Administrator, Databricks

Duties and Accountabilities

The roles and responsibilities of this job include:

• Administer Azure Databricks workspaces across Development Test and Production environments.
• Define and enforce platform governance standards cluster policies naming standards and environment controls
• Manage security including Azure Entra ID integration RBAC Unity Catalog Key Vault integration private endpoints and network security.
• Monitor platform health usage reliability and compliance using enterprise monitoring and alerting tools.
• Optimize cloud consumption compute resources storage utilization cluster sizing and overall platform costs.
• Provide troubleshooting support root-cause analysis and operational guidance to engineering teams.
• Lead user onboarding access management training and adoption activities.
• Ensure compliance with internal policies regulatory requirements and data protection standards.
• Integrate Azure Databricks with Precisely Microsoft Purview Microsoft Fabric and other enterprise platforms.
• Support secure integration with AI solutions such as Atlas Legora Azure OpenAI and future AI platforms.
• Collaborate with Infrastructure Security Architecture Data Engineering and business stakeholders to align platform strategy.

Success Measures

• High platform availability and reliability.
• Improved governance and security compliance.
• Reduced cloud costs through optimization initiatives.
• Faster onboarding of analytics and AI workloads.
• Accurate metadata lineage and governance integration.
• Adoption of platform standards and best practices.

Qualifications

The qualifications for this role are:

• 35 years of experience supporting Azure and enterprise data platforms.
• Strong knowledge of Azure Databricks administration security cluster management and governance.
• Experience with Azure services including Entra ID Key Vault Azure Monitor Log Analytics Networking and Cost Management.
• Understanding of CI/CD Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) GitHub and Azure DevOps.
• Experience with data governance metadata management lineage and Microsoft Purview.
• Knowledge of Microsoft Fabric Lakehouse architecture Delta Lake and modern analytics platforms.

Salary Range

The New York salary range is: $97600 - 146400

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