Data Platform Engineer (Databricks/Azure)

Location: Hybrid in Dallas, TX, with at least 3 days per week in the office

Company

Specialty care platform connecting members with leading specialists and dedicated care teams while helping employers reduce healthcare costs.

What you will do

• Administer Azure Databricks, Unity Catalog, workspace configuration, cluster policies, compute costs, and chargeback reporting.
• Build self-service provisioning workflows, templates, access patterns, and Infrastructure-as-Code with Terraform across Azure resources.
• Operate the Lakebase PostgreSQL estate, including provisioning, access management, performance tuning, upgrades, backups, point-in-time recovery, and incident response.
• Implement access governance with Unity Catalog, OBO authentication, ABAC, row-level security, data masking, audit logging, lineage, and sensitivity classification.
• Maintain observability, CI/CD, GitHub Actions integrations, deployment workflows for notebooks, jobs, DLT, dbt, Databricks Asset Bundles, and Lakebase migrations.
• Partner with Cloud Platform, Security, Azure SQL DBA, and domain engineering teams on platform standards, regulatory requirements, project kickoffs, escalations, roadmap planning, and documentation.

Requirements

• At least 4 years of platform or infrastructure engineering experience supporting a data or analytics organization.
• Deep hands-on experience with Databricks, Unity Catalog, Delta Lake, Azure, Entra ID, networking, Key Vault, and Terraform or Bicep.
• Hands-on PostgreSQL administration experience covering roles, connections, query and index tuning, backup and restore, point-in-time recovery, and high availability/disaster recovery.
• Experience with identity and access architecture, including service principals, OBO patterns, and access-control tradeoffs.
• Experience building CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions or Azure DevOps, plus Python or another scripting language for automation.
• Experience in regulated environments, preferably healthcare, with HIPAA and/or SOC 2 requirements and elevated-privilege administration of PHI-bearing systems.

Nice to have

• Experience with data mesh, domain-oriented data architecture, Databricks Lakebase, or other cloud-native PostgreSQL services.
• Familiarity with Azure SQL Database, OLTP-to-lakehouse integrations, Datadog, OpenTelemetry, DLT, dbt, or Databricks Asset Bundles.
• Healthcare data experience involving HIPAA access controls and PHI segregation.
• Relevant Databricks or Azure certifications.

Culture & Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• Short- and long-term disability insurance and life insurance.
• 401(k) with company match.
• Flexible time off and paid parental leave.
• Culture centered on logic, inclusion, grit, humanity, truth, integrity, and collaboration.
• No overnight on-call rotation; occasional availability is expected for scheduled deployments and major incidents.