Senior Databricks Data Platform Engineer (Pyspark)

Location: Montreal, QC (REMOTE)
Type: Contract
Role Overview
As a Senior Databricks Data Platform Engineer you will own the engineering automation and day to day health of our enterprise Databricks Lakehouse platform This is a platform-first role rather than building individual business pipelines you will build the foundation that every data engineer analyst and data scientist at Client depends on including workspaces compute Unity Catalog governance deployment pipelines and the guardrails that keep the platform secure reliable and cost-efficient
You will treat the platform as a product That means codifying infrastructure and configuration delivering changes through fully automated CICD introducing agentic AI workflows that reduce manual operational effort and continuously driving down compute and storage cost while improving performance You will combine deep hands-on Databricks expertise with a FinOps and DevOps mindset and you will measure your success in platform reliability developer productivity and dollars saved
This is a highly collaborative role You will partner with data engineering data science security cloud infrastructure and finance teams to set platform standards, guide adoption of new Databricks capabilities and mentor engineers across the organization
About the role
Own the architecture configuration and lifecycle of Client Databricks environments across development test and production, including workspaces, account-level settings, networking and identity integration
Administer and evolve Unity Catalog including metastores catalogs schemas, external locations storage credentials and fine-grained access controls
Design and enforce compute strategy across all-purpose clusters job clusters, serverless compute SQL warehouses instance pools and cluster policies
Manage platform upgrades Databricks Runtime adoption feature previews and deprecations with minimal disruption to consuming teams
Build reusable platform templates starter projects and self-service capabilities that let engineering teams onboard quickly and consistently
CICD Platform Automation
Design build and maintain CICD pipelines for Databricks code and configuration using Databricks Asset Bundles Git folders and Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions
Codify platform infrastructure with Terraform Databricks and cloud providers ensuring every workspace cluster policy, permission and Unity Catalog object is version-controlled and reproducible
Implement automated testing code quality gates security scanning and promotion workflows from development through production
Establish branching release and rollback standards for notebooks jobs Delta Live Tables, Lakeflow pipelines and ML assets
Automate routine administration such as user and group provisioning SCIM secret management token rotation and environment drift detection
Agentic Workflows AI-Enabled Operations
Design and deploy agentic workflows that automate platform operations such as job failure triage rootcause analysis cost anomaly investigation and remediation recommendations
Build AI agents and tools on Databricks Mosaic AI Agent Framework Model Serving Vector Search and integrate them with enterprise systems through Model Context Protocol MCP
Use Copilot and Anthropic models to accelerate infrastructure-as-code pipeline development code review and documentation
Establish guardrails evaluation, observability and human-in-the-loop controls so agentic automation is safe auditable and trusted
Partner with data science and engineering teams to provide a governed platform foundation for GenAI RAG and ML workloads
Platform Cost Optimization FinOps
Own Databricks cost visibility and accountability using system tables billing usage compute and query history tagging standards and chargeback or showback reporting
Identify and deliver savings through cluster rightsizing, auto-termination, autoscaling tuning spot and reserved capacity strategies Photon and serverless evaluation and workload consolidation
Enforce cost guardrails through cluster policies budget s and compute governance that prevent waste without slowing teams down
Build dashboards and automated s that surface cost anomalies idle resources and optimization opportunities to engineering and finance stakeholders
Partner with finance and procurement on DBU commitments forecasting and capacity planning
Storage Performance Optimization
Define and enforce Delta Lake storage standards including file sizing liquid clustering Zordering partitioning strategy and deletion vectors
Automate table maintenance using predictive optimization OPTIMIZE VACUUM and retention policies to control storage growth and improve query
SkillsMandatory Skills :
Databricks
Good to Have Skills :
Azure Databricks
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