Databricks Platform Administrator

Forvis Mazars, LLP•Charlotte, NC

10d

About The Position

The Databricks Platform Administrator operates, secures, and continuously improves Forvis Mazars’ Databricks Intelligence Platform, which supports the firm’s data strategy and enterprise analytics and AI capabilities. The role is responsible for platform health and administration, with emphasis on security, access management, monitoring, governance, performance, cost optimization, and operational reliability. Working with data engineers, enterprise architects, security and cloud teams, and other technology partners, the administrator helps establish and automate platform standards, controls, and operating practices. The work enables teams to deliver data, analytics, and AI solutions securely and efficiently at enterprise scale.

Requirements

Five or more years of relevant technology experience.
Experience administering and supporting the Databricks platform.
Knowledge of Databricks security, Unity Catalog, role-based access control, attribute-based access control, identity management, and least-privilege access.
Experience with data governance, auditing, monitoring, lineage, and compliance controls.
Knowledge of cloud security, networking, encryption, secrets management, and private connectivity.
Experience working in a major cloud environment such as Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services, or Google Cloud Platform.
Experience with Terraform, GitLab, Jira, Azure DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, APIs, and platform automation.
Knowledge of Databricks compute resources, SQL warehouses, jobs, storage, performance optimization, and cost management.
Working knowledge of Databricks AI capabilities and security and governance considerations for AI and machine-learning workloads.
Strong troubleshooting, documentation, communication, and collaboration skills.
Ability to work effectively across Data Engineering, AI, Enterprise Architecture, Cloud, Security, and other technology teams.

Nice To Haves

Bachelor’s degree in information technology, computer science, engineering, data systems, or a related field.
Databricks professional certification.
Databricks platform administration experience in an enterprise environment.
Experience administering Databricks within Microsoft Azure.
Experience implementing Unity Catalog across multiple workspaces or business teams.
Experience automating Databricks platform deployments and configurations through infrastructure as code.
Experience supporting governed data, analytics, AI, or machine-learning platforms at enterprise scale.

Responsibilities

Administer and support the enterprise Databricks platform, including workspaces, compute resources, configurations, and platform services.
Manage platform security, identity, access controls, and least-privilege standards.
Administer Unity Catalog and implement secure, governed access to enterprise data.
Maintain platform monitoring, reliability, performance, availability, and operational support.
Establish and maintain standards for compute resources, cluster policies, runtimes, libraries, and platform configurations.
Monitor and optimize platform utilization, performance, and cost.
Automate platform configurations and deployments using Terraform, Git, APIs, and CI/CD practices.
Implement and support data governance, auditing, monitoring, lineage, and compliance controls.
Support cloud security practices, including networking, encryption, secrets management, and private connectivity.
Partner with Enterprise Architecture, Security, Cloud, Data Engineering, and AI teams to maintain enterprise platform standards.
Document platform configurations, operational procedures, technical standards, and troubleshooting processes.
Support security and governance requirements for AI, machine learning, and other AI-driven workloads.