Senior Databricks and Snowflake Platform Administrator

Definitive Healthcare, India

Bengaluru

On-site

INR 1,800,000 - 3,000,000

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

Definitive Healthcare’s Analytical Wizards unit in Bengaluru seeks a Senior Databricks and Snowflake Platform Administrator to lead governance and automation across Databricks and Snowflake environments.

You will own Unity Catalog, Terraform-based IaC, RBAC/IAM, and cost optimization while partnering with DevOps and engineering teams to enforce platform standards and secure data access.

Qualifications

5+ years of Databricks administration experience.
5+ years of Snowflake administration experience.
Strong Terraform and IaC experience.
Experience with Unity Catalog governance and security.
Experience with RBAC/IAM, SSO, and data governance.

Responsibilities

Administer Databricks workspaces across dev, test, and prod.
Administer Snowflake accounts, warehouses, databases, and roles.
Own Unity Catalog governance and security controls.
Implement Terraform-based platform changes and GitOps pipelines.
Manage access reviews and enforce least privilege.

Skills

Databricks admin

Snowflake admin

Unity Catalog governance

Terraform

Multi-cloud (AWS/Azure)

RBAC IAM SSO

Python automation

SQL proficiency

CI/CD pipelines

Tools

Terraform

GitOps

Python

CI/CD tools

Job description

Senior Databricks and Snowflake Platform Administrator

Analytical Wizards is part of the Definitive Healthcare family. We balance innovation with an open, friendly culture and the backing of a long-established parent company, known for its ethical reputation. We guide customers from what’s now to what’s next by unlocking the value of their data and applications to solve their challenges, achieving outcomes that benefit both business and society. Our people are our biggest asset, they drive our innovation advantage and we strive to offer a flexible and collaborative workplace where they can thrive. We offer industry-leading benefits packages to promote a creative and inclusive culture. If driving real change gives you a sense of pride and you are passionate about powering social good, we’d love to hear from you.

Position Summary

The Senior Databricks & Snowflake Platform Administrator is responsible for the administration, security, governance, automation, and operational excellence of the enterprise data platform. This role owns Databricks workspaces, Unity Catalog, Snowflake environments, access management, metadata governance, infrastructure-as-code implementation, platform optimization, and cost management.

The administrator serves as the primary custodian of data platform governance, ensuring secure self-service access for engineering and data delivery teams while maintaining centralized control of catalogs, schemas, databases, permissions, and platform standards.

Key Responsibilities

Databricks Platform Administration

Administer Databricks workspaces across development, test, and production environments.
Manage clusters, SQL Warehouses, serverless resources, jobs, workflows, and workspace configurations.
Configure and maintain Unity Catalog, external locations, storage credentials, and data access controls.
Monitor platform health, performance, utilization, and costs.
Implement security controls, audit logging, and compliance requirements.
Partner with Engineering teams to establish platform standards and best practices.

Snowflake Administration

Administer Snowflake accounts, warehouses, databases, schemas, roles, resource monitors, and security policies.
Manage workload performance, query optimization, and warehouse sizing.
Implement Snowflake governance, access controls, and secure data-sharing processes.
Manage integrations between Snowflake, Databricks, cloud storage, and downstream applications.
Perform capacity planning and cost optimization activities.

Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)

In cooperation with DevOps team, own and maintain Terraform-based platform administration.

Responsibilities include:

Create and maintain Terraform modules for:
Unity Catalog catalogs
Schemas/databases
External locations
Storage credentials
Snowflake databases and schemas
Platform team owns catalogs, schemas, databases, storage credentials, permissions, and governance controls.
Engineering teams own only:
Tables
Views
Materialized Views
Data pipelines and code
Establish GitOps-based deployment pipelines for all administrative changes.
Ensure all platform configuration changes are version-controlled and auditable.

Identity & Access Management (Terraform Driven)

Own enterprise access governance for Databricks and Snowflake.

Responsibilities include:

Implement role-based access control (RBAC) using Terraform.
Manage user provisioning, group assignments, and entitlement policies.
Provision:
Unity Catalog grants
Snowflake roles and grants
Workspace permissions
Eliminate manual access assignment wherever possible.
Conduct periodic access reviews and remediation.
Maintain least-privilege access standards.

Unity Catalog Ownership & Governance

Serve as the primary owner of Unity Catalog governance.

Responsibilities include:

Define and enforce naming standards.
Manage catalog and schema ownership models.
Maintain metadata governance standards.
Implement data classification and tagging frameworks.
Manage:
External locations
Storage credentials
Catalog permissions
Drive cleanup and rationalization of unused assets.
Establish processes for catalog onboarding and retirement.

Hive Metastore Cleanup & Rationalization

Lead migration and cleanup initiatives to modernize Databricks governance.

Responsibilities include:

Inventory legacy Hive Metastore assets.
Identify:
Orphaned tables
Unused databases
Abandoned workloads
Lead migration of assets into Unity Catalog.
Implement archival and retention policies.
Remove obsolete datasets and metadata.
Reduce cloud storage costs through lifecycle management and cleanup activities.
Improve metadata quality and catalog discoverability.
Publish governance and cleanup metrics.

Data Governance & Compliance

Establish and enforce enterprise data governance standards.
Support audit and compliance requirements.
Implement data lineage and metadata management practices.
Maintain documentation for governance policies and platform standards.
Partner with Security and Compliance teams on platform reviews.

Platform Reliability & Operations

Manage incident response and root-cause analysis.
Develop operational runbooks and support procedures.
Maintain SLAs for platform availability and support.
Implement automated monitoring and alerting.
Plan platform upgrades and migrations.

Required Qualifications

5+ years of Databricks administration experience.
5+ years of Snowflake administration experience.
Strong expertise with Unity Catalog governance and security.
Strong Terraform and Infrastructure-as-Code experience.
Experience with Azure, AWS, or multi-cloud environments.
Deep understanding of:
RBAC
IAM
SSO
Experience automating platform operations via Python, Terraform, and CI/CD pipelines.
Strong SQL and data platform architecture knowledge.
Experience with data governance, cataloging, and metadata management.