Data Platform Administration Architect

Qualifications

• 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.
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Incident Management
• Change Management
• Release 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.
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