Northrop Grumman

Principal Databricks Platform Administrator

Northrop Grumman

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Falls ChurchVirginiaUnited States

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Salary

💰 $103,600 - $155,400 per year

Job Level

About the role

  • Coordinate the design, provisioning, and configuration of Databricks workspaces, clusters, and job schedules across development, test, and production environments.
  • Maintain the platform’s reliability (SLAs/SLOs), capacity planning, cost‑optimization, and performance tuning.
  • Establish automated monitoring, alerting, and incident‑response processes (Databricks Jobs UI, CloudWatch, Azure Monitor, etc.)
  • Evaluate and integrate complementary technologies (e.g., data ingestion tools, orchestration, cataloging, governance, MLflow, Spark, Delta Sharing)
  • Serve as a liaison between data engineering, data science, analytics, and business units.
  • Establish metrics to evaluate the performance and reliability of Databricks and implement improvements based on findings.
  • Ensure that the Data Ecosystem is compliant with relevant data regulations and security standards, implementing necessary controls for data security, access control, and compliance.

Requirements

  • Must have a minimum of 5 years of relevant experience with a Bachelors degree; 3 Years of relevant experience with Masters degree, or 9 years of relevant experience in lieu of the degree requirement
  • Must have a minimum of 3 years experience working with or supporting Data Ecosystem tools
  • Must have a minimum of 2 years experience with AWS cloud
  • Must have exceptional verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to convey complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders
  • Must have strong communication and stakeholder‑management abilities.
Benefits
  • Health insurance coverage
  • Life and disability insurance
  • Savings plan
  • Company paid holidays
  • Paid time off (PTO) for vacation and/or personal business
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.

Hard Skills & Tools
Databrickscapacity planningcost optimizationperformance tuningautomated monitoringincident responsedata ingestion toolsorchestrationMLflowSpark
Soft Skills
verbal communicationwritten communicationstakeholder management