About this role

As a Senior Data Platform Engineer at Xcel Energy, you will lead the design, administration, and support of our enterprise Databricks Lakehouse Platform across AWS and GCP. You will provide technical leadership for cloud data services, ensuring scalability, reliability, and security to support advanced analytics and AI/ML initiatives. This role involves collaborating across teams to drive innovation and maintain platform integrity.

What we are looking for

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Design, administer, and support enterprise Databricks Lakehouse Platform on AWS/GCP
Provide technical leadership for cloud data services, including Unity Catalog and IAM
Ensure platform scalability, reliability, security, and cost optimization
Collaborate with data engineering, infrastructure, architecture, and security teams
Mentor junior team members and drive technical solution integrity
Stay current with industry trends and emerging data platform capabilities

Skills mentioned

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PythonSQLAWSGCPTerraformCI/CDData Science