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Job Title – Data Platform Administration Architect

Remote

Required Skills & Experience

- 10+ years of experience in enterprise data platforms, platform engineering, cloud infrastructure, platform administration, or data operations.

- Hands-on experience administering and supporting Databricks and Azure data platforms in enterprise production environments.

- Some experience in supply chain domain is good to have

- Strong expertise with:

- Databricks

- Azure Data Lake Storage (ADLS)

- Azure Synapse Analytics

- Azure SQL

- Azure Data Factory (ADF)

- Azure DevOps

- Azure IAM (RBAC, Service Principals, Managed Identities)

- Azure Monitor and Log Analytics

- Proven experience as a Data Platform Administrator, Databricks Administrator, Azure Platform Administrator, Platform Architect, or Platform Operations Lead, not solely a data engineer or application developer.

- Deep understanding of standing up, configuring, securing, governing, and supporting production and non-production Databricks environments.

- Experience managing platform provisioning, environment strategy, capacity planning, workload management, performance tuning, cost optimization, and operational support.

- Strong experience implementing and managing platform monitoring, observability, alerting, and operational dashboards.

- Proven experience managing enterprise production support processes, including:

- Incidents (INC)

- Service Requests (RITM)

- Change Requests (CR)

- Standard Changes (SCR)

- Emergency Changes (ECR)

- Problem Management

- Hands-on experience coordinating and leading enterprise release management activities, including release planning, deployment execution, rollback planning, deployment validation, and post-release support.

- Strong knowledge of ITIL-aligned operational processes, including:

- Incident Management

- Change Management

- Release Management

- Problem Management

- Service Request Management

- Knowledge Management

- Major Incident Management

- Experience resolving and leading response efforts for critical production incidents (P1/P2/P3), including executive communications and stakeholder coordination.

- Demonstrated experience creating and presenting comprehensive Root Cause Analysis (RCA) reports and corrective action plans following production incidents.

- Experience establishing support operating models, on-call rotations, escalation procedures, and operational readiness reviews.

- Strong experience with ServiceNow or equivalent ITSM platforms for managing incidents, changes, requests, approvals, releases, and audit requirements.

- Experience developing operational metrics, service-level reporting, trend analysis, and platform health dashboards.

- Experience designing scalable platform controls and operational processes to support enterprise data volumes and growth.

- Strong experience with CI/CD automation, deployment pipelines, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), and Azure DevOps best practices.

- Experience with cloud governance, platform security, access management, and compliance controls.

- Experience supporting SOX-compliant, regulated, or audit-driven environments.

- Ability to partner effectively with infrastructure, security, networking, application, and business teams to drive platform reliability and operational excellence.

- Proven leadership experience managing platform, operations, or engineering teams.

- Strong communication, stakeholder management, leadership, and problem-solving skills.

- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related field.

Preferred Qualifications

- Databricks Certified Data Engineer, Databricks Platform Administrator, or related Databricks certifications.

- Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate.

- Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert.

- ITIL Foundation or ITIL 4 Certification.

- Experience leading CAB meetings, release governance forums, or enterprise change management programs.

- Experience supporting large-scale enterprise Databricks and Azure data platforms across multiple regions and business units.

- Experience with observability platforms such as Azure Monitor, Datadog, Splunk, Grafana, or similar tools.

- Experience implementing enterprise platform governance, FinOps, security, and compliance programs.

- Experience leading cloud modernization, platform transformation, and operational maturity initiatives.

- Strong understanding of data governance, access governance, Unity Catalog, data security, and regulatory compliance requirements.

- Vendor management and strategic technology partnership experience.

Key Responsibilities

- Lead the administration, architecture, governance, and operational support of enterprise data platforms.

- Manage and support Databricks, Azure Data Factory, Azure Data Lake Storage (ADLS), Azure Synapse, Azure SQL, and related Azure services across production and non-production environments.

- Own platform reliability, availability, performance, scalability, security, and operational excellence.

- Define and maintain platform standards, environment strategies, monitoring frameworks, operational procedures, and governance controls.

- Oversee Change Management and Release Management processes, including CRs, SCRs, ECRs, deployment planning, release scheduling, rollback strategies, and post-release validation.

- Participate in CAB (Change Advisory Board) activities and provide technical assessment, risk evaluation, and deployment readiness recommendations.

- Lead production support activities, including resolution of Incidents (INC), Service Requests (RITM), Problem Records, and Major Incident Management processes.

- Coordinate cross-functional teams during critical production incidents and ensure timely restoration of services.

- Perform Root Cause Analysis (RCA) investigations and drive preventative and corrective actions to reduce recurring issues.

- Develop and maintain operational runbooks, knowledge articles, support documentation, escalation procedures, and disaster recovery plans.

- Establish and report on operational KPIs including platform uptime, SLA compliance, release success rates, Mean Time to Resolution (MTTR), incident trends, and platform health metrics.

- Implement and govern CI/CD processes, deployment automation, and infrastructure-as-code best practices.

- Ensure compliance with enterprise security standards, access governance policies, audit requirements, and SOX controls.

- Drive platform modernization initiatives, automation opportunities, cost optimization, and continuous service improvement efforts.

- Mentor platform engineers and administrators while providing technical leadership and architectural direction.

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