Databricks Data Governance Architect

Northrop Grumman; United States; Hybrid; USD 142,000 - 213,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Life insurance

Disability insurance

Savings plan

Paid holidays

Paid time off

Job summary

Northrop Grumman is seeking a Databricks Data Governance Engineer to lead access control across our Databricks Lakehouse environment. The role, based in Falls Church, VA with telework options, combines hands-on engineering and architecture to implement RBAC/ABAC, tagging, and governance across data platforms.

You will define security architecture, handle identity governance, and translate regulatory requirements into scalable technical controls while collaborating with data and platform

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant discipline and at least 8 years as a Software Engineer or Data Engineer with a heavy focus on data platform security and security automation; Master’s degree and at least 6 years of relevant experience.
• At least 2 years of hands-on experience implementing Databricks Unity Catalog security features.
• Demonstrated experience designing and implementing RBAC and ABAC models at scale, including hands on experience with Databricks Unity Catalog, grants, dynamic views, row and column level filtering and masking.
• Fluency with identity and federation patterns including SCIM, service principals, and integration with enterprise identity providers such as Entra ID.
• Experience applying infrastructure-as-code practices, preferably Terraform to access, tagging, and policy management in Databricks.
• Proficiency in Python and SQL for automation, monitoring, and compliance.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and implementation of RBAC and ABAC within Databricks Unity Catalog, including data structure, access models, and tagging standards.
• Define the security architecture for data access, including dynamic views, row-level security, and column masking.
• Develop the identity governance approach for Databricks, including service principals, workload identities, and integration with enterprise identity providers.
• Translate regulatory, contractual, and compliance requirements into practical technical controls within the platform.
• Establish and maintain data classification standards and tagging structures that support scalable access control.
• Implement grants, catalogs, tags, and access controls as code using Terraform and/or Databricks Asset Bundles to support version control and audit readiness.
• Work closely with workspace administrators and platform engineers to align workspace, compute, secrets, and network controls with the broader data access strategy.
• Create guardrails, templates, and streamlined workflows that allow data engineers to manage access appropriately while maintaining strong security controls.

Skills

RBAC/ABAC design

Databricks Unity Catalog

Terraform

Python

SQL

Identity governance

Security automation

Education

Bachelor’s degree in a relevant discipline

Master’s degree

Tools

Databricks

Terraform

Job description

Northrop Grumman is seeking a Databricks Data Governance Engineer to lead access control across our Databricks Lakehouse environment. The role, based in Falls Church, VA with telework options, combines hands-on engineering and architecture to implement RBAC/ABAC, tagging, and governance across data platforms.

You will define security architecture, handle identity governance, and translate regulatory requirements into scalable technical controls while collaborating with data and platform