Databricks Lakehouse Leader (Hybrid)

UMGC; United States; Hybrid; USD 160,000 - 175,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous Time Off

Health Coverage

Insurance Options

Flexible Spending Accounts

Retirement Plans

Tuition Remission

Job summary

UMGC seeks a Senior Manager, Data Lakehouse to lead the design, implementation, and ongoing management of the enterprise data lakehouse and analytics platform. This role balances hands-on technical leadership with people management and platform operations in a hybrid setting.

You will oversee the Databricks Lakehouse, ELT/ETL, CI/CD pipelines, data governance, and security while collaborating with data scientists, analysts, IT, and business stakeholders to enable analytics and AI/ML enabled

Qualifications

• 7-9 years of experience supporting or delivering enterprise data and analytics platforms.
• 3+ years of experience leading data engineering or analytics teams.
• Higher education data environments; AI/BI integration preferred.

Responsibilities

• Execute and operate Data Lakehouse initiatives aligned with UMGC’s analytics strategy, ensuring the Databricks platform is reliable, secure, and scalable.
• Provide technical and people leadership to a team of data engineers and architects, supporting performance management and coaching.
• Oversee data architecture and engineering activities, including ELT/ETL and CI/CD pipelines and data integration across Bronze, Silver, and Gold layers.
• Monitor day‑to‑day platform operations, ensuring service levels and incident resolution.
• Implement data governance, security, quality, and compliance controls in partnership with security and legal teams.
• Collaborate with data scientists, analysts, IT, and stakeholders to deliver analytics and AI capabilities within governance standards.
• Evaluate and adopt new tools and platform enhancements to improve performance, usability, and cost efficiency.
• Manage delivery commitments, resource planning, vendor coordination, and cost optimization under oversight.

Skills

Databricks Lakehouse

enterprise data platforms

cloud analytics

data governance

Agile/DevOps

stakeholder management

offshore team management

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Information Science and Technology, Library and Information Science, Computer Science, Business Analytics, or a related field.

Tools

Databricks

Job description

UMGC seeks a Senior Manager, Data Lakehouse to lead the design, implementation, and ongoing management of the enterprise data lakehouse and analytics platform. This role balances hands-on technical leadership with people management and platform operations in a hybrid setting.

You will oversee the Databricks Lakehouse, ELT/ETL, CI/CD pipelines, data governance, and security while collaborating with data scientists, analysts, IT, and business stakeholders to enable analytics and AI/ML enabled