Team Lead - Databricks Platform Admin

Tanisha Systems

St. Louis, MO

JOB DETAILS
JOB TYPE
Full-time
SKILLS
Administrative Skills, Systems Administration/Management, Team Lead/Manager
LOCATION
St. Louis, MO
POSTED
5 days ago
Role: Team Lead - Databricks Platform Admin
Location:

St. Louis, Missouri (3 Days onsite/week))


Yrs. of experience:

10+ Yrs.




Interview Process:
  • We are preferred looking for profiles who can relocate to St. Louis, Missouri or local to St. Louis, Missouri.

Job Description:

We have a critical engagement, focused on managing the Admin functions of core Databricks platform. We are looking for a strong Team Lead who can:

  • Lead and guide the onsite/offshore team
  • Serve as the single point of leadership and the face of Client in front of the client
  • Provide technical direction, operational oversight, and stakeholder confidence

We are open to a strong Data Engineering leader with proven leadership capabilities, solid Terraform and automation experience, and the ability to quickly acquire and grow into advanced Databricks administration responsibilities.


This role requires hands-on experience with scripting, automation, and cloud provisioning, incl Ansible, SQL, Terraform, CLI, PowerShell and/or Bash, Azure and/or AWS provisioning (cloud infrastructure and Databricks workspaces), Unity Catalog and governance concepts.



Typical Profile – Team Lead

Leadership & Customer Engagement Skills

  • Strong communication skills with the ability to engage confidently with client stakeholders
  • Customer management and relationship skills
  • Experience leading and mentoring onsite/offshore teams
  • Ability to balance technical depth with leadership and decision‐making
  • Experience working in Agile delivery models
  • Capability to articulate system designs, architectural patterns, and platform strategies to varied audiences, including senior leadership
  • Collaborate closely with cross‐functional teams (data scientists, ML engineers, product teams) to deploy and operate data pipelines and services on Databricks
  • Document platform architecture, best practices, and troubleshooting guides, and mentor junior engineers on platform usage and optimization.

Platform & Team Management Responsibilities

  • Design, implement, and manage scalable, secure, and reliable Databricks platforms
  • Create and manage Databricks workspaces and clusters, including right‐sizing and lifecycle management
  • Automate infrastructure provisioning and deployments using Infrastructure‐as‐Code (Terraform, GitLab CI/CD, Python/Bash/PowerShell)
  • Monitor platform health, performance, and cost through dashboards and integrated monitoring tools
  • Troubleshoot and resolve cluster, job, and performance issues across Databricks environments
  • Implement security and governance policies, including user management, access controls, and compliance using Unity Catalog and Databricks security features
  • Optimize compute and storage costs while maintaining performance, leveraging Delta Lake, Photon, and other platform capabilities
  • Stay current with Databricks feature releases and coordinate with product teams to evaluate and adopt new capabilities
  • Own documentation, operational runbooks, and knowledge transfer for platform sustainability


Additional Job Details:






About Tanisha Systems, Inc.

Tanisha Systems, founded in 2002 in Massachusetts-*, is a leading provider of Custom Application Development and end-to-end IT Services to clients globally. We use a client-centric engagement model that combines local on-site and off-site resources with the cost, global expertise and quality advantages of off-shore operations. We deliver Custom Application Development, Application Modernization, Business Process Outsourcing and Professional IT Services from office locations in * and *.


Tanisha Systems services clients in Government, Banking & Financial Markets, Insurance, Healthcare, Retail & Consumer Goods, Energy & Utilities, Life Sciences, Telecom, Manufacturing and Transportation Industries around the globe. Our engagement model provides a flexible operational environment that empowers our clients with the right levels of control.



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