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Senior Databricks Platform Engineer

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EngineeringDevops Engineer

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Quick Summary

Key Responsibilities

Design, configure, and maintain the enterprise Databricks Lakehouse Platform, including workspaces, Unity Catalog, and scalable data architectures. Administer and optimize Databricks compute,

Requirements Summary

Skills:Databricks Lakeflow, Databricks Platform, Data Engineering,

Technical Tools

EngineeringDevops Engineer

Pipeline

Clearance Level Must Currently Possess:

None

Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain:

None

Job Family:

Data Science and Data Engineering

Requirements

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Databricks Lakeflow, Databricks Platform, Data Engineering, Data Ingestion

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10 + years of related experience

Job Description:

Seize your opportunity to make a personal impact supporting the Case Management Modernization (CMM) Program. The CMM program is an initiative to support the Administrative Office of the US Courts (AO) in developing a modern cloud-based solution to support all 204+ federal courts across the United States.

GDIT is your place to make meaningful contributions to challenging projects and grow a rewarding career. The Data Platform Engineer will work as part of the CMM Data Modernization and Governance team responsible for delivering an integrated data governance, engineering, data platform, reporting, analytics, and Artificial Intelligence (AI)/Machine Learning (ML) capabilities that support operational decision-making and fulfill AO's data and analytics objectives in support of the CMM program.

The successful candidate will be responsible for designing, building, administrating, optimizing, configuring, maintaining, and governing the organization's Databricks Lakehouse Platform, enabling scalable data engineering, analytics, and governance capabilities in support of the CMM Data Modernization & Governance program.

Responsibilities

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→MA/MS degree with 12+ years of general experience in information systems and 10+ years of specialized experience.
→Experience may be considered in lieu of degree as follows: HS (18+ years), AA/AS (16+ years), BA/BS (14+ years), Doctorate Degree/Ph.D. (11+ years).
→Strong, hands-on experience implementing and administering the Databricks Lakehouse Platform, including Unity Catalog, cluster and SQL warehouse management, and job/workflow orchestration.
→Experience in performance engineering, scalability testing, and tuning of Databricks data platform.
→Strong expertise in SQL, Spark performance tuning, and workload management.
→Skilled with performance/observability tools (Grafana, Prometheus, Datadog, CloudWatch, Elastic).
→Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps).
→Proficiency in Python and Bash for automation, testing, and platform scripting; strong SQL skills.
→Experience operating Databricks in AWS-based or hybrid cloud environments.
→Familiarity with containerized environments (Docker, Kubernetes) and microservices patterns.
→Experience with telemetry, logging standards, traceability, and root-cause analysis.
→Ability to analyze large performance datasets to identify trends, issues, and optimization opportunities.
→Experience with version control, build/release processes, and IaC automation.
→Knowledge of data ingestion, ETL/ELT, lake/ware-house architectures, and distributed data processing.
→Understanding of cloud security, IAM, access control, networking, and resource governance within Databricks and Unity Catalog.
→Familiarity with federal security, compliance, and audit processes (ATO, FedRAMP).
→Strong troubleshooting skills and ability to optimize workload performance.

Nice to Have

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Databricks Certified Data Engineer Associate or Professional
Databricks Certified Associate Platform Administrator
Databricks Certified Machine Learning Professional
Databricks Certified Associate Developer for Apache Spark
Certified Data Management Professional (CDMP)
AWS Certified Data Analytics - Specialty
AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional
AWS Certified Data Engineer
Docker Certified Associate
Certified Professional DevSecOps Certification Course
ITIL, AWS SysOps

The likely salary range for this position is $169,604 - $229,464. This is not, however, a guarantee of compensation or salary. Rather, salary will be set based on experience, geographic location and possibly contractual requirements and could fall outside of this range.

Scheduled Weekly Hours:

None

Remote

Work Location:

Any Location / Remote

Additional Work Locations:

Our benefits package for all US-based employees includes a variety of medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts, dental plan options, a vision plan, and a 401(k) plan offering the ability to contribute both pre and post-tax dollars up to the IRS annual limits and receive a company match. To encourage work/life balance, GDIT offers employees full flex work weeks where possible and a variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave. GDIT typically provides new employees with 15 days of paid leave per calendar year to be used for vacations, personal business, and illness and an additional 10 paid holidays per year. Paid leave and paid holidays are prorated based on the employee’s date of hire. The GDIT Paid Family Leave program provides a total of up to 160 hours of paid leave in a rolling 12 month period for eligible employees. To ensure our employees are able to protect their income, other offerings such as short and long-term disability benefits, life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance are provided or available. We regularly review our Total Rewards package to ensure our offerings are competitive and reflect what our employees have told us they value most.

As part of the hiring process, we will ask you to complete an identity verification process that leverages advanced biometrics and artificial intelligence to ensure authenticity and protect against identity fraud. You are expected to be on camera during virtual interviews. We reserve the right to take your picture to verify your identity and prevent fraud. By proceeding, you authorize the collection, processing, and use of your biometric data for identity verification and security purposes.

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