Databricks DBA/Administrator/SME

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Skills

  • Access Control
  • Amazon Web Services
  • Analytical Skill
  • Analytics
  • Auditing
  • CISSP
  • Cloud Computing
  • Command-line Interface
  • Computer Networking
  • Computer Science
  • Continuous Delivery
  • Continuous Integration
  • Data Engineering
  • Data Governance
  • Database
  • Database Administration
  • Databricks
  • FISMA
  • FedRAMP
  • Git
  • IT Management
  • Incident Management
  • Information Security Governance
  • Information Systems
  • Management
  • Meta-data Management
  • NIST 800-53
  • Network Security
  • Optimization
  • Performance Tuning
  • Provisioning
  • Python
  • Root Cause Analysis
  • SQL
  • Scripting
  • Security+
  • Storage
  • Terraform
  • Unity
  • Workflow
  • Databricks workspaces
  • Databricks SQL
  • Databricks Data Engineer

Summary

Overview of the Role:

The Senior SME - Databricks DBA / Administrator serves as the senior technical authority for administration, security, governance, performance, and reliability of an enterprise Databricks environment supporting federal analytics workloads. The role combines hands-on platform administration with technical leadership, automation, operational support, and cloud/data governance expertise.

 

Essential Duties & Responsibilities:

  • Administer Databricks workspaces, compute, SQL warehouses, jobs/workflows, users, groups, service principals, policies, and platform configurations.
  • Administer Databricks SQL, Delta Lake objects, catalogs, schemas, tables, views, permissions, and performance tuning for large analytical workloads.
  • Implement and manage Unity Catalog governance, lineage, metadata, access controls, secure data sharing, and least-privilege permissions.
  • Automate platform provisioning and administration using Terraform, Databricks APIs/CLI, Python, Git, and CI/CD pipelines.
  • Integrate Databricks with AWS networking, IAM, storage, secrets, logging, monitoring, and enterprise security services.
  • Monitor platform health and cost, troubleshoot complex production issues, lead root-cause analysis, and establish operational standards and runbooks.

Qualifications:

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Engineering, Database Administration, or a related technical field.
  • 10+ years of database, data platform, cloud, or infrastructure experience, including significant hands-on Databricks administration experience.
  • Expert knowledge of Databricks administration, Databricks SQL, Delta Lake, Unity Catalog, advanced SQL, and performance optimization.
  • Strong AWS, IAM, networking, security, monitoring, Terraform, Python/scripting, Git, and CI/CD experience.
  • Experience with enterprise data governance, access control, audit logging, availability, incident response, and cost optimization.
  • Experience supporting federal or regulated environments and familiarity with FISMA, NIST 800-53, FedRAMP, and ATO processes.
  • Preferred certifications include Databricks Data Engineer, AWS, Terraform, CISSP/Security+, or comparable credentials.
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  • Dice Id: 91001581
  • Position Id: 9084601
  • Posted 3 hours ago

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