Databricks Platform Administrator, Sr SME

Position Overview

SiloSmashers is hiring for a Databricks Platform Administrator to support digital transformation efforts for a government customer. The selected candidate will serve as part of a team responsible for architecting, developing, optimizing, and maintaining high ‑ performance data ingestion, transformation, streaming, and analytical pipelines within Databricks ‑ enabled Lakehouse environments. This role is expected to collaborate closely with the federal technical teams, and cross ‑ task platform, SRE, governance, privacy, and development personnel.

Required Skills

- Hands-on experience configuring and implementing cluster/job, pipeline, and SQL warehouse policies; experience working with secret scopes;

- Experience implementing SCIM/REST for identity and access management;

- Working knowledge of platform monitoring and observability tools and (e.g. Unity Catalog system tables, platform usage/DBU consumption, auditing user/group/service principal access and activity, Lakehouse Monitoring).

- Experience conducting access and sharing policy audits; validating user, group, and data‑asset permissions against data‑owner/steward‑defined policies and ensuring enforcement is applied consistently within and among enterprise platforms.

- Experience applying and enforcing tags for data and resources such as compute (SQL warehouses, classic compute, serverless compute, etc.), jobs, pipelines, and Databricks Apps.

- Experience managing workspaces, clusters/pools, jobs, Unity Catalog objects, secret scopes, and cluster policies.

- Experience managing user accounts, service principals, and groups.

Mandatory Qualifications & Requirements

- Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance.

- Databricks Certified Platform Administration accreditation required.

- Eight (8) or more years of experience (5 of which must be within the last 8 years) administering cloud ‑ based data platforms, including workspace configuration, identity/access management, and compute governance in Databricks, AWS, Azure, or equivalent environments.

- Bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems, engineering, or a related field; or five (5) or more years of equivalent experience in lieu of a degree.

- This position requires regular, physical attendance at customer sites.