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 best‑practice compliance.
•Ensure regular backups/recovery and recurring privilege reviews; stay current on Databricks/cloud trends.
•Provide day‑to‑day leadership providing coaching, development, and performance management.
•Define and enforce platform DevOps standards, including CI/CD, infrastructure‑as‑code, 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
Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities
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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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