POSITION OVERVIEW:
Responsible for designing, operating, securing, and optimizing the enterprise Lakehouse platform that powers analytics, AI, and data products Role evolves the traditional DBA discipline into a modern cloud-native data platform engineering function focused on reliability, governance, automation, scalability, and cost efficiency.
ESSENTIAL JOB DUTIES/RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Design, implement, and operate the enterprise Lakehouse platform (e.g., Databricks, Microsoft Fabric, or similar).
- Manage platform configuration, storage architecture, catalogs, schemas, and access controls.
- Administer governance capabilities such as Unity Catalog, Microsoft Purview, and enterprise security policies.
- Optimize platform performance, workload management, and query execution.
- Implement monitoring, observability, alerting, backup, disaster recovery, and service-level objectives.
- Develop Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform/Bicep) and CI/CD pipelines for platform deployment.
- Partner with cloud infrastructure teams on networking, identity, and compute.
- Enable data engineering, analytics, and AI teams through reusable platform capabilities.
- Manage platform cost optimization (FinOps) and capacity planning.
- Support regulatory compliance, auditing, and data protection requirements.
- Comply with all applicable laws/regulations, as well as company policies/procedures.
- Perform other duties as assigned
Disclaimer: This job description is general in nature and is not designed to contain or to be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities and qualifications required of employees assigned to the job.
QUALIFICATIONS:
- Bachelor's Degree in data science, computer science, information systems, or a related field.
- Five (5) years’ work experience in Data Platform Engineering, Cloud DBA, or related field.
- Experience providing leadership in a general planning or consulting setting.
- Experience as a leader or a senior member of multi-function project teams.
- Strong oral and written communication skills.
- Advanced experience conducting end-to-end analyses, including data gathering and requirements.
- Ability to provide leadership in a general planning or consulting setting.
- Ability to develop and act as a leader of multi-functional project teams.
- Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to present and communicate effectively to executive audiences.
JOB CONDITIONS:
- Some travel required