Databricks Platform Administrator, Sr. SME

SiloSmashers, Inc.; Alexandria (VA); On-site; USD 155,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

SiloSmashers, Inc. is seeking a Sr. Databricks Platform Administrator to architect, implement, and optimize Databricks‑enabled Lakehouse pipelines for a government client. You will work on ingestion, transformation, streaming, and analytics, ensuring performance and governance.

The role requires extensive cloud platform experience, Unity Catalog, and strong identity management. Regular customer-site presence is expected in Alexandria, VA, with eligibility for a Public Trust clearance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems, engineering, or related field; or five or more years of equivalent experience in lieu of a degree.
• Eight (8) or more years of experience administering cloud‑based data platforms, including workspace configuration, identity/access management, and compute governance in Databricks, AWS, Azure, or equivalent environments.

Responsibilities

• Architect, develop, optimize, and maintain high‑performance Databricks pipelines (ingestion, transformation, streaming, analytics).
• Collaborate with federal technical teams and cross‑task platform, SRE, governance, privacy, and development personnel.
• Manage workspaces, clusters/pools, jobs, Unity Catalog objects, secret scopes, and cluster policies.

Skills

Databricks Admin

IAM SCIM/REST

Platform monitoring

Access policy audits

Data governance

Tags management

Workspace administration

Identity management

Public Trust

Databricks Unity Catalog

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/IS/Engineering

5+ years equivalent experience

Tools

Databricks

AWS/Azure

Unity Catalog

Job description

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Databricks Platform Administrator, Sr. SME

Full Time Alexandria, VA, US

Salary Range: $155,000.00 To $170,000.00 Annually

SiloSmashers is hiring for a Databricks Platform Administrator, Sr. SME to support digital transformation efforts for a government customer. The selected candidate will serve as part of a team responsible for architecting, developing, optimizing, 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.

• 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.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance.
• Databricks Certified Platform Administration accreditation required.
• Eight (8) or more years of experience (5 of which must be within the last 8 years) 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.