Senior Databricks Administrator

Location – Washington, DC - Onsite

Need only USC / GC Holders

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• Should have Minimum 10+ years of experience
• Bachelor’s degree with 7+ years cloud/data platform experience, including 3+ years administering Databricks.
• Serve as the technical owner of the Databricks platform, ensuring secure, reliable, compliant, and cost-efficient operations across SDLC environments.
• Administer work spaces, clusters, SQL warehouses, jobs, repos, runtimes, and serverless compute using Databricks CLI, APIs, and Terraform.
• Lead Unity Catalog governance including metastores, catalogs/schemas, grants, service principals, and governed storage access.
• Enforce IAM, RBAC, SSO/SCIM provisioning, secrets management, audit logging, and least-privilege security controls.
• Implement monitoring, alerting, CI/CD pipelines (DABs), and automation for configuration and deployment management.
• Optimize performance and cost through cluster policies, auto-scaling, Delta Lake tuning, and Fin Ops best practices.
• Support data engineering workloads (DLT pipelines, SQL tuning, ETL troubleshooting) and manage BI/tool integrations.
• Coordinate with cloud/network teams (AWS IAM, VPC, Private Link, S3, KMS) to ensure secure connectivity and compliance.
• Maintain documentation, runbooks, change management processes, and incident/SLA reporting.