Lead Platform Administrator

CLA is a top 10 national professional services firm where our purpose is to create opportunities every day, for our clients, our people, and our communities through industry-focused wealth advisory, digital, audit, tax, consulting, and outsourcing services. Even with more than 8,500 people, 130 U.S. locations, and a global reach, we promise to know you and help you.

CLA is dedicated to building a culture that invites different beliefs and perspectives to the table, so we can truly know and help our clients, communities, and each other.

We're seeking a Lead Platform Administrator. This role oversees enterprise data and analytics platform operations, ensuring scalability, performance, security, and alignment with business goals. This role provides technical and people leadership across a platform ecosystem that includes cloud data platforms, analytics services, and containerized compute environments.

About the role:

*Oversee design, implementation, and maintenance of cloud data platform compute, clusters, and workloads; ensure platform scalability, performance, and security.

*Develop and enforce platform administration policies and procedures; align capabilities with business goals in partnership with leadership.

*Provide escalated support and troubleshooting; oversee data governance, access control, and catalog services, including external access controls such as service principals, SQL warehouses, Delta Sharing, and equivalent platform capabilities.

*Drive continuous improvement of infrastructure, user management, and external access processes, review documentation quality.

*Oversee creation of monitoring queries/dashboards; enforce tagging and naming standards; review cluster health and bestpractice compliance.

*Ensure regular backups/recovery and recurring privilege reviews; stay current on Databricks/cloud trends.

*Provide daytoday leadership providing coaching, development, and performance management.

*Define and enforce platform DevOps standards, including CI/CD, infrastructureascode, environment promotion, and automated compliance controls across the platform ecosystem.

What you will need

6 years of relevant experience required, Supervisory experience a plus

Bachelor's degree is required. Combination of relevant experience, education, and training may be accepted in lieu of degree. Degree in computer science preferred

Technical Competencies

• Deep understanding of enterprise data, analytics, and compute platforms, including cloud data services, analytics tools, and Kubernetes environments.
• Ability to define and enforce platform standards for security, governance, automation, CI/CD, and operational excellence.
• Experience leading DevOps and platform engineering practices, including infrastructureascode and environment lifecycle management.
• Strong knowledge of cloud cost management, scalability, and reliability engineering.
• Ability to evaluate and guide adoption of emerging platform technologies.

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Wellness at CLA

To support our CLA family members, we focus on their physical, financial, social, and emotional well-being and offer comprehensive benefit options that include health, dental, vision, 401k and much more.

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