Lead Data Platform Administrator

CLA is a top 10 national professional services firm where our purpose is to create opportunities every day, for our clients, our people, and our communities through industry-focused wealth advisory, digital, audit, tax, consulting, and outsourcing services. Even with more than 8,500 people, 130 U.S. locations, and a global reach, we promise to know you and help you.

CLA is dedicated to building a culture that invites different beliefs and perspectives to the table, so we can truly know and help our clients, communities, and each other.

We’re seeking a Lead Platform Administrator. This role drives operational excellence, reliability, and governance across the enterprise data and analytics platform. The role is operations-first, combining platform engineering, infrastructure governance, and incident management to ensure the platform is stable, scalable, secure, and production-ready always.

• Own day-to-day operations of the enterprise data platforms, ensuring high availability, performance, and resilience.
• Manage and optimize compute environments, including:
  • Kubernetes-based and Databricks compute platforms.
• Ensure platform architecture is operationalized, scalable, and aligned with enterprise standards.
• Provide escalated support and troubleshooting; oversee data governance, access control, and catalog services, including external access controls such as service principals, SQL warehouses, Delta Sharing, and equivalent platform capabilities.
• Drive cost optimization, capacity planning, and performance tuning across platform services.
• Ensure consistent provisioning and configuration of compute, networking, storage, and access layers.
• Govern environment consistency across dev / test / prod via automated deployment pipelines.
• Partner with engineering teams to eliminate manual operations through automation-first practices.
• Own incident management lifecycle: detection, triage, resolution, root cause analysis, and prevention.
• Lead response to critical platform incidents and escalations.
• Establish and maintain runbooks and playbooks.
• Define and enforce platform Dev Ops standards, including CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, environment promotion, and automated compliance controls across the platform ecosystem.
• Support controlled promotion of assets across environments with auditability.
• Lead implementation of monitoring and observability frameworks across Databricks, Kubernetes, APIM, and equivalent platforms.
• Oversee development of dashboards, alerts, and health checks.
• Ensure proactive issue detection and preventative maintenance.
• Provide leadership and direction for associate platform engineers and administrators.
• Partner with architecture, data engineering, and governance teams to align platform operations with business priorities.

6 years of relevant experience required; supervisory experience a plus.

Bachelor's degree is required. Combination of relevant experience, education, and training may be accepted in lieu of a degree. Degree in computer science preferred.

• Deep understanding of enterprise data, analytics, and compute platforms, including cloud data services, analytics tools, and Kubernetes environments.
• Ability to define and enforce platform standards for security, governance, automation, CI/CD, and operational excellence.
• Experience leading Dev Ops and platform engineering practices, including infrastructure-as-code and environment lifecycle management.
• Strong knowledge of cloud cost management, scalability, and reliability engineering.
• Ability to evaluate and guide adoption of emerging platform technologies.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities

To support our CLA family members, we focus on their physical, financial, social, and emotional well‑being and offer comprehensive benefit options that include health, dental, vision, 401k and much more.

To view a complete list of benefits please contact HR.