Azure Databricks Administrator

Phoenix Technology Partners, LLC; Tampa (FL); On-site; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare Stipend

Job summary

Phoenix Technology Partners, LLC seeks an Azure Databricks Administrator to own governance, security, and cost optimization of the Azure Databricks platform. You will integrate with Purview, Fabric, and AI solutions while supporting enterprise stakeholder needs.

The role requires strong governance, security, and cloud cost management, with hands-on experience across DevOps tools and IaC frameworks. Tampa, FL‑based on-site role with enterprise-scale responsibilities.

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 and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform), GitHub, and Azure DevOps.
• Experience with data governance, metadata management, lineage, and Microsoft Purview.

Responsibilities

• 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 and operational guidance to engineering teams; lead onboarding and access management.
• Ensure compliance with internal policies, regulatory requirements, and data protection standards.
• Integrate Databricks with Microsoft Purview, Fabric, and other enterprise platforms; support AI integrations.

Skills

Azure Databricks administration

Platform governance

Security posture

CI/CD & IaC

Terraform

GitHub

Azure DevOps

Azure Entra ID

Key Vault

Microsoft Purview

Cost management

Education

Experience with data governance and metadata management

Tools

Terraform

GitHub

Azure DevOps

Azure Monitor

Log Analytics

Job description

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

The roles and responsibilities of this job include:

• 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.