Azure Databricks Platform Admin: Governance & Security

White & Case LLP; New York; Hybrid; USD 98,000 - 146,000; Full time

Job summary

White & Case LLP is seeking an experienced technology platform engineer to administer Azure Databricks across development, test and production, ensuring governance and security. The role focuses on RBAC, Unity Catalog, Key Vault integration, and cost optimization while collaborating with Infrastructure, Security and Data Engineering teams.

You will oversee monitoring, onboarding, and adoption of analytics workloads, align with enterprise platforms, and support AI integrations such as Azure

Qualifications

• 3-5+ years of experience supporting Azure and enterprise data platforms.
• Strong knowledge of Azure Databricks administration, security, cluster governance 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.

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, 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.

Skills

Azure Databricks administration

Azure security and Entra ID

CI/CD & IaC (Terraform)

GitHub & Azure DevOps

Data governance & Purview

Lakehouse & Delta Lake

Microsoft Fabric

Cost management & monitoring

Tools

Terraform

GitHub

Azure DevOps

Azure Monitor

Key Vault

Job description

White & Case LLP is seeking an experienced technology platform engineer to administer Azure Databricks across development, test and production, ensuring governance and security. The role focuses on RBAC, Unity Catalog, Key Vault integration, and cost optimization while collaborating with Infrastructure, Security and Data Engineering teams.

You will oversee monitoring, onboarding, and adoption of analytics workloads, align with enterprise platforms, and support AI integrations such as Azure