Senior Databricks Platform Administrator

Experience : 8-25

Job Type :
Contractual

Overview :

Job Title:

Senior Databricks Platform Administrator

Location:

Dallas,TX (Remote)
Duration: 12 plus months with possible extension

About the Role:

We are looking for a hands-on Databricks Platform Administrator to manage enterprise work spaces supporting data engineering, analytics, and AI workloads. The role focuses on platform operations, security, governance, automation, performance, and cost management.

• Administer Databricks accounts, work spaces, users, groups, service principals, compute policies, SQL warehouses, and serverless environments.
• Manage Unity Catalog, permissions, storage credentials, external locations, foreign catalogs, and data security policies.
• Troubleshoot platform incidents, authentication, connectivity, performance, and library compatibility issues.
• Plan runtime upgrades and support Snowflake-to-Databricks and UC-managed Iceberg migrations.
• Coordinate secure integrations with AWS S3, databases, APIs, and external partners.
• Administer AI capabilities, including model endpoints, AI Gateway, Genie, agents, and Apps, with appropriate access and consumption controls.
• Automate administrative processes using Python, SQL, APIs, SDKs, CLI, and Terraform.
• Support Git Hub and Jenkins deployment pipelines, monitoring, usage reporting, and cost optimization.

• 5+ years in data engineering, cloud operations, or platform administration, including 3+ years of hands-on Databricks experience
• Strong knowledge of Unity Catalog, access management, Databricks compute, and production operations
• Proficiency in Python and SQL, with experience automating through APIs or SDKs.
• Hands-on AWS experience with IAM, S3, and networking.
• Understanding of Delta Lake, Apache Iceberg, Git, and CI/CD practices. Strong troubleshooting, communication, and cross-team collaboration skills.

• Experience with Snowflake, Terraform, Jenkins, Git Hub, or Dagster.
• Familiarity with SSO, OAuth, AI platform administration, and MCP integrations.
• Relevant Databricks or cloud certifications.

Skills :

Senior Databricks Platform Administrator