Lead Databricks Administrator

What you'll do

• Lead Databricks platform administration across enterprise workspaces, accounts, and cloud environments
• Define and enforce standards for workspace provisioning, resource naming, access controls, compute configuration, and operational governance
• Drive consistent administration practices across Databricks environments to reduce risk, improve supportability, and support long-term platform growth
• Partner with Product, Engineering, Security, Cloud, and Operations teams to align Databricks platform setup with enterprise security and compliance expectations
• Oversee workspace setup, cluster configuration, SQL Warehouse administration, job execution standards, and platform lifecycle management
• Support governance and access control processes, including least privilege access, group management, service principal usage, and admin access reviews
• Lead automation efforts for repeatable provisioning, configuration management, reporting, and operational controls
• Monitor platform health, usage, performance, and cost trends; identify opportunities for optimization and improvement
• Troubleshoot complex issues across Databricks, cloud infrastructure, identity, networking, data access, and workload execution
• Evaluate new Databricks capabilities and recommend adoption where they improve governance, scalability, security, or operational efficiency
• Maintain platform documentation, standards, runbooks, and operational procedures
• Mentor administrators and engineers, promote best practices, and help improve the maturity of Databricks platform operations
• Support production operations, incident response, and on-call rotation as needed

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience in database administration, data platform administration, cloud infrastructure, or related technology roles
• 3+ years of hands-on experience administering Databricks workspaces, accounts, clusters, jobs, SQL Warehouses, and related platform services
• Strong understanding of Databricks workspace management, account administration, compute configuration, access controls, platform governance, and operational best practices
• Experience supporting Databricks environments across one or more major cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP
• Hands-on experience with identity and access management concepts, including SSO, SCIM provisioning, RBAC, service principals, groups, and least privilege access models
• Working knowledge of Unity Catalog, data governance, secure data access patterns, catalog-level permissions, and data access auditing
• Experience implementing and enforcing platform standards such as workspace naming, group naming, resource naming, admin access controls, provisioning workflows, and configuration baselines
• Experience maintaining platform hygiene, including workspace reviews, admin access reviews, group cleanup, unused resource identification, and standards compliance
• Experience with infrastructure automation and configuration management using Terraform, scripting, APIs, CI/CD pipelines, or similar tools
• Ability to monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize Databricks workloads for performance, reliability, scalability, and cost efficiency
• Strong understanding of Databricks compute patterns, cluster policies, job execution behavior, SQL Warehouse usage, and workload isolation practices
• Ability to diagnose issues across Databricks, cloud infrastructure, networking, identity, storage access, permissions, and data pipeline execution
• Strong SQL, Unix/Linux, and scripting skills
• Python or Scala experience is a plus
• Experience in creating and maintaining operational documentation, runbooks, standards, procedures, and support guides
• Experience working with vendor support, internal engineering teams, and security teams to resolve issues within expected timelines
• Strong understanding of change management, SDLC practices, incident response, release coordination, and production support expectations
• Ability to work independently with minimal supervision while managing multiple priorities across client and platform initiatives
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• BS in Computer Science or related technical discipline, or equivalent practical experience

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