Senior Databricks Platform Admin — Public Trust Ready

SiloSmashers; Arlington (VA); On-site; USD 130,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

SiloSmashers is hiring a Databricks Platform Administrator to support digital transformation for a government customer. You will architect, develop, optimize, and maintain high-performance data pipelines in Databricks Lakehouse environments.

Collaboration with federal technical teams and governance personnel is required. Required are 8+ years of experience with cloud-based data platforms, Databricks certification, and a degree or equivalent experience.

Qualifications

• 8+ years administering cloud-based data platforms with IAM and compute governance.
• Databricks Certified Platform Administration accreditation required.
• Bachelor’s degree in CS/IS/Engineering or 5+ years equivalent experience.

Responsibilities

• Architect, develop, optimize, and maintain high-performance data pipelines in Databricks Lakehouse environments.
• Collaborate with federal technical teams and cross-task platform, SRE, governance, privacy, and development personnel.
• Ensure security, access control, and governance across the platform.

Skills

Cluster & job policies

SCIM/REST

Monitoring & observability

Access audits

Tags & data governance

Unity Catalog

Workspaces & compute governance

User/service principal management

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IS/Engineering or 5+ years equivalent experience

Tools

Databricks

Job description

SiloSmashers is hiring a Databricks Platform Administrator to support digital transformation for a government customer. You will architect, develop, optimize, and maintain high-performance data pipelines in Databricks Lakehouse environments.

Collaboration with federal technical teams and governance personnel is required. Required are 8+ years of experience with cloud-based data platforms, Databricks certification, and a degree or equivalent experience.