Sr. Data Platform Operations Lead

Los Angeles, CA Technology and Operations – Data Management /Full Time /On-siteABOUT CIM GROUP:

CIM is a community-focused real estate and infrastructure owner, operator, lender, and developer. Our team of experts works together to identify and create value in real assets, benefiting the communities in which we invest. Back in 1994, our three founders focused on projects in Southern California neighborhoods. Today, we are a diverse team of 900+ employees with projects across the Americas.

Our projects have delivered jobs; created comfortable places to live, work, and relax; and provided necessary and sustainable infrastructure. Our focus on enhancing communities is unwavering, and we strive to make an even greater impact in the years to come. Join us and make an impact today!

POSITION

PURPOSE:

CIM Group is modernizing its enterprise data platform, migrating from a legacy Microsoft SQL Server estate to a Databricks Lakehouse architecture. The Data Platform Operations Lead is the operational owner of that platform — accountable for keeping it reliable, performant, and cost-disciplined for internal stakeholders and investors.

This is a hands-on role with a leadership edge. The successful candidate personally owns production support and day-to-day platform operations, owns the firm’s Dev Ops tooling and CI/CD practice for data, and partners closely with Infrastructure and Data Engineering on the foundation and security layers those teams own. The role requires strong technical judgment and the ability to drive outcomes across a matrixed organization, make decisive operational calls, and act as a trusted delegate of the Head of Enterprise Data Management.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

Production Support & Operational Reliability (Primary)
Own end-to-end incident and problem management for the data platform: detection, triage, resolution, and root-cause analysis across pipelines, jobs, and the downstream consumers.

Own job-failure remediation and recovery, restoring critical data flows within targets calibrated to the close and investor-reporting calendars.

Define and operate data freshness and data-quality monitoring, alerting, and SLA tracking against reporting deadlines.

Author and maintain runbooks, escalation paths, and on-call procedures; lead post-incident reviews and drive corrective actions to closure.

Carry on-call responsibility on a severity-based basis, with heightened coverage around quarter-end close and investor-reporting cycles.

Databricks Platform Administration & Operations Own day-to-day operations of the Azure Databricks Lakehouse: cluster policies, instance pools, SQL warehouse sizing, serverless configuration, and runtime currency.

Maintain workflow and Delta Live Tables pipeline reliability and performance at the platform level.

Note:

Unity Catalog data-object privilege administration is owned by Data Stewardship and Data Engineering; this role partners on the operational impact but does not own catalog grants.

Fin Ops & Cost Management Own end-to-end Fin Ops for the data platform: resource tagging, budget policies, and consumption monitoring via Databricks system tables, and keeping spend predictable and defensible.

Deliver cost transparency and chargeback/showback by business line, giving Fund Accounting, Portfolio Oversight, and other consumers visibility into what they drive.

Right-size compute (cluster policies, instance pools, SQL warehouse and serverless configuration) and drive continuous optimization of the platform's cost-to-serve.

Forecast platform spend, flag variances early, and partner with Finance and the Head of Enterprise Data Management on the platform budget.

Dev Ops & CI/CD Tooling Administer the Dev Ops toolchain for data — Git Hub organization, repositories and access, CI…