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Azure Databricks Administrator
3Core Systems, Inc. Configure, maintain, and administer Azure Databricks workspaces and clusters across development, staging, and production environments .
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Demonstrates expertise in administering Azure Databricks workspaces, managing user access, and optimizing platform performance and security. Proficient in troubleshooting, operational governance, and ensuring compliance within cloud-based data environments.
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Azure Databricks AdministrationUnity Catalog ManagementCluster Performance MonitoringSecurity Governance and RBACPython and SQL Proficiency
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Hard Skills
Azure DatabricksUnity CatalogSQL Warehouse ManagementCluster ConfigurationPerformance OptimizationTroubleshootingPythonSQLPowerShellDatabricks CLI
Soft Skills
CollaborationProblem-SolvingCommunication
Tools & Technologies
AzureKey VaultREST APIsSCIM ProvisioningAudit Logs
Certifications & Qualifications
Databricks Platform Administrator Certification
Industry Keywords
Cloud-Based Data PlatformsOperational SupportGovernanceComplianceFinancial Services
Tech Stack
Tools & technologiesAzureCloudCyber SecurityFirewallsPythonSparkSQLUnityVault
About the role
Key responsibilities & impact- Configure, maintain, and administer Azure Databricks workspaces and clusters across development, staging, and production environments
- Monitor cluster health, performance metrics, resource utilization, and platform availability
- Optimize cluster, SQL warehouse, and workspace configurations for performance and cost efficiency
- Manage workspace governance, including job scheduling, notebook organization, audit logging, and operational standards
- Administer user access, workspace permissions, SQL warehouse configurations, and group-based security controls
- Troubleshoot infrastructure issues, performance bottlenecks, connectivity problems, and workload failures
- Support disaster recovery and high-availability planning, validation, and operational readiness
- Collaborate with data engineering, analytics, cybersecurity, compliance, and business teams on platform reliability, governance, security, and support
- Optimize Delta Lake performance and promote governed platform adoption
- Administer and enforce security policies, RBAC, encryption standards, and access controls
- Maintain documentation and runbooks for operational procedures
- Support capacity planning, cost optimization, and platform improvement initiatives
- Administer Unity Catalog permissions, metastore access, catalogs, schemas, tables, volumes, and external locations
- Manage workspace permissions, admin roles, service principals, groups, SCIM provisioning, and Microsoft Entra ID integration
- Configure and review compute policies, cluster permissions, instance pool access, SQL warehouse permissions, and job ownership
- Oversee secrets management, token usage, storage credential access, and Key Vault-backed configurations
- Coordinate recurring access reviews, access certification, and remediation of excessive, inappropriate, or outdated permissions
- Review Databricks audit logs, security events, access changes, and control findings
- Support audit and regulatory readiness by maintaining evidence for access controls, configuration standards, policy enforcement, operational procedures, and change management
- Partner with cybersecurity, compliance, risk, infrastructure, and data governance teams to align controls with financial services security, privacy, and compliance expectations
Requirements
What you’ll need- 5+ years of experience administering cloud-based data platforms or analytics environments, focused on operational support, governance, and reliability
- 3+ years of hands-on experience administering Azure Databricks workspaces, Unity Catalog, clusters, jobs, SQL warehouses, and platform settings
- Strong experience managing Databricks users, groups, workspace permissions, admin roles, service principals, SCIM provisioning, and Microsoft Entra ID integration
- Experience administering Unity Catalog, including metastores, catalogs, schemas, tables, volumes, permissions, storage credentials, and external locations
- Ability to configure and maintain compute policies, cluster permissions, instance pools, SQL warehouses, job ownership, and platform usage controls
- Experience monitoring Databricks platform health, cluster performance, job execution, workload failures, audit logs, and resource utilization
- Strong troubleshooting skills for Databricks platform issues, Spark workloads, connectivity problems, permission errors, and performance bottlenecks
- Working knowledge of Python, SQL, PowerShell, Databricks CLI, REST APIs, and automation practices
- Experience supporting operational controls, access reviews, audit evidence, change management, runbooks, and platform documentation
- Knowledge of Databricks security governance, RBAC, least privilege, encryption, secrets management, audit readiness, and secure data access patterns
- Understanding of Azure networking and security concepts, including private endpoints, firewalls, network security groups, storage access, Key Vault, and secure connectivity
- Experience partnering with data engineering teams to support reliable pipelines, workload troubleshooting, performance tuning, platform standards, and secure Databricks operations
- Valid U.S. work authorization that will not require employer-provided immigration sponsorship now or in the future
- All roles require travel during the first 6 months of employment to attend the BHG Oars in Experience
- Preferred: Databricks Platform Administrator certification or equivalent hands-on Azure Databricks administration experience
- Preferred: Experience supporting Databricks in financial services or another regulated environment
- Preferred: Experience creating runbooks, operational standards, monitoring procedures, access review processes, and administrator documentation
- Preferred: Background in database administration, cloud platform administration, or data platform operations supporting enterprise analytics workloads
Benefits
Comp & perks- Contract through end of March (firm end date)
- Remote position
- Approximately 5% annual travel after the initial 6 months for periodic team on-sites, team meetings, and cross-functional collaboration