Lead Databricks Administrator

Overview

A subsidiary of Publicis Groupe, Epsilon is a leading provider of multi-channel marketing services, technologies, and database solutions. We do more than collect and store data, and we might be the most important Internet company you’ve never heard of. Join our team for your chance to work in the digital marketing space and solve meaningful problems on a massive scale—and have fun doing it.

For this role, we are seeking a Lead Databricks Administrator with a balance of skills in database design, physical implementation, and performance tuning. You will be part of a team that supports cloud Data Lake environments implemented on AWS, Azure and GCP for some of Epsilon’s most prominent Database Marketing clients.

• Lead Databricks platform administration across enterprise work spaces, 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

• Able to lead platform administration efforts across complex, enterprise-scale Databricks environments
• Strong ownership mindset with the ability to drive standards, governance, and operational improvements from planning through execution
• Operationally disciplined, with a strong focus on platform stability, audit readiness, production support, and repeatable processes
• Comfortable working across Product, Engineering, Security, Cloud, and Operations teams to align on secure and scalable platform practices
• Focused on building consistent administration practices that improve reliability, reduce risk, and support long-term platform growth
• Proactive in identifying gaps in access controls, provisioning, platform configuration, monitoring, cost visibility, and operational readiness
• Strong attention to detail, especially around workspace configuration, identity integration, group management, permissions, and admin access controls
• Able to balance business delivery needs with enterprise security, compliance, cost, and supportability requirements
• Strong problem solver who can work through complex issues across Databricks, cloud infrastructure, identity, networking, data access, and workload execution
• Comfortable operating in production environments where platform decisions impact client delivery, data processing, performance, and availability
• Clear communicator who can explain technical risks, standards, and remediation plans to both technical teams and leadership
• Leads by example, mentors others, shares best practices, and helps raise the overall level of platform administration discipline

• BS in Computer Science or related technical discipline, or equivalent practical experience
• 7+ years of experience in database administration, data platform administration, cloud…