CLA (CliftonLarsonAllen)

Lead Platform Administrator

CLA (CliftonLarsonAllen)  •  Arlington, VA (Onsite)  •  14 days ago
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Job Description

CLA is a top 10 national professional services firm where our purpose is to create opportunities every day, for our clients, our people, and our communities through industry-focused wealth advisory, digital, audit, tax, consulting, and outsourcing services. Even with more than 8,500 people, 130 U.S. locations, and a global reach, we promise to know you and help you.

CLA is dedicated to building a culture that invites different beliefs and perspectives to the table, so we can truly know and help our clients, communities, and each other.

We’re seeking a Lead Platform Administrator. This role oversees enterprise data and analytics platform operations, ensuring scalability, performance, security, and alignment with business goals. This role provides technical and people leadership across a platform ecosystem that includes cloud data platforms, analytics services, and containerized compute environments.

About the role:

Oversee design, implementation, and maintenance of cloud data platform compute, clusters, and workloads; ensure platform scalability, performance, and security.

Develop and enforce platform administration policies and procedures; align capabilities with business goals in partnership with leadership.

Provide escalated support and troubleshooting; oversee data governance, access control, and catalog services, including external access controls such as service principals, SQL warehouses, Delta Sharing, and equivalent platform capabilities.

Drive continuous improvement of infrastructure, user management, and external access processes, review documentation quality.

Oversee creation of monitoring queries/dashboards; enforce tagging and naming standards; review cluster health and best‑practice compliance.

Ensure regular backups/recovery and recurring privilege reviews; stay current on Databricks/cloud trends.

Provide day‑to‑day leadership providing coaching, development, and performance management.

Define and enforce platform DevOps standards, including CI/CD, infrastructure‑as‑code, environment promotion, and automated compliance controls across the platform ecosystem.

What you will need

6 years of relevant experience required, Supervisory experience a plus

Bachelor's degree is required. Combination of relevant experience, education, and training may be accepted in lieu of degree. Degree in computer science preferred

Technical Competencies

  • Deep understanding of enterprise data, analytics, and compute platforms, including cloud data services, analytics tools, and Kubernetes environments.
  • Ability to define and enforce platform standards for security, governance, automation, CI/CD, and operational excellence.
  • Experience leading DevOps and platform engineering practices, including infrastructure‑as‑code and environment lifecycle management.
  • Strong knowledge of cloud cost management, scalability, and reliability engineering.
  • Ability to evaluate and guide adoption of emerging platform technologies.

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Wellness at CLA

To support our CLA family members, we focus on their physical, financial, social, and emotional well-being and offer comprehensive benefit options that include health, dental, vision, 401k and much more.

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CLA (CliftonLarsonAllen)

About CLA (CliftonLarsonAllen)

CLA exists to create opportunities for our clients, our people, and our communities through industry-focused wealth advisory, outsourcing, audit, tax, and consulting services. With more than 9,000 people, 130 U.S. locations and a global affiliation, we promise to know you and help you. For more information visit CLAconnect.com.

Investment advisory services are offered through CliftonLarsonAllen Wealth Advisors, LLC, an SEC-registered investment advisor.

CLA is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability status, protected veteran status, national origin, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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Hiring rights: https://www.claconnect.com/general/equal-employment-opportunity

Disclaimer: http://www.CLAconnect.com/Disclaimer/

Industry
Accounting & Tax
Company Size
5,001-10,000 employees
Headquarters
Unknown
Year Founded
2012
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