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Data Engineer - Databricks

Bo-Kaap, Cape Town City Centre💼 Full-time🗓 2026-05-24 → 2026-08-09

Core

Act as Databricks Workspace Administrator managing platform operations, governance, and enablement for analytics, ML, and GenAI workloads.

Role type

Senior Databricks Platform Engineer

Builds

Databricks workspace infrastructure, Unity Catalog structures, and governance frameworks

Domain

Cloud Data Platform / Data Engineering

Deliverable

infrastructure

Required skills

Databricks Workspace Administration, Unity Catalog design, Identity and Access Management (IAM), CI/CD automation, SQL development, Hive/Glue and JDBC pipeline maintenance, Platform monitoring and alerting

Preferred skills

ML and Generative AI workload support, RAG and model serving workflows, Self-service onboarding model design, Cloud platform expertise (AWS or Azure)

Technologies

Databricks, Unity Catalog, Hive, Glue, JDBC, AWS, Azure

Responsibilities

Manage workspace governance including access controls, cluster policies, and cost/usage controls; Design and maintain Unity Catalog structures; Implement permission models aligned with compliance standards; Support CI/CD and non-human identity integration; Onboard and support tenant teams across analytics, ML, and GenAI; Develop platform monitoring, dashboards, and alerting solutions; Troubleshoot platform configuration and access issues; Maintain runbooks and platform standards.

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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