Senior Databricks Platform Admin: Lakehouse & IAM

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. You will architect, develop, optimize, and maintain high-performance data ingestion, transformation, streaming, and analytical pipelines within Databricks‑enabled Lakehouse environments.

You will work closely with federal teams and cross-task platform, SRE, governance, privacy, and development personnel. The role requires hands-on configuration of clusters and policies, IAM, and data access audits,

Qualifications

• Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance.
• Databricks Platform Administrator accreditation required.
• Five or more years of recent experience administering cloud-based data platforms, including workspace configuration, identity/access management, and compute governance.

Responsibilities

• Architect, develop, optimize and maintain high-performance Databricks data pipelines and Lakehouse environments.
• Collaborate with federal technical teams and cross-functional platform teams (SRE, governance, privacy, development).
• Configure cluster/job, pipeline and SQL warehouse policies; manage secret scopes and access controls.

Skills

Cluster policies

Secret scopes

IAM SCIM/REST

Observability tools

Access audits

Workspace/workspace mgmt

User/groups/service principals

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IS/Engineering

5+ years equivalent experience

Tools

Databricks

Unity Catalog

AWS

Azure

Job description

SiloSmashers, Inc. is hiring a Databricks Platform Administrator to support a government customer. You will architect, develop, optimize, and maintain high-performance data ingestion, transformation, streaming, and analytical pipelines within Databricks‑enabled Lakehouse environments.

You will work closely with federal teams and cross-task platform, SRE, governance, privacy, and development personnel. The role requires hands-on configuration of clusters and policies, IAM, and data access audits,