Senior Databricks Platform Admin & SME

SiloSmashers, Inc.; Alexandria (VA); On-site; USD 155,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

SiloSmashers, Inc. is seeking a Sr. Databricks Platform Administrator to architect, implement, and optimize Databricks‑enabled Lakehouse pipelines for a government client. You will work on ingestion, transformation, streaming, and analytics, ensuring performance and governance.

The role requires extensive cloud platform experience, Unity Catalog, and strong identity management. Regular customer-site presence is expected in Alexandria, VA, with eligibility for a Public Trust clearance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems, engineering, or related field; or five or more years of equivalent experience in lieu of a degree.
• Eight (8) or more years of experience administering cloud‑based data platforms, including workspace configuration, identity/access management, and compute governance in Databricks, AWS, Azure, or equivalent environments.

Responsibilities

• Architect, develop, optimize, and maintain high‑performance Databricks pipelines (ingestion, transformation, streaming, analytics).
• Collaborate with federal technical teams and cross‑task platform, SRE, governance, privacy, and development personnel.
• Manage workspaces, clusters/pools, jobs, Unity Catalog objects, secret scopes, and cluster policies.

Skills

Databricks Admin

IAM SCIM/REST

Platform monitoring

Access policy audits

Data governance

Tags management

Workspace administration

Identity management

Public Trust

Databricks Unity Catalog

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/IS/Engineering

5+ years equivalent experience

Tools

Databricks

AWS/Azure

Unity Catalog

Job description

SiloSmashers, Inc. is seeking a Sr. Databricks Platform Administrator to architect, implement, and optimize Databricks‑enabled Lakehouse pipelines for a government client. You will work on ingestion, transformation, streaming, and analytics, ensuring performance and governance.

The role requires extensive cloud platform experience, Unity Catalog, and strong identity management. Regular customer-site presence is expected in Alexandria, VA, with eligibility for a Public Trust clearance.