Staff Data Engineer (Azure Databricks Platform)

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Position SummaryStaff Data Engineer-Azure Databricks PlatformWe're looking for a highly skilled Platform Staff Engineer to lead the development andmaintenance of our Databricks platform, supporting our healthcare delivery initiatives.You will be a hands-on leader, responsible for the architecture, implementation, and operationalexcellence of our data platform. You will be responsible for ensuring the platform's reliability,performance, and security, while also driving its strategic evolution to meet future businessneeds. This position requires a blend of deep technical expertise, a proactive mindset, and acommitment to operational excellence.This role sits at the intersection of platform engineering, cloud engineering, data governance,and developer enablement, requiring a blend of deep technical expertise, strategic thinking, anda passion for building scalable, reliable, and secure systems.You will be a trusted partner for our data engineers ensuring they have the tools and bestpractices to drive business value.Responsibilities● Operational Excellence: Oversee the operational health of the platform. Maintain andenhance monitoring, logging, and alerting solutions to proactively identify and resolveissues. Lead incident response and perform root cause analysis for platform-wideproblems.● Platform Architecture & Strategy: Maintain and enhance the core components of ourAzure Databricks environment. Define the strategic roadmap for the platform, includingthe adoption of new features, services, and best practices (e.g., Delta Lake, UnityCatalog, Databricks Workflows. Github CI/CD).● Security & Governance: Manage the enforcement and enhancement of data securityand governance policies. Manage the Unity Catalog to ensure fine-grained accesscontrol, data lineage, and compliance with internal and external regulations.● Performance & Cost Optimization: Implement strategies for cost management andperformance tuning at a platform level. Provide guidance and tooling to optimizeDatabricks clusters and workloads to maximize efficiency and minimize cloud spend.● Tooling & Automation: Maintain and enhance automated solutions for provisioning,scaling, and managing Databricks workspaces and resources using Infrastructure asCode (Terraform) and CI/CD pipelines (GitHub).● Developer Enablement: Serve as a subject matter expert and mentor to other dataengineers and Azure databricks platform engineers. Develop and advocate for bestpractices, create reusable patterns and libraries, and provide expert-level technicalsupport and training to data teams.● Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with data engineering and business teams tounderstand their needs and maintain and enhance a platform that empowers them. …