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Databricks Manager

Purplejack Technologies LLCWA🇺🇸United States

Why this role stands out

Lead high-impact Databricks initiatives from strategy to delivery in this remote role, developing your leadership and technical expertise within a reputable company. You will thrive by mentoring teams and driving innovation in cloud data platforms, making this an excellent opportunity to advance your career.

Quick overview

SeniorityMid Senior
Work modeRemote
LocationWA, United States
GitApache SparkAWSETLScrumApacheCapacity PlanningComplianceContinuous ImprovementDatabricksGoogle CloudKafkaUnityAzureAgileCI/CDDelta Lake

Job description


This is a remote position.

  • Lead and manage multiple Databricks delivery teams across enterprise data initiatives.
  • Own end-to-end delivery of Databricks programs, ensuring projects meet scope, schedule, quality, and budget expectations.
  • Define delivery strategy, execution plans, milestones, and resource requirements.
  • Provide technical and managerial leadership to Databricks, data engineering, and cloud teams.
  • Partner with enterprise architects, engineering leaders, product owners, and business stakeholders to define solutions and priorities.
  • Oversee implementation of Databricks Lakehouse, Apache Spark, Delta Lake, and cloud data platforms.
  • Manage project/program risks, dependencies, issues, and escalations.
  • Establish delivery standards, engineering best practices, governance, and quality processes.
  • Track program KPIs, delivery metrics, resource utilization, and overall project health.
  • Mentor and develop technical leads, architects, engineers, and delivery managers.
  • Coordinate cross-functional teams across data engineering, cloud, DevOps, analytics, security, and business functions.
  • Drive continuous improvement in delivery processes, automation, scalability, and operational efficiency.
  • Manage client and stakeholder communications, including executive-level status reporting.
  • Support hiring, team building, capacity planning, and resource allocation.
  • Identify opportunities for modernization and optimization of existing data platforms.
  • Ensure adherence to security, compliance, data governance, and enterprise architecture standards

Requirements

  • 15+ years of IT experience with strong delivery/program management experience
  • Proven experience managing Databricks delivery teams and large technical teams
  • Strong hands-on knowledge of Databricks, Apache Spark, Delta Lake & Lakehouse Architecture
  • Experience with Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud Platform
  • Strong background in Data Engineering, ETL/ELT, Data Warehousing & Cloud Data Platforms
  • Experience managing multiple concurrent projects, budgets, resources, risks & timelines
  • Strong Agile/Scrum delivery experience
  • Experience leading distributed/global teams
  • Excellent stakeholder, client & executive communication skills
  • Experience with enterprise-scale data modernization/cloud migration programs is a plus
  • Nice to have: Unity Catalog, Databricks Workflows/Lakeflow, Kafka, CI/CD, Git & Data Governance

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