Databricks Platform Administrator

SiloSmashers; Arlington (VA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

SiloSmashers, Inc. is seeking a Databricks Platform Administrator to support government digital transformation, architecting, developing, and maintaining high-performance data pipelines in Databricks Lakehouse environments.

The role requires hands-on cluster/job and policy configuration, IAM, Unity Catalog, monitoring, and governance, with a Public Trust clearance and a Databricks Platform Administration certification.

Qualifications

• Five or more years of experience administering cloud-based data platforms, including workspace configuration and compute governance.
• Databricks Certified Platform Administration accreditation required.
• Experience with IAM, secret scopes, Unity Catalog, and access audits.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance.

Responsibilities

• Architect, develop, optimize, and maintain Databricks Lakehouse data pipelines.
• Collaborate with federal technical teams and cross-functional platform, SRE, governance, privacy, and development staff.

Skills

Databricks Platform Administration

Cluster/Job Policy Configuration

Identity and Access Management (IAM)

Unity Catalog

Platform Monitoring & Observability

Data Governance & Auditing

Secret Scopes & Security

Compute governance (Databricks/AWS/AZ)

Collaboration with gov teams

DBU usage & cost controls

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS / IS / Engineering or equivalent experience

Tools

Unity Catalog

Secret Scopes

Databricks SQL Warehouse

Job description

Position Description

SiloSmashers, Inc. is a leading management and IT consulting firm, serving as a trusted advisor and solutions partner to a diverse range of government, business, and not-for-profit organisations. Applying proven expertise and methodologies, we help our customers align and mobilise every aspect of their operations, strengths, and resources to achieve Peak Performance and increased business value today and through the years ahead.

Position Overview

SiloSmashers is hiring for a Databricks Platform Administrator to support digital transformation efforts for a government customer. The selected candidate will serve as part of a team responsible for architecting, developing, optimising, and maintaining high‑performance data ingestion, transformation, streaming, and analytical pipelines within Databricks‑enabled Lakehouse environments. This role is expected to collaborate closely with the federal technical teams, and cross‑task platform, SRE, governance, privacy, and development personnel.

Required Skills

• Hands‑on experience configuring and implementing cluster/job, pipeline, and SQL warehouse policies; experience working with secret scopes;
• Experience implementing SCIM/REST for identity and access management;
• Working knowledge of platform monitoring and observability tools and (e.g. Unity Catalog system tables, platform usage/DBU consumption, auditing user/group/service principal access and activity, Lakehouse Monitoring).
• Experience conducting access and sharing policy audits; validating user, group, and data‑asset permissions against data‑owner/steward‑defined policies and ensuring enforcement is applied consistently within and among enterprise platforms.
• Experience applying and enforcing tags for data and resources such as compute (SQL warehouses, classic compute, serverless compute, etc.), jobs, pipelines, and Databricks Apps.
• Experience managing workspaces, clusters/pools, jobs, Unity Catalog objects, secret scopes, and cluster policies.
• Experience managing user accounts, service principals, and groups.

Mandatory Qualifications & Requirements

• Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance.
• Databricks Certified Platform Administration accreditation required.
• Five (5) or more years of recent experience administering cloud‑based data platforms, including workspace configuration, identity/access management, and compute governance in Databricks, AWS, Azure, or equivalent environments.
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems, engineering, or a related field; or five (5) or more years of equivalent experience in lieu of a degree.
• This position requires regular, physical attendance at customer sites.