
     - name: Run tests
       env: ${{ fromJSON(inputs.envs) }}
@@ -409,9 +423,13 @@ jobs:
         # Hive "other tests" test needs larger metaspace size based on experiment.
         if [[ "$MODULES_TO_TEST" == "hive" ]] && [[ "$EXCLUDED_TAGS" == "org.apache.spark.tags.SlowHiveTest" ]]; then export METASPACE_SIZE=2g; fi
         # SPARK-46283: should delete the following env replacement after SPARK 3.x EOL
-        if [[ "$MODULES_TO_TEST" == *"streaming-kinesis-asl"* ]] && [[ "${{ inputs.branch }}" =~ ^branch-3 ]]; then 
+        if [[ "$MODULES_TO_TEST" == *"streaming-kinesis-asl"* ]] && [[ "${{ inputs.branch }}" =~ ^branch-3 ]]; then
           MODULES_TO_TEST=${MODULES_TO_TEST//streaming-kinesis-asl, /}
         fi
+        if [ "${{ steps.extract-precompiled.outcome }}" = "success" ]; then
+          export SKIP_SCALA_BUILD=true
+          echo "Reusing precompiled artifact, skipping local SBT build."
+        fi
         export SERIAL_SBT_TESTS=1
         ./dev/run-tests --parallelism 1 --modules "$MODULES_TO_TEST" --included-tags "$INCLUDED_TAGS" --excluded-tags "$EXCLUDED_TAGS"
     - name: Upload test results to report
@@ -541,6 +559,7 @@ jobs:
     needs: precondition
     if: >-
       (!cancelled()) && (
+        fromJson(needs.precondition.outputs.required).build == 'true' ||
         fromJson(needs.precondition.outputs.required).pyspark == 'true' ||
         fromJson(needs.precondition.outputs.required).pyspark-pandas == 'true' ||
         fromJson(needs.precondition.outputs.required).pyspark-install == 'true')