Sr. Databricks Platform Engineer
RemoteUnited Arab Emirates
Job Summary
Design and implement Unity Catalog governance, including catalog structure, privilege models, and data lineage, for a multi-tenant platform serving external partners. Architect Delta Sharing provider/recipient models to manage external data onboarding and cross-platform sharing between Databricks and Snowflake. Integrate Microsoft Entra ID with Unity Catalog and establish RBAC across environment tiers. Refactor existing Python pipelines into a production-grade medallion architecture and manage workspace structures, CI/CD, and cost optimization. Contribute to low-level architecture design by challenging and improving existing recommendations rather than solely executing them. This live engagement requires hands-on experience with Unity Catalog and Delta Sharing in production environments, alongside strong Python and PySpark skills.
Required Qualifications
- Hands-on Unity Catalog implementation in a production environment
- Real Delta Sharing experience
- Strong Python and PySpark
- production pipeline migration experience
- Microsoft Entra ID integration experience
- service principals
- RBAC, scoped access
- Track record of making platform architecture decisions
- 7+ years data platform engineering
- 3+ years hands-on Azure Databricks
Desired Qualifications
- Databricks Genie evaluation/implementation experience
- Azure Data Factory orchestration
- CI/CD and DataOps
- Azure DevOps
- Databricks Asset Bundles
- FinOps / platform cost optimisation
- Regulated industry or enterprise governance experience
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