Lead Databricks Platform Engineer

How Youll Make an Impact

A subsidiary of Publicis Groupe Epsilon powers data-driven marketing at massive scale for some of the worlds leading brands.

Were hiring a Lead Databricks Administrator to own and evolve our Databricks platform across cloud environments. This is a high-impact role focused on driving platform standards strengthening governance and improving reliability across enterprise data systems. Youll support large-scale Data Lake environments across AWS Azure and GCP helping enable critical data operations for key clients.

What Youll Achieve:

• Lead and scale Databricks platform administration across enterprise workspaces and multi-cloud environments (AWS Azure GCP)
• Establish and enforce standards for workspace provisioning access controls compute configuration and governance to improve platform consistency and stability
• Drive operational excellence by implementing repeatable processes automation and best practices across Databricks environments
• Strengthen platform reliability performance and cost efficiency through proactive monitoring optimization and issue resolution
• Partner cross-functionally with Engineering Security Cloud and Operations teams to ensure secure compliant and scalable platform architecture
• Own and improve identity and access management practices (least privilege group management service principals admin controls)
• Lead troubleshooting and resolution of complex issues across Databricks cloud infrastructure networking and data workloads
• Evaluate and adopt new Databricks capabilities to enhance governance scalability and operational efficiency
• Build and maintain documentation runbooks and platform standards to support long-term maintainability and audit readiness
• Mentor team members and promote best practices to elevate overall platform maturity
• Support production operations incident response and ongoing platform health in a high-impact enterprise environment

What Youll Bring with You :

• BS in Computer Science or related technical discipline or equivalent practical experience
• 7 years of experience in data platform database administration or cloud infrastructure roles
• 3 years of hands-on experience administering Databricks (workspaces clusters jobs SQL Warehouses platform services)
• Strong expertise in:
• Databricks workspace and account management
• Platform governance access controls and administration best practices
• Compute configuration cluster policies and workload optimization
• Experience supporting Databricks across AWS Azure or GCP environments
• Hands-on experience with infrastructure provisioning and automation (Terraform APIs scripting CI/CD pipelines)
• Strong understanding of identity and access management:
• SSO SCIM provisioning RBAC
• Service principals group management least privilege models
• Working knowledge of Unity Catalog data governance frameworks and secure data access patterns
• Experience implementing and maintaining platform standards (naming conventions provisioning workflows configuration baselines access controls)
• Proven ability to monitor troubleshoot and optimize platform performance reliability and cost efficiency
• Experience diagnosing issues across Databricks cloud infrastructure networking identity and data pipelines
• Strong SQL Unix/Linux and scripting skills; Python or Scala is a plus
• Experience building and maintaining documentation runbooks and operational processes to support audit readiness and platform scalability
• Familiarity with incident response change management and production support in enterprise environments
• Ability to operate independently manage multiple priorities and contribute to a high-ownership cross-functional environment
• Strong communication skills with the ability to work effectively across engineering security and platform teams

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When You Join Us Well Create Something EPIC Together
Epsilon is a global data technology and services company that powers the marketing and advertising ecosystem. For decades weve provided marketers from the worlds leading brands the data technology and services they need to engage consumers with 1 View 1 Vision and 1 Voice. 1 View of their universe of potential buyers. 1 Vision for engaging each individual. And 1 Voice to harmonize engagement across paid owned and earned channels.

Epsilons comprehensive portfolio of capabilities across our suite of digital media messaging and loyalty solutions bridge the divide between marketing and advertising technology. We process 400 billion consumer actions each day using advanced AI and hold many patents of proprietary technology including real-time modeling languages and consumer privacy advancements. Thanks to the work of every employee Epsilon has been consistently recognized as industry-leading by Forrester Adweek and the MRC. Epsilon is a global company with more than 9000 employees around the world.

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As an Epsilon employee you deserve perks and benefits that put you your family and your finances first. Our benefits encompass a wide range of offerings including but not limited to the following:

• Time to Recharge: Flexible time off (FTO) 15 paid holidays
• Time to Recover: Paid sick time
• Family Well-Being: Parental/new child leave childcare & elder care assistance adoption assistance
• Extra Perks: Comprehensive health coverage 401(k) tuition assistance commuter benefits professional development employee recognition charitable donation matching health coaching and counseling

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