Director, Data Platform Engineering & Cloud Lakehouse

Vizient, Inc.; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 135,000 - 237,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive benefits plan

Job summary

Vizient, Inc. is seeking an experienced leader to define and drive the enterprise data platform strategy across Azure Databricks and SQL Server. You will lead platform engineering teams to deliver secure, scalable data services and advance Platform-as-a-Product practices with IaC and CI/CD automation.

The role focuses on modernization of data platforms, governance collaboration, and enabling analytics, ML, AI, and operational reporting at scale within Vizient.

Qualifications

• Experience defining and executing enterprise data platform strategy and roadmaps.
• Leading platform engineering and administration teams for reliable data services.
• Experience with Azure Databricks, SQL Server, and related Azure data technologies.
• Ability to implement Platform-as-a-Product, IaC, CI/CD, and self-service capabilities.
• Experience modernizing data platforms and migrating workloads to Azure and Lakehouse architectures.
• Establish platform governance, security, and compliance in collaboration with governance teams.
• Ability to enable analytics, ML, AI, and operational reporting platform capabilities.
• Track record in establishing SLAs, metrics, monitoring, and incident management.
• Experience managing platform budgets, vendor relationships, and FinOps.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute enterprise data platform strategy, architecture, and multi-year roadmaps with a focus on Azure Databricks, Microsoft SQL Server, and related Azure data technologies.
• Lead platform engineering and administration teams to deliver reliable, secure, scalable, observable, and high-performing enterprise data services.
• Drive Azure Databricks platform engineering, including platform architecture, administration, Unity Catalog, Delta Lake, MLflow, access controls, workload management, automation, observability, performance, and cost optimization.
• Establish Platform-as-a-Product practices, reusable engineering patterns, Infrastructure-as-Code, CI/CD automation, and self-service capabilities that improve engineering productivity and platform adoption.
• Lead modernization of enterprise data platforms and migration of appropriate workloads to Azure and Lakehouse architectures while strengthening resilience, disaster recovery, and operational readiness.
• Establish platform governance, security, data classification, lineage, auditing, access management, and compliance controls in collaboration with Data Governance, Security, IAM, and Enterprise Architecture teams.
• Enable scalable platform capabilities for analytics, data products, machine learning, AI, and operational reporting.
• Establish service-level objectives, operational metrics, monitoring, incident management, capacity planning, and continuous improvement practices.
• Manage platform investments, budgets, capacity forecasts, vendor relationships, licensing, and FinOps practices to optimize technology consumption and operational costs.
• Develop and mentor engineering leaders and technical teams while fostering collaboration, automation, innovation, and operational excellence.

Skills

Azure Databricks

Unity Catalog

Delta Lake

MLflow

CI/CD

Infrastructure as Code

Platform engineering

Azure data technologies

FinOps

Tools

SQL Server

Azure

Power BI

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Vizient, Inc. is seeking an experienced leader to define and drive the enterprise data platform strategy across Azure Databricks and SQL Server. You will lead platform engineering teams to deliver secure, scalable data services and advance Platform-as-a-Product practices with IaC and CI/CD automation.

The role focuses on modernization of data platforms, governance collaboration, and enabling analytics, ML, AI, and operational reporting at scale within Vizient.