Principal Azure Databricks Platform Engineer
Syneos Health® is a leading fully-integrated life sciences services organization built to accelerate customer success. We partner with innovators at every point across the drug development and commercialization continuum, helping them navigate complexity, anticipate change and accelerate progress.
Every day we perform better because of how we work together, as one team, each the best at what we do. We bring together talented experts across a broad spectrum of business critical corporate functions. Every role plays an essential part in enabling our customers to achieve their goals. Our teams are agile, collaborative, and committed to delivering—for each other, for our customers, and ultimately for the people who rely on the services we support.
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• We are passionate about developing our people, through career development and progression; supportive and engaged line management; technical and therapeutic area training; peer recognition and total rewards program.
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Job Responsibilities
We are seeking an experienced Principal Azure Databricks Platform Engineer to lead the engineering, administration, automation, governance, and continuous modernization of our enterprise data platform built on Microsoft Azure and Azure Databricks.
This is a senior, hands-on technical leadership role requiring deep expertise in Databricks platformcapabilities, beyond basic workspace provisioning or cluster management. The ideal candidate has aproven track record of operating enterprise-scale Databricks environments, implementing platformengineering best practices, building reusable automation, and enabling data engineering, analytics, andAI teams through secure, scalable, and governed platform services.
The successful candidate will combine strong Azure infrastructure expertise with advanced Databricksplatform administration, proactively evaluate new platform capabilities, establish technical standards, andmentor engineers while driving platform modernization initiatives
This role focuses on engineering and operating the data platform, rather than developing ETLpipelines or implementing individual data engineering solutions
Key Responsibilities:
1. Azure Databricks Platform Engineering & Administration
Lead the design, implementation, administration, and optimization of enterprise Azure Databricksenvironments across development, staging, and production.
Manage Databricks account-level and workspace-level configurations, including identity,permissions, networking, compute, workspace settings, and governance.
Establish and enforce enterprise Databricks architecture, administration standards, platformsecurity policies, and operational best practices.
Design and manage compute policies, SQL warehouses, serverless capabilities, jobs compute,workload isolation, and resource utilization.
Troubleshoot complex platform issues involving performance, configuration, permissions,networking, availability, and integration.
Implement platform monitoring, audit logging, cost observability, and proactive operationalcontrols.
Enable multi-team and multi-data-product environments with appropriate security, isolation, andaccess boundaries.
2. Databricks Automation, Terraform & DevOps Develop and maintain reusable Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using theDatabricks…