Data Platform Administration Architect

Responsibilities

• Lead the administration, architecture, governance, and operational support of enterprise data platforms.
• Manage and support Databricks, Azure Data Factory, Azure Data Lake Storage (ADLS), Azure Synapse, Azure SQL, and related Azure services across production and non-production environments.
• Own platform reliability, availability, performance, scalability, security, and operational excellence.
• Define and maintain platform standards, environment strategies, monitoring frameworks, operational procedures, and governance controls.
• Oversee Change Management and Release Management processes, including CRs, SCRs, ECRs, deployment planning, release scheduling, rollback strategies, and post-release validation.
• Participate in CAB (Change Advisory Board) activities and provide technical assessment, risk evaluation, and deployment readiness recommendations.
• Lead production support activities, including resolution of Incidents (INC), Service Requests (RITM), Problem Records, and Major Incident Management processes.
• Coordinate cross-functional teams during critical production incidents and ensure timely restoration of services.
• Perform Root Cause Analysis (RCA) investigations and drive preventative and corrective actions to reduce recurring issues.
• Develop and maintain operational runbooks, knowledge articles, support documentation, escalation procedures, and disaster recovery plans.
• Establish and report on operational KPIs including platform uptime, SLA compliance, release success rates, Mean Time to Resolution (MTTR), incident trends, and platform health metrics.
• Implement and govern CI/CD processes, deployment automation, and infrastructure-as-code best practices.
• Ensure compliance with enterprise security standards, access governance policies, audit requirements, and SOX controls.
• Drive platform modernization initiatives, automation opportunities, cost optimization, and continuous service improvement efforts.
• Mentor platform engineers and administrators while providing technical leadership and architectural direction.

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.
• Working knowledge on Jenkins, Maven, Munit, Jmeter, Postman
• Experience in Open Specification, Swagger
• Experience in CI/CD Pipeline
• Strong working knowledge on REST, HTTP, Any point MQ, JSON, XML
• Hands-on experience with security implementations (OAUTH, SSL, SAML)
• Experience in working Agile projects
• 9-10 years of hands-on experience in analysis, design, development, and deployment of large-scale Integration projects preferred
• Good to have working knowledge on Mulesoft, Azure Service Bus, Oracle Integration Services Experience in importing APIs into API management writing policies, policy expression, setting up authentication, certificates, caching preferred
• Good to have working knowledge on Azure Service Bus, Oracle Integration Services preferred
• 2-3 Years of experience the CICD pipeline for Mulesoft deployments using Git Actions preferred
• Ability to travel up to 25%
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