GDIT
Data Science and Data Engineering
DatabricksAdministrator/PlatformEngineer
“Databricks Administrator / Platform Engineer at GDIT. Skills: Databricks Platform, Databricks Unity Catalog, Data Governance, Platform Engineering. Administer and maintain Databricks workspaces. Manage Unity Catalog structures”
Industry & Context.
Troubleshoot platform issues
NACI (T1), Public Trust, US Citizenship Required: No
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
5 + years of related experience, 3+ years of hands-on experience administering Databricks in an enterprise environment, experience with Unity Catalog, workspace administration, permissions management, user/group access controls, and storage integrations, Practical data engineering experience using SQL, Python, PySpark, or Spark, understanding of Databricks security best practices, Experience supporting governance initiatives, Familiarity with AWS, Azure, or multi-cloud Databricks environments, Experience balancing hands-on administrative responsibilities with strategic advisory work, Must be able to obtain and maintain a Public Trust
Nice to Have
Databricks certifications strongly preferred, Experience advising on or implementing governance standards for curated or gold data products, written and verbal communication skills, including documentation and cross-functional stakeholder engagement, Familiarity with FinOps practices, platform cost monitoring, and workload optimization in Databricks, Experience with Databricks administrative capabilities, Experience with Terraform, Databricks CLI, CI/CD pipelines, or infrastructure automation, Exposure to Databricks analytics, reporting, model serving, or AI/ML platform capabilities, Familiarity with enterprise metadata, lineage, and tagging strategies in regulated environments, Databricks certification such as Data Engineer Associate/Professional or equivalent Databricks administration accreditation
What You'll Do.
Administer and maintain Databricks workspaces
Manage Unity Catalog structures
Support user provisioning
Define and enforce operational standards
Troubleshoot platform issues
Contribute data engineering expertise
Advise governance teams
Partner with security
and engineering teams
Support cost optimization efforts
Participate in platform design discussions
Create and maintain documentation
Provide platform-level guidance
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
technical advisor to governance, FinOps, and engineering stakeholders; Partner with security, cloud, and engineering teams; engineering collaboration
Communication Scope
written and verbal communication skills; cross-functional stakeholder engagement
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