Principal Databricks Lead

Post Date

Mar 20, 2025

Location

Seattle,
Washington

ZIP/Postal Code

98188
US
Oct 26, 2025 Insight Global

Job Type

Contract

Category

Software Engineering

Req #

SEA-9eccd7e7-aa47-4e0a-b6bf-c5d67c68c45b

Pay Rate

$64 - $80 (hourly estimate)

Job Description

The Databricks support Lead will join Alaska Airlines Analytics Transformation Project and oversee the Databricks implementation. This Support Engineer with guide, teach, document, and support the team’s existing analysts in moving existing on prem data to the Azure Cloud.

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Required Skills & Experience

• Help the organization onboard to Databricks
• Help define additional standards and define requirements for the cloud team to implement controls
• Create/Update documentation
• Support users with questions about Databricks and issues they run into
• Build out and Lead the Databricks Community of Practice
• Review code, architecture diagrams and documentation and give feedback
• Advanced knowledge of working in Databricks
• Experience working within Lakehouse environments- running and optimizing
• Experience in Azure DevOps CI/CD
o Deployments in Databricks Asset Bundles and Terraform
• Great collaboration and communication
• Excellent at creating user documentation and self-help guides

Nice to Have Skills & Experience

• Aviation/ Airline Experience
• Alteryx experience

Benefit packages for this role will start on the 31st day of employment and include medical, dental, and vision insurance, as well as HSA, FSA, and DCFSA account options, and 401k retirement account access with employer matching. Employees in this role are also entitled to paid sick leave and/or other paid time off as provided by applicable law.