Databricks Administrator

🕒 September 15

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

🖥️ Administration

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BHG Financial

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2001

💼 Consulting

🛡️ Insurance

💸 Finance

Consulting • Insurance • Finance

BHG Financial is a well-established financial services company dedicated to empowering professionals to take control of their finances. With over 20 years of experience, BHG Financial supports various industries that aim to make a positive impact. The company has cultivated a strong team culture and has won numerous awards, serving over 100,000 professionals across more than 30 states. BHG Financial is committed to maintaining its dynamic, growth-oriented culture while supporting nonprofit organizations through partnerships.

📋 Description

• Configure, maintain, and administer Azure Databricks workspaces and clusters across development, staging, and production environments • Monitor cluster health, performance metrics, resource utilization, and platform availability • Optimize cluster, SQL warehouse, and workspace configurations for performance and cost efficiency • Manage workspace governance, including job scheduling, notebook organization, audit logging, and operational standards • Administer user access, workspace permissions, SQL warehouse configurations, and group-based security controls • Troubleshoot infrastructure issues, performance bottlenecks, connectivity problems, and workload failures • Support disaster recovery and high-availability planning, validation, and operational readiness • Collaborate with data engineering teams to establish Databricks usage standards, support workload reliability, troubleshoot platform issues, optimize Delta Lake performance, and promote governed platform adoption • Administer and enforce security policies, RBAC, encryption standards, and access controls • Maintain documentation and runbooks for operational procedures • Support capacity planning, cost optimization, and platform improvement initiatives • Maintain Azure Databricks security governance standards in a financial services environment • Administer Unity Catalog permissions, metastores, catalogs, schemas, tables, volumes, and external locations • Manage workspace permissions, admin roles, service principals, groups, SCIM provisioning, and Microsoft Entra ID integration • Configure and review compute policies, cluster permissions, instance pool access, SQL warehouse permissions, and job ownership • Oversee secrets management, token usage, storage credential access, and Key Vault-backed configurations • Coordinate recurring access reviews, access certification, and remediation of excessive or outdated permissions • Review Databricks audit logs, security events, access changes, control findings, policy exceptions, and segregation-of-duties concerns • Support audit and regulatory readiness by maintaining evidence for access controls, configuration standards, policy enforcement, procedures, and change management • Partner with cybersecurity, compliance, risk, infrastructure, and data governance teams to align Databricks controls with financial services security, privacy, and compliance expectations

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years of experience administering cloud-based data platforms or analytics environments, focused on operational support, governance, and reliability • 3+ years of hands-on experience administering Azure Databricks workspaces, Unity Catalog, clusters, jobs, SQL warehouses, and platform settings • Experience managing Databricks users, groups, workspace permissions, admin roles, service principals, SCIM provisioning, and Microsoft Entra ID integration • Experience administering Unity Catalog, including metastores, catalogs, schemas, tables, volumes, permissions, storage credentials, and external locations • Ability to configure and maintain compute policies, cluster permissions, instance pools, SQL warehouses, job ownership, and platform usage controls • Experience monitoring Databricks platform health, cluster performance, job execution, workload failures, audit logs, and resource utilization • Strong troubleshooting skills for Databricks platform issues, Spark workloads, connectivity problems, permission errors, and performance bottlenecks • Working knowledge of Python, SQL, PowerShell, Databricks CLI, REST APIs, and automation practices • Experience supporting operational controls, access reviews, audit evidence, change management, runbooks, and platform documentation • Knowledge of Databricks security governance, RBAC, least privilege, encryption, secrets management, audit readiness, and secure data access patterns • Understanding of Azure networking and security concepts, including private endpoints, firewalls, network security groups, storage access, Key Vault, and secure connectivity • Experience partnering with data engineering teams to support reliable pipelines, workload troubleshooting, performance tuning, platform standards, and secure Databricks operations • Must already possess valid U.S. work authorization that will not require employer-provided immigration sponsorship now or in the future • Databricks Platform Administrator certification or equivalent hands-on Azure Databricks administration experience preferred • Experience supporting Databricks in financial services or another regulated environment preferred • Background in database administration, cloud platform administration, or data platform operations preferred

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical/Rx/Dental/Vision coverage for employees and their eligible family members • Competitive PTO and vacation policies • 1 Friday off each month for Wellness Weekends • Company 401(k) plan with employer contributions after one year • Company-sponsored training and certification opportunities • Quarterly award ceremonies where top achievers are celebrated and receive additional bonuses • Ongoing volunteer opportunities through the BHG Cares program • Work/life balance • Personal and professional development opportunities • Travel to attend the BHG Oars in Experience during the first 6 months and approximately 5% annually thereafter for team on-sites, meetings, and collaboration