Head of Enterprise Data Platforms & Platform Engineering

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

Job summary

Vizient, based in the Chicago area, seeks a senior leader to define and drive the enterprise data platform strategy across Azure Databricks and related technologies. You will lead platform engineering and administration teams to deliver scalable, secure data services and drive platform governance, incident management, and cost optimization.

The role focuses on platform-as-a-product practices, modernization of data platforms, and collaboration with governance, IAM, and enterprise architecture

Qualifications

• Experience defining and executing enterprise data platform strategies.
• Proven leadership of platform engineering teams.
• Strong Azure data technology expertise.
• Ability to establish Platform-as-a-Product practices.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute enterprise data platform strategy, architecture, and roadmaps.
• Lead platform engineering and administration teams to deliver reliable data services.
• Drive Azure Databricks platform engineering including Unity Catalog, Delta Lake, MLflow.
• Establish platform governance, security, data lineage, and compliance.
• Enable analytics, data products, ML and AI capabilities.
• Manage budgets, vendor relationships, FinOps.
• Mentor engineering leaders and teams.
• Establish SLAs and operational metrics.

Skills

Azure Databricks

SQL Server

Cloud architecture

Platform as Product

CI/CD

Tools

Unity Catalog

Delta Lake

MLflow

Job description

Vizient, based in the Chicago area, seeks a senior leader to define and drive the enterprise data platform strategy across Azure Databricks and related technologies. You will lead platform engineering and administration teams to deliver scalable, secure data services and drive platform governance, incident management, and cost optimization.

The role focuses on platform-as-a-product practices, modernization of data platforms, and collaboration with governance, IAM, and enterprise architecture