Databricks Platform Administrator, Sr SME

SiloSmashers, Inc.; Arlington (VA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

SiloSmashers, Inc. is hiring a Databricks Platform Administrator to support a government customer.

The role focuses on architecting, developing, and maintaining high-performance data ingestion, transformation, streaming, and analytics pipelines in Databricks-enabled Lakehouse environments. The position requires regular on-site attendance in Virginia, a Public Trust clearance, and Databricks Platform Admin accreditation.

Qualifications

• Eight or more years of experience administering cloud-based data platforms including workspace configuration, IAM, 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 or more years of equivalent experience in lieu of a degree.

Skills

Databricks Platform Administration

Identity & Access Management

Security Monitoring & Governance

Workspace/Cluster/Secret Scope Mgmt

Policy Audits & Tagging Enforcement

Cross-functional Collaboration

Public Trust Eligibility

Cloud Platform Experience (AWS/Azure)

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IS/Engineering

5+ years equivalent experience in lieu of degree

Tools

Databricks

Unity Catalog

AWS/Azure Cloud Platforms

IAM Systems

Job description

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, 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.

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.
• - 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.