"Team Lead Databricks Platform Admin"

Job Description:

We have a critical engagement focused on managing the Admin functions of core Databricks platform. We are looking for a strong Team Lead who can:

• Lead and guide the onsite/offshore team
• Serve as the single point of leadership and the face of Wipro in front of the client
• Provide technical direction operational oversight and stakeholder confidence

We are open to a strong Data Engineering leader with proven leadership capabilities solid Terraform and automation experience and the ability to quickly acquire and grow into advanced Databricks administration responsibilities.

This role requires hands-on experience with scripting automation and cloud provisioning incl Ansible SQL Terraform CLI PowerShell and/or Bash Azure and/or AWS provisioning (cloud infrastructure and Databricks workspaces) Unity Catalog and governance concepts.

Typical Profile Team Lead

Leadership & Customer Engagement Skills

• Strong communication skills with the ability to engage confidently with client stakeholders
• Customer management and relationship skills
• Experience leading and mentoring onsite/offshore teams
• Ability to balance technical depth with leadership and decision making
• Experience working in Agile delivery models
• Capability to articulate system designs architectural patterns and platform strategies to varied audiences including senior leadership
• Collaborate closely with cross functional teams (data scientists ML engineers product teams) to deploy and operate data pipelines and services on Databricks
• Document platform architecture best practices and troubleshooting guides and mentor junior engineers on platform usage and optimization.

Platform & Team Management Responsibilities

• Design implement and manage scalable secure and reliable Databricks platforms
• Create and manage Databricks workspaces and clusters including right sizing and lifecycle management
• Automate infrastructure provisioning and deployments using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform GitLab CI/CD Python/Bash/PowerShell)
• Monitor platform health performance and cost through dashboards and integrated monitoring tools
• Troubleshoot and resolve cluster job and performance issues across Databricks environments
• Implement security and governance policies including user management access controls and compliance using Unity Catalog and Databricks security features
• Optimize compute and storage costs while maintaining performance leveraging Delta Lake Photon and other platform capabilities
• Stay current with Databricks feature releases and coordinate with product teams to evaluate and adopt new capabilities
• Own documentation operational runbooks and knowledge transfer for platform sustainability