EXL

Manager - Databricks Platform Engineer

EXL  •  United States (Onsite)  •  10 hours ago
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Databricks Platform Engineer

Works with the Data Platform team on the design, build, and optimization of the Databricks ecosystem, including Fivetran ingestion and dbt transformation pipelines. Ensures scalable, reliable compute environments, seamless AWS integration, and automated deployments using Terraform and GitHub Actions. This role is focused on developing new capabilities in machine learning, advanced analytics, and unified data pipelines.

Key Responsibilities

  • Design, deploy, and optimize Databricks workspaces and clusters on AWS to support data science and modeling workloads.
  • Manage Fivetran connectors and dbt projects for end-to-end data ingestion, transformation, and orchestration across Databricks, S3, and Snowflake.
  • Automate infrastructure provisioning and configuration using Terraform integrated with GitHub Actions.
  • Architect and implement high availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR) strategies, including cross-region replication and failover.
  • Implement job orchestration, cluster policies, autoscaling, and CI/CD workflows for notebooks, models, and releases.
  • Establish monitoring and alerting for cost, usage, pipeline health, data freshness, and compliance using tools such as Datadog.
  • Collaborate with platform segments and security teams to enforce governance, tagging, rightsizing, SLAs, and audit readiness.
  • Develop and maintain Unity Catalog for governance, lineage, and secure data sharing across platforms.
  • Build and maintain MLflow integrations for model lifecycle management, experimentation tracking, and deployment.

Preferred Skills

  • Deep expertise in Databricks administration, cluster management, job scheduling, Unity Catalog, Fivetran, and dbt (Core/Cloud).
  • Proficiency in Terraform, GitHub Actions, and Python/PySpark for automation.
  • Strong knowledge of AWS services, including EKS, ECS, IAM, S3, VPC networking, and CloudWatch.
  • Experience in pipeline reliability engineering, cost optimization, ML CI/CD, HA/DR design, and observability.

Manage database administration projects. Ensure adherence to policies. Provide strategic guidance. Lead a team.

Graduate in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field. 4-6 years of experience in database administration or data management.

EXL

About EXL

Choosing a digital partner is about more than capabilities — it’s about collaboration and character.

Unrealistic overhauls and off-the-shelf products ignore what matters most — your unique needs, culture, goals, and your legacy data and technology environments.

At EXL, our collaboration is built on ongoing listening and learning to adapt our methodologies. We’re your business evolution partner—tailoring solutions that make the most of data to make better business decisions and drive more intelligence into your increasingly digital operations.

Whether your goals are scaling the use of AI and digital, redesign operating models, or driving better and faster decisions, we’re here to partner with you to help you gain—and maintain—competitive advantage with efficient, sustainable models at scale.

Our expertise in transformation, data science, and change management helps make your business more efficient and effective, improve customer relationships and enhance revenue growth. Instead of focusing on multi-year, resource- and time-intensive platform designs or migrations, we look deeper at your entire value chain to integrate strategies with impact.

We use our specialization in analytics, digital interventions, and operations management—alongside deep industry expertise — to deliver solutions that help you outperform the competition.

At EXL, it’s all about outcomes—your outcomes—and delivering success on your terms. Share your goals with us and together, we’ll optimize how you leverage data to drive your business forward.

For more information, visit www.exlservice.com.

Industry
Consulting & Advisory
Company Size
10,000+ employees
Headquarters
New York, NY
Year Founded
Unknown
Website
exlservice.com
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