
Principal Databricks Platform Administrator
Northrop Grumman
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Falls Church • Virginia • United 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
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Hard Skills & Tools
Databrickscapacity planningcost optimizationperformance tuningautomated monitoringincident responsedata ingestion toolsorchestrationMLflowSpark
Soft Skills
verbal communicationwritten communicationstakeholder management