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Overview
How You'll Make an Impact
A subsidiary of Publicis Groupe, Epsilon powers data-driven marketing at massive scale for some of the world's leading brands.
We're hiring a Lead Databricks Administrator to own and evolve our Databricks platform across cloud environments. This is a high-impact role focused on driving platform standards, strengthening governance, and improving reliability across enterprise data systems. You'll support large-scale Data Lake environments across AWS, Azure, and GCP, helping enable critical data operations for key clients.
Responsibilities
What You'll Achieve:

• Lead and scale Databricks platform administration across enterprise workspaces and multi-cloud environments (AWS, Azure, GCP)
• Establish and enforce standards for workspace provisioning, access controls, compute configuration, and governance to improve platform consistency and stability
• Drive operational excellence by implementing repeatable processes, automation, and best practices across Databricks environments
• Strengthen platform reliability, performance, and cost efficiency through proactive monitoring, optimization, and issue resolution
• Partner cross-functionally with Engineering, Security, Cloud, and Operations teams to ensure secure, compliant, and scalable platform architecture
• Own and improve identity and access management practices (least privilege, group management, service principals, admin controls)
• Lead troubleshooting and resolution of complex issues across Databricks, cloud infrastructure, networking, and data workloads
• Evaluate and adopt new Databricks capabilities to enhance governance, scalability, and operational efficiency
• Build and maintain documentation, runbooks, and platform standards to support long-term maintainability and audit readiness
• Mentor team members and promote best practices to elevate overall platform maturity
• Support production operations, incident response, and ongoing platform health in a high-impact, enterprise environment

Qualifications
What You'll Bring with You :

• BS in Computer Science or related technical discipline, or equivalent practical experience
• 7+ years of experience in data platform, database administration, or cloud infrastructure roles
• 3+ years of hands-on experience administering Databricks (workspaces, clusters, jobs, SQL Warehouses, platform services)
• Strong expertise in:
• Databricks workspace and account management
• Platform governance, access controls, and administration best practices
• Compute configuration, cluster policies, and workload optimization
• Experience supporting Databricks across AWS, Azure, or GCP environments
• Hands-on experience with infrastructure provisioning and automation (Terraform, APIs, scripting, CI/CD pipelines)
• Strong understanding of identity and access management:
• SSO, SCIM provisioning, RBAC
• Service principals, group management, least privilege models
• Working knowledge of Unity Catalog, data governance frameworks, and secure data access patterns
• Experience implementing and maintaining platform standards (naming conventions, provisioning workflows, configuration baselines, access controls)
• Proven ability to monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize platform performance, reliability, and cost efficiency
• Experience diagnosing issues across Databricks, cloud infrastructure, networking, identity, and data pipelines
• Strong SQL, Unix/Linux, and scripting skills; Python or Scala is a plus
• Experience building and maintaining documentation, runbooks, and operational processes to support audit readiness and platform scalability
• Familiarity with incident response, change management, and production support in enterprise environments
• Ability to operate independently, manage multiple priorities, and contribute to a high-ownership, cross-functional environment
• Strong communication skills with the ability to work effectively across engineering, security, and platform teams

Click here to view how Epsilon transforms marketing with 1 View, 1 Vision, 1 Voice.
Additional Information
When You Join Us, We'll Create Something EPIC Together
Epsilon is a global data, technology and services company that powers the marketing and advertising ecosystem. For decades, we've provided marketers from the world's leading brands the data, technology and services they need to engage consumers with 1 View, 1 Vision and 1 Voice. 1 View of their universe of potential buyers. 1 Vision for engaging each individual. And 1 Voice to harmonize engagement across paid, owned and earned channels.
Epsilon's comprehensive portfolio of capabilities across our suite of digital media, messaging and loyalty solutions bridge the divide between marketing and advertising technology. We process 400+ billion consumer actions each day using advanced AI and hold many patents of proprietary technology, including real-time modeling languages and consumer privacy advancements. Thanks to the work of every employee, Epsilon has been consistently recognized as industry-leading by Forrester, Adweek and the MRC. Epsilon is a global company with more than 9,000 employees around the world.
Our pillars aren't just words. They're how we show up every day.

• People centricity: We focus on employee well-being in an environment where colleagues truly care about each other.
• Collaboration: We work together, support one another, and collectively achieve goals.
• Growth: There are endless opportunities for growth through learning, development and career advancement.
• Innovation: We drive progress through cutting-edge solutions and forward-thinking approaches.
• Flexibility: We've created a balance between work and personal life, and we encourage adaptability to solve problems creatively.

Our values guide us to create value for our clients, our people and consumers.

• Act with integrity
• Work together to win together
• Innovate with purpose
• Respect all voices
• Empower with accountability

These pillars and values are our foundation-shaping our culture, guiding our decisions, and uniting us in common purpose.
Because You Matter
As an Epsilon employee, you deserve perks and benefits that put you, your family and your finances first. Our benefits encompass a wide range of offerings, including but not limited to the following:

• Time to Recharge: Flexible time off (FTO), 15 paid holidays
• Time to Recover: Paid sick time
• Family Well-Being: Parental/new child leave, childcare & elder care assistance, adoption assistance
• Extra Perks: Comprehensive health coverage, 401(k), tuition assistance, commuter benefits, professional development, employee recognition, charitable donation matching, health coaching and counseling

Epsilon benefits are subject to eligibility requirements and other terms.
Epsilon is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Epsilon's policy is not to discriminate against any applicant or employee based on actual or perceived race, age, sex or gender (including pregnancy), marital status, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, mental or physical disability, religion, creed, color, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression (including transgender status), veteran status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state or local law. Epsilon also prohibits harassment of applicants and employees based on any of these protected categories. Epsilon will provide accommodations to applicants needing accommodations to complete the application process. Please reach out to LeaveofAbsence@epsilon.com to request an accommodation.
For San Francisco Bay and Los Angeles Areas: Epsilon will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the City of Los Angeles' Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance and San Francisco Police Code Sections 4901-4919, commonly referred to as the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance. Applicants with criminal histories are welcome to apply.
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Compensation Range: USD $98,000.00 - USD $182,000.00/Annually. This is the pay range the Company believes it will pay for this position at the time of this posting. Consistent with applicable law, compensation will be determined based on the skills, qualifications, and experience of the applicant along with the requirements of the position, and the Company reserves the right to modify this pay range at any time. Temporary roles may be eligible to participate in our freelancer/temporary employee medical plan through a third-party benefits administration system once certain criteria have been met. Temporary roles may also qualify for participation in our 401(k) plan after eligibility criteria have been met. For regular roles, the Company will offer medical coverage, dental, vision, disability, 401k, and paid time off. The Company anticipates the application deadline for this job posting will be 9/3/2026.