Senior Platform Administrator

CLA is a top 10 national professional services firm where our purpose is to create opportunities every day, for our clients, our people, and our communities through industry-focused wealth advisory, digital, audit, tax, consulting, and outsourcing services. Even with more than 8,500 people, 130 U.S. locations, and a global reach, we promise to know you and help you.

CLA is dedicated to building a culture that invites different beliefs and perspectives to the table, so we can truly know and help our clients, communities, and each other.

Our Perks:

• Flexible PTO (designed to offer flexible time away for you)

• Up to 12 weeks paid parental leave

• Paid Volunteer Time Off

• Mental health coverage

• Quarterly Wellness stipend

• Fertility benefits

• Complete list of benefits here

CLA is growing and seeking to hire an experienced Senior Platform Administrator to join our talented Information Technology team. The position offers growth, flexibility and a collaborative work environment.

This role leads the administration and optimization of the Databricks environment. They are responsible for the administration, configuration, and optimization of the Databricks platform to enable data analytics, machine learning, and data engineering activities within the firm.

How you'll create opportunities in this Senior Platform Administrator role:

• Lead the setup, configuration, and maintenance of Databricks clusters.

• Monitor and optimize system performance, ensuring high availability and reliability.

• Implement and enforce security best practices and compliance standards.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design and implement data solutions.

• Provide advanced user support and training.

• Develop and maintain comprehensive documentation for platform administration.

• Manage and maintain role-based access to data and features in the Databricks Platform using Unity Catalog.

• Implement external access controls for outside teams using service principles, SQL warehouses, and Delta Sharing.

• Ensure unused assets are tracked for pruning.

• Implement service principles and access tokens for external users.

• Create queries and dashboards to monitor critical systems and processes

• Automate common admin tasks using Databricks notebooks.

• Manage workflow tags, cluster tags, workflow naming convention enforcement.

• Perform clusters health check and best practices implementation.

• Perform regular backup and recovery.

• Perform privilege reviews on users and resources.

• Provide training to junior members of the team and act as a point of escalation for complex questions and issues.

What you will need:

• 5 years of relevant experience required.

• Bachelor's degree or a combination of relevant experience and training may be considered in lieu of a degree.

Technical Competencies:

Understanding of data engineering needs

Understanding of Azure infrastructure required by Databricks

Experience with compliance audits/audit documentation

Experience using Databricks APIs with tools like Postman

Understanding of the Databricks workspace and development environment

Experience using GitHub to manage source code

Strong SQL skills for creating admin related queries and dashboards

Strong debugging skills

Ability to do risk analysis for 3rd party integrations with Azure resources.

Familiarity with Dynatrace.

Proficiency in Spark, Python, and SQL.

Strong understanding of cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP).

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Wellness at CLA

To support our CLA family members, we focus on their physical, financial, social, and emotional well-being and offer comprehensive benefit options that include health, dental, vision, 401k and much more.

To view a complete list of benefits click here.