Position Summary

The Azure Databricks Administrator owns the governance, security, administration, optimization, and operational support of the Azure Databricks platform. The role ensures Azure Databricks is deployed and managed as a secure, scalable, cost-effective, and production-ready enterprise analytics and AI platform while supporting integration with Microsoft Fabric, Microsoft Purview, Precisely, and other enterprise AI solutions.

Duties and Accountabilities

The roles and responsibilities of this job include:

• Administer Azure Databricks workspaces across Development, Test, and Production environments.
• Define and enforce platform governance standards, cluster policies, naming standards, and environment controls
• Manage security including Azure Entra ID integration, RBAC, Unity Catalog, Key Vault integration, private endpoints, and network security.
• Monitor platform health, usage, reliability, and compliance using enterprise monitoring and alerting tools.
• Optimize cloud consumption, compute resources, storage utilization, cluster sizing, and overall platform costs.
• Provide troubleshooting, support, root-cause analysis, and operational guidance to engineering teams.
• Lead user onboarding, access management, training, and adoption activities.
• Ensure compliance with internal policies, regulatory requirements, and data protection standards.
• Integrate Azure Databricks with Precisely, Microsoft Purview, Microsoft Fabric, and other enterprise platforms.
• Support secure integration with AI solutions such as Atlas, Legora, Azure OpenAI, and future AI platforms.
• Collaborate with Infrastructure, Security, Architecture, Data Engineering, and business stakeholders to align platform strategy.

Success Measures

• High platform availability and reliability.
• Improved governance and security compliance.
• Reduced cloud costs through optimization initiatives.
• Faster onboarding of analytics and AI workloads.
• Accurate metadata, lineage, and governance integration.
• Adoption of platform standards and best practices.

Qualifications

The qualifications for this role are:

• 3-5+ years of experience supporting Azure and enterprise data platforms.
• Strong knowledge of Azure Databricks administration, security, cluster management, and governance.
• Experience with Azure services including Entra ID, Key Vault, Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Networking, and Cost Management.
• Understanding of CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform), GitHub, and Azure DevOps.
• Experience with data governance, metadata management, lineage, and Microsoft Purview.
• Knowledge of Microsoft Fabric, Lakehouse architecture, Delta Lake, and modern analytics platforms.

Salary Range

The New York salary range is: $97,600 - 146,400

This role reports to
Senior Manager, Data and Analytics Platforms

Benefits at White & Case

White & Case LLP offers a comprehensive suite of benefit programs to all eligible employees, including medical, dental, and vision insurance, life and disability coverage, 401(k) retirement savings, vacation time, and leave programs (including parental leave). Exempt roles are also performance bonus eligible.

The Firm may modify and amend any job description at any time in its sole discretion. Nothing herein creates a contract of employment or otherwise modifies the at-will nature of employment.

The above is only a general description of the essential duties associated with this position and does not represent an exhaustive or comprehensive list of all duties.

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