Databricks Platform Engineer

 Databricks Platform Engineer

 At Salas O’Brien we tell our clients that we’re engineered for impact. This passion for making a difference applies just as much to our team as it does to our projects. That’s why we’re committed to living our values every day: inspiring, achieving, and connecting as shared owners of our success with a focus on a sustainable future.

Building for the long-term means that all of our team members can expect to work on amazing projects with a people-first approach to problem solving. It also means that each member of our team has truly limitless potential to build a unique, meaningful, and high-impact career—and they’ll receive great total rewards along the way.

About Us:

Founded in 1975, Salas O’Brien is an employee-owned engineering and professional services firm focused on achieving impact for our clients, our team, and the world. We know that tomorrow’s requirements are today’s opportunities, and we are here to design lasting solutions for pressing challenges.

We work across a variety of industries providing integrated engineering and consulting services. Our specialized experience includes design for data centers, healthcare, science and technology, high-rise buildings, clean energy, education, and other building types as well as structural and building sciences, infrastructure asset management, advanced robotics, and more.

Our technical expertise is paired with an exceptional team of business development, human resources, finance and accounting, information technology, and marketing professionals, all of whom play a key role in bringing our commitments to life every day.

Job Summary: The Databricks Platform Engineer / Architect owns the Databricks platform from end to end. You will administer the platform, keep it current, and advise teams across the organization on how to design and build within it effectively.

This is a hands-on technical role with meaningful architectural authority. It is not a coordinator position. You will be responsible for both the daily operation of the platform and the long-term decisions that shape its scalability, security, governance, and performance.

Responsibilities

• Administer the Databricks platform across multiple environments, including workspaces, Unity Catalog, cluster policies, budget policies, and the guardrails that enable teams to move quickly while maintaining consistency and control.
• Manage identity and access, including Microsoft Entra ID single sign-on, account-level SCIM group provisioning, service principals, and scalable access-control models.
• Partner with IT Infrastructure and Security to manage the platform’s networking and security posture, including customer-managed virtual private clouds, private connectivity, encryption, egress controls, audit logs, and system tables connected to enterprise monitoring tools.
• Manage infrastructure and workloads through code using Terraform, Databricks Asset Bundles, and CI/CD practices, with no manual production configuration whenever automation is practical.
• Establish and maintain cost-governance practices, including tagging standards, business-unit showback, budget controls, and recommendations for reducing unnecessary platform spending.
• Serve as a trusted architecture advisor to data scientists, data engineers, analysts, and business stakeholders before solutions are designed and deployed.
• Provide current, practical, and technically sound recommendations that balance organizational standards with business needs.
• Evaluate emerging platform capabilities and determine how they should be adopted within the organization.

Keeping the Platform Current

Databricks evolves rapidly. You will monitor platform releases and understand how capabilities such as serverless computing, Unity Catalog, Lakeflow, and other emerging features affect our environment.

You will translate new capabilities into practical recommendations rather than adopting technology based on hype. Your leadership will help ensure that the organization uses modern, supportable patterns instead of relying on outdated approaches.

Qualifications and Experience

Who You Are

• Databricks is your primary technical discipline, not simply one platform among many.
• You have several years of hands-on experience administering and architecting Databricks environments in production.
• You are equally comfortable writing Terraform code and participating in executive-level architecture, security, and governance discussions.
• You can explain why a proposed approach may create challenges over time and offer practical alternatives.
• You have strong technical opinions and preferr