Databricks Platform Administrator — Modern Data Lakehouse

Buyers Edge Platform; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

Dental benefits

Vision benefits

FSA

401(k) with company match

Life insurance

Job summary

Buyers Edge Platform is seeking a Databricks Platform Administrator to own administration, governance, security and performance of our Databricks environment across AWS. You will partner with BI, Data Science, AI, DevOps and Security to ensure a secure, scalable data platform built for growth.

You will combine platform administration expertise with data engineering work, balance performance and cost, and drive migration of workloads to Databricks.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
• 3+ years of data engineering experience, including at least 2 years of hands-on Databricks experience.
• Experience administering a production Databricks environment with Unity Catalog, user permissions, governance, and cost management.
• Experience building and supporting AWS-based data solutions in a production environment.
• Experience migrating data workloads to a new platform.
• Databricks certification, including Data Engineer or Platform Administrator certifications, is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Administer Databricks workspaces, compute resources, user permissions, security policies, governance controls, and monitoring.
• Support and improve data infrastructure across Databricks and AWS (S3, Glue, EMR, Redshift, Aurora, DynamoDB).
• Lead migration of data workloads onto Databricks to support analytics, AI, and business operations.
• Define best practices, standards, and training for teams to improve performance and efficiency.
• Monitor utilization and cost, and identify optimization opportunities.
• Collaborate with BI, Data Science, AI, DevOps, and Security teams to enable scalable datasets and platform reliability.
• Provide platform support and timely issue resolution; after-hours support as needed.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend new tools to drive business value.

Skills

Databricks platform administration

Platform governance

Cost management

Cross-functional collaboration

Security

Data engineering

Python/Scala

AWS data solutions

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Information Systems or related field

Tools

Databricks

Unity Catalog

AWS (S3, Glue, EMR, Redshift, DynamoDB)

Terraform/CloudFormation

Git

Datadog

Job description

Buyers Edge Platform is seeking a Databricks Platform Administrator to own administration, governance, security and performance of our Databricks environment across AWS. You will partner with BI, Data Science, AI, DevOps and Security to ensure a secure, scalable data platform built for growth.

You will combine platform administration expertise with data engineering work, balance performance and cost, and drive migration of workloads to Databricks.