Databricks Platform Engineer (AWS)

Job Description:

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Role Summary
We are seeking a Databricks Platform Engineer to implement and operationalize core platform capabilities on Databricks running on AWS. This role focuses on frameworks, automation, observability, and reliable delivery aligned to established platform standards.

Key Responsibilities - Platform Engineering
- Implement metadata-driven ingestion frameworks and standard ingestion patterns
- Build batch, incremental, and CDC ingestion pipelines
- Ensure pipelines follow platform standards for configuration, schema evolution, tagging, and error handling

Observability & Operations
- Implement pipeline monitoring, metrics, and alerting
- Support operational validation, failure simulation, and recovery testing

Data Quality & Governance
- Embed data quality rules and quarantine patterns
- Apply Unity Catalog tags (domain, owner, sensitivity, freshness) at ingestion time
- Ensure governance metadata is written to governed schemas

CI/CD & Automation
- Build CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions
- Support configuration validation, environment promotion, and rollback
- Ensure secret management via AWS Secrets Manager

Required Qualifications
- 5-8 years data or platform engineering experience
- 3+ years hands-on Databricks experience
- Strong PySpark and SQL
- Experience with Delta Lake, Unity Catalog, Git-based development

Preferred Qualifications
- Ingestion framework experience
- Monitoring and alerting implementation
- Production platform support experience

Success Measures
- Stable, reusable ingestion frameworks
- Reduced custom pipeline development
- Reliable CI/CD and proactive operational monitoring

Office Environment: remote US

Compensation at DXC is influenced by an array of factors, including but not limited to the experience, job-related knowledge, skills, competencies, as well as contract-specific affordability and organizational requirements. A reasonable estimate of the current compensation range for this position is $115,100 - $213,700.

Full-time hires are eligible to participate in the DXC benefit program. DXC offers a comprehensive, flexible, and competitive benefits program which includes, but is not limited to, health, dental, and vision insurance coverage; employee wellness; life and disability insurance; a retirement savings plan, paid holidays, paid time off.

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