Databricks Platform Engineer — Build Data Pipelines

RXinsider LTD.; Columbus, Northern (OH, KY); Hybrid; USD 107,000 - 178,000; Full time

Job summary

McKesson is seeking a Databricks Platform Engineer to build, maintain, and optimize a cloud-based data platform that supports analytics and data product development across the organization.

The role emphasizes platform administration, infrastructure automation, data ingestion, governance, and security, with collaboration across data engineers and stakeholders to ensure scalability and reliability.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related field.
• 4+ years of experience in Data Engineering, Data Platform Engineering, Cloud Engineering, or related disciplines.
• Experience administering Databricks environments.
• Experience with Terraform and Infrastructure as Code practices.
• Experience supporting Azure cloud services and infrastructure.
• Experience developing and maintaining data ingestion solutions.
• Strong SQL and troubleshooting skills.
• Experience supporting production environments and operational workloads.
• Understanding of data modeling, data governance, and modern data architecture concepts.

Responsibilities

• Administer and maintain Databricks environments for analytics and data engineering workloads.
• Manage platform configurations, cluster performance, capacity planning, and operational stability.
• Monitor platform health and troubleshoot performance, reliability, and operational issues.
• Support lifecycle management of platform resources across development, testing, and production environments.
• Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code solutions using Terraform.
• Support cloud-based data infrastructure within Azure environments.
• Implement automation to improve platform consistency, reliability, and operational efficiency.
• Partner with infrastructure and security teams to ensure adherence to enterprise standards.
• Build and support data ingestion frameworks and pipelines for reliable data movement.
• Collaborate with Data Engineers to optimize platform capabilities and data processing workloads.

Skills

Data engineering

Cloud engineering

SQL

Troubleshooting

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IS/Engineering

Tools

Databricks

Terraform

Azure

CI/CD

Job description

McKesson is seeking a Databricks Platform Engineer to build, maintain, and optimize a cloud-based data platform that supports analytics and data product development across the organization.

The role emphasizes platform administration, infrastructure automation, data ingestion, governance, and security, with collaboration across data engineers and stakeholders to ensure scalability and reliability.