Azure Databricks Platform Lead & Governance

EXL; United States; On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

EXL Analytics seeks an experienced Databricks Administrator to own and operate our Databricks Lakehouse environments end to end on Azure. You will manage Unity Catalog governance, security, access controls, and compute resources, while partnering with data engineering, data science, and cloud infrastructure teams to deliver a secure, scalable analytics platform.

You will also implement IaC with Terraform, maintain cost controls, and drive performance improvements through workload tuning and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a technical field or equivalent experience.
• Proven hands-on experience administering Databricks in production on Azure.
• Strong knowledge of Unity Catalog and Hive metastore migrations.

Responsibilities

• Own and operate Databricks Lakehouse environments end to end.
• Manage Unity Catalog governance, security, and access control.
• Configure network security, data protection, and cost optimization.
• Collaborate with data engineering, data science, and cloud infra teams.
• Maintain platform documentation and runbooks.

Skills

Databricks administration

Azure Databricks

Unity Catalog

Security & IAM Entra ID

Terraform / IaC

SQL / Python / Spark

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

Terraform

Databricks CLI

GitHub Actions

Job description

EXL Analytics seeks an experienced Databricks Administrator to own and operate our Databricks Lakehouse environments end to end on Azure. You will manage Unity Catalog governance, security, access controls, and compute resources, while partnering with data engineering, data science, and cloud infrastructure teams to deliver a secure, scalable analytics platform.

You will also implement IaC with Terraform, maintain cost controls, and drive performance improvements through workload tuning and