Lead Software Engineer (Databricks Platform Engineer) at Vizient
Irving, TX
$117,600–$206,000from the description
Jul 12, 2026
Irving, TX
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior platform engineering role focused on designing and operating an enterprise-scale Databricks environment that supports analytics, data products, machine learning, and AI workloads in a healthcare context. Day-to-day work spans building infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD pipelines, self-service tooling, and reusable reference architectures, while also enabling ML/AI capabilities such as MLflow and Feature Store. Suits an experienced cloud and data platform engineer comfortable with Azure, Delta Lake, and Unity Catalog who can also mentor others and guide architectural decisions.
Senior level · 7+ years · Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 60 people in the Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (database architects). range 35–90
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $158,173 (middle half $132,644–$169,109). 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 (8)
The job location is not explicitly stated in the posting; Vizient is headquartered in Irving, TX (Dallas-Fort Worth metro), so that CBSA is used as the best estimate.
The posting does not specify remote eligibility; remote is set to false by default.
Degree is listed as 'preferred' throughout — no hard degree gate exists, so degree requirement is set to None.
The 7+ years of overall experience is stated as 'required'; the 3+ years of Databricks experience is also stated as 'required' and is captured on the Databricks skill.
MLflow, Model Registry, Feature Store, and Vector Search are listed under a 'preferred' qualifier ('preferred') in the qualifications section, so they are marked as preferred.
Databricks certification and healthcare industry experience are explicitly called out as preferred, not required.
The role sits at the intersection of data/lakehouse architecture (Delta Lake, Unity Catalog, lakehouse patterns) and platform engineering (IaC, CI/CD, self-service); 15-1243 (Database Architects) is the primary classification given the lakehouse/data platform design focus, with 15-1252 (Software Developers) as a close runner-up given the platform engineering and automation coding emphasis.
The career framework label 'Professional - Lead Associate (P4)' is an internal Vizient band and does not map directly to a standard seniority level; the 7+ years requirement and scope of responsibilities support a Senior classification.
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