Senior Databricks Platform Engineer – Intelligence Lakehouse

Nasdaq, Inc.; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 148,000 - 211,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Job summary

Nasdaq, Inc. is seeking a senior Databricks Engineer to administer and scale the CAP Intelligence Platform, a centralized Databricks Lakehouse environment used across six business units.

The role emphasizes governance, compliance, and cost management in a regulated financial context. The candidate will manage Unity Catalog governance, Terraform-driven provisioning, and enterprise integrations, while collaborating with data stewards and workspace admins to enable self-service and reliable

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 5+ years of experience in data platform administration or cloud infrastructure.
• Hands-on Databricks at scale with Unity Catalog, workspace configuration, and compute management.
• Ability to deliver governance, compliance reporting, and cost management in a complex, regulated environment.

Responsibilities

• Administer and support a multi-workspace Databricks environment with Unity Catalog governance and enterprise integrations.
• Own platform-wide governance by monitoring catalog structure, metadata standards, naming conventions, and tagging requirements.
• Deliver monthly cost and usage reporting across workspaces, compute clusters, serverless workloads, and storage resources.
• Partner with workspace administrators and data stewards to enable self-service administration and maintain documentation.

Skills

Databricks administration

Governance & compliance

Cost management

Cross-functional communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related

Tools

Terraform

Unity Catalog

Job description

Nasdaq, Inc. is seeking a senior Databricks Engineer to administer and scale the CAP Intelligence Platform, a centralized Databricks Lakehouse environment used across six business units.

The role emphasizes governance, compliance, and cost management in a regulated financial context. The candidate will manage Unity Catalog governance, Terraform-driven provisioning, and enterprise integrations, while collaborating with data stewards and workspace admins to enable self-service and reliable