Azure Databricks Admin at Cognizant
Nashville, TN
$110,000–$160,000from the description
Jun 30, 2026
Nashville, TN
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
This is a remote, enterprise-level platform administration role focused on managing and governing Azure Databricks environments at scale. Day-to-day work spans cluster configuration and performance tuning, Unity Catalog data governance, identity and security integration with Microsoft Entra ID, networking architecture, and pipeline orchestration via Azure Data Factory. It suits an experienced cloud data platform specialist comfortable operating across engineering, security, and infrastructure teams.
Senior level · 5+ years · Remote · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 340 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (network and computer systems administrators). range 70–510
Applicant volume Light — Few people clear these requirements, so an application that does clear them gets looked at. Worth applying to even if you miss a nice-to-have.
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $101,310 (middle half $79,725–$129,425). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (7)
SOC classification is a genuine judgment call: the role is titled 'Administrator' and centers on operating, securing, and governing an existing Azure Databricks platform (15-1244), but it also involves designing Unity Catalog architecture, data pipeline integration, and IaC automation that lean toward 15-1243 (Database Architects). 15-1244 was chosen because day-to-day work is primarily platform operations, access management, monitoring, and incident response rather than building new data infrastructure from scratch.
The degree requirement states 'Bachelor's degree … or equivalent work experience,' so no hard degree gate applies.
CI/CD platform experience is listed in the required section with 'Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, or similar' — Azure DevOps is the primary named tool with GitHub Actions captured as an alternative; the 'or similar' qualifier means the specific tool is interchangeable but the capability is required.
Delta Lake, Spark architecture/APIs, and IaC tools appear only under 'Preferred Qualifications' and are marked accordingly.
Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert and Databricks certifications are listed under Preferred Qualifications and are not captured as skills since they are credentials rather than concrete technologies.
Ignored 1 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2.
This posting reads as a fully-remote role, so it was scored against the national candidate pool rather than a single metro.
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