Databricks Platform Architect - Azure, Governance & FinOps

Paxus

Sydney

On-site

AUD 150,000 - 210,000

Full time

3 days ago

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Job summary

Paxus is seeking an experienced Platform Engineer to design and establish the enterprise Databricks platform foundation on Azure, enabling secure, governed, scalable, and cost-efficient workloads. This role focuses on workspace and environment architecture across multiple stages, with migration support from Synapse to Databricks.

You will implement CI/CD pipelines, IaC with Terraform, and governance strategies, while leveraging Databricks APIs and automation.

Qualifications

Strong Azure Databricks platform architecture and enterprise deployment experience.
Deep governance experience with Unity Catalog, access control, lineage, and data security.
Proven automation using Databricks-native capabilities and APIs.
Exposure to AI-assisted platform engineering and agentic tools is highly preferred.
Azure Solutions Architect Expert and/or Azure Databricks Data Engineer Associate certifications are a plus.

Responsibilities

Design workspace, compute, networking, security, and environment architecture across Dev, SIT, UAT, and Prod.
Define integrations with ADLS Gen2, Entra ID, Key Vault, Azure Networking, DevOps, ADF, Purview, Azure Monitor.
Establish CI/CD pipelines, Terraform IaC, Databricks Asset Bundles, and platform automation standards.
Define compute governance, performance, scalability, reliability, and cost-optimization strategies.
Support Synapse-to-Databricks migration with reusable patterns and standards.