Position Summary
The Azure Databricks Administrator owns the governance, security, administration, optimization, and operational support of the Azure Databricks platform. The role ensures Azure Databricks is deployed and managed as a secure, scalable, cost-effective, and production-ready enterprise analytics and AI platform while supporting integration with Microsoft Fabric, Microsoft Purview, Precisely, and other enterprise AI solutions.
Duties And Accountabilities
- Administer Azure Databricks workspaces across Development, Test, and Production environments.
- Define and enforce platform governance standards, cluster policies, naming standards, and environment controls
- Manage security including Azure Entra ID integration, RBAC, Unity Catalog, Key Vault integration, private endpoints, and network security.
- Monitor platform health, usage, reliability, and compliance using enterprise monitoring and alerting tools.
- Optimize cloud consumption, compute resources, storage utilization, cluster sizing, and overall platform costs.
- Provide troubleshooting, support, root-cause analysis, and operational guidance to engineering teams.
- Lead user onboarding, access management, training, and adoption activities.
- Ensure compliance with internal policies, regulatory requirements, and data protection standards.
- Integrate Azure Databricks with Precisely, Microsoft Purview, Microsoft Fabric, and other enterprise platforms.
- Support secure integration with AI solutions such as Atlas, Legora, Azure OpenAI, and future AI platforms.
- Collaborate with Infrastructure, Security, Architecture, Data Engineering, and business stakeholders to align platform strategy.
Success Measures
- High platform availability and reliability.
- Improved governance and security compliance.
- Reduced cloud costs through optimization initiatives.
- Faster onboarding of analytics and AI workloads.
- Accurate metadata, lineage, and governance integration.
- Adoption of platform standards and best practices.
Qualifications
- 3 5+ years of experience supporting Azure and enterprise data platforms.
- Strong knowledge of Azure Databricks administration, security, cluster management, and governance.
- Experience with Azure services including Entra ID, Key Vault, Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Networking, and Cost Management.
- Understanding of CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform), GitHub, and Azure DevOps.
- Experience with data governance, metadata management, lineage, and Microsoft Purview.
Knowledge of Microsoft Fabric, Lakehouse architecture, Delta Lake, and modern analytics platforms.