Senior Databricks Data Platform Engineer

Galent; Montreal; On-site; CAD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Galent in Montreal, QC seeks a Senior Databricks Data Platform Engineer to own architecture, lifecycle, and Unity Catalog across dev/test/prod. You will design compute strategies, manage upgrades, and build self-service templates to accelerate engineering teams; you will implement CI/CD pipelines with Terraform and GitHub Actions.

This role emphasizes cost optimization, storage performance, and GenAI-driven initiatives across the platform.

Responsibilities

• Own the architecture configuration and lifecycle Databricks environments across development test and production including workspaces account level settings networking and identity integration.
• Administer and evolve Unity Catalog including metastores catalogs schema's external locations storage credentials and fine-grained access controls.
• Design and enforce compute strategy across all-purpose clusters job clusters serverless compute SQL warehouses instance pools and cluster policies.
• Manage platform upgrades Databricks Runtime adoption feature previews and deprecations with minimal disruption to consuming teams.
• Build reusable platform templates starter projects and self-service capabilities that let engineering teams onboard quickly and consistently.
• Design build and maintain CICD pipelines for Databricks code and configuration using Databricks Asset Bundles Git folders and Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions.
• Codify platform infrastructure with Terraform Databricks and cloud providers ensuring every workspace cluster policy permission and Unity Catalog object is version controlled and reproducible.
• Implement automated testing code quality gates security scanning and promotion workflows from development through production.
• Establish branching release and rollback standards for notebooks jobs Delta Live Tables Lake flow pipelines and ML assets.
• Automate routine administration such as user and group provisioning SCIM secret management token rotation and environment drift detection.
• Design and deploy agentic workflows that automate platform operations such as job failure triage root cause analysis cost anomaly investigation and remediation recommendations.
• Build AI agents and tools on Databricks Mosaic AI Agent Framework Model Serving Vector Search and integrate them with enterprise systems through Model Context Protocol MCP.
• Use Copilot and Anthropic models to accelerate infrastructure as code pipeline development code review and documentation.
• Establish guardrails evaluation observability and human in the loop controls so agentic automation is safe auditable and trusted.
• Partner with data science and engineering teams to provide a governed platform foundation for GenAI RAG and ML workloads.
• Own Databricks cost visibility and accountability using system tables billing usage compute and query history tagging standards and chargeback or show back reporting.
• Identify and deliver savings through cluster rightsizing auto termination autoscaling tuning spot and reserved capacity strategies Photon and serverless evaluation and workload consolidation.
• Enforce cost guardrails through cluster policies budget s and compute governance that prevent waste without slowing teams down.
• Build dashboards and automated s that surface cost anomalies idle resources and optimization opportunities to engineering and finance stakeholders.
• Partner with finance and procurement on DBU commitments forecasting and capacity planning.
• Define and enforce Delta Lake storage standards including file sizing liquid clustering Zordering partitioning strategy and deletion vectors.
• Automate table maintenance using predictive optimization OPTIMIZE VACUUM and retention policies to control storage growth and improve query

Tools

Databricks

Terraform

GitHub Actions

Azure DevOps

Delta Lake

Job description

Job Title: Senior Databricks Data Platform Engineer

Location: Montreal, QC

Job Description:

• Own the architecture configuration and lifecycle Databricks environments across development test and production including workspaces account level settings networking and identity integration
• Administer and evolve Unity Catalog including metastores catalogs schema's external locations storage credentials and fine-grained access controls
• Design and enforce compute strategy across all-purpose clusters job clusters serverless compute SQL warehouses instance pools and cluster policies
• Manage platform upgrades Databricks Runtime adoption feature previews and deprecations with minimal disruption to consuming teams
• Build reusable platform templates starter projects and self-service capabilities that let engineering teams onboard quickly and consistently

CICD Platform Automation

• Design build and maintain CICD pipelines for Databricks code and configuration using Databricks Asset Bundles Git folders and Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions
• Codify platform infrastructure with Terraform Databricks and cloud providers ensuring every workspace cluster policy permission and Unity Catalog object is version controlled and reproducible
• Implement automated testing code quality gates security scanning and promotion workflows from development through production
• Establish branching release and rollback standards for notebooks jobs Delta Live Tables Lake flow pipelines and ML assets
• Automate routine administration such as user and group provisioning SCIM secret management token rotation and environment drift detection

Agentic Workflows AI Enabled Operations

• Design and deploy agentic workflows that automate platform operations such as job failure triage root cause analysis cost anomaly investigation and remediation recommendations
• Build AI agents and tools on Databricks Mosaic AI Agent Framework Model Serving Vector Search and integrate them with enterprise systems through Model Context Protocol MCP
• Use Copilot and Anthropic models to accelerate infrastructure as code pipeline development code review and documentation
• Establish guardrails evaluation observability and human in the loop controls so agentic automation is safe auditable and trusted
• Partner with data science and engineering teams to provide a governed platform foundation for GenAI RAG and ML workloads

Platform Cost Optimization FinOps

• Own Databricks cost visibility and accountability using system tables billing usage compute and query history tagging standards and chargeback or show back reporting
• Identify and deliver savings through cluster rightsizing auto termination autoscaling tuning spot and reserved capacity strategies Photon and serverless evaluation and workload consolidation
• Enforce cost guardrails through cluster policies budget s and compute governance that prevent waste without slowing teams down
• Build dashboards and automated s that surface cost anomalies idle resources and optimization opportunities to engineering and finance stakeholders
• Partner with finance and procurement on DBU commitments forecasting and capacity planning

Storage Performance Optimization

• Define and enforce Delta Lake storage standards including file sizing liquid clustering Zordering partitioning strategy and deletion vectors
• Automate table maintenance using predictive optimization OPTIMIZE VACUUM and retention policies to control storage growth and improve query

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