Databricks Platform Engineer at EXL Talent Acquisition Team
EXL - New York
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Jul 20, 2026
EXL - New York
Jul 23, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
This role centers on managing an enterprise Databricks environment hosted on AWS — covering its design, administration, security, and ongoing optimization. The position owns the full platform lifecycle, with a focus on scalability, governance, and cost control to support internal data, analytics, and AI teams. It suits a platform or infrastructure engineer rather than someone focused on data pipelines or analytics work.
Senior level
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How this req sits in the market our data
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
What the occupation pays Median $138,970 (middle half $107,524–$175,762).
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 29, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (3)
This posting is extremely sparse — only two concrete technologies (Databricks on AWS) are named. All other requirements (scalability, security, governance, cost optimization) are described as responsibilities or themes, not as named tools or technologies, so no additional skills could be extracted.
The SOC classification is a genuine judgment call: the role is framed as 'platform engineering' (building/owning the platform lifecycle), which leans toward 15-1252 Software Developers (platform/infrastructure engineering). However, the emphasis on administering, securing, and operating the Databricks environment also has characteristics of 15-1244 (Systems Administration). 15-1252 was chosen as primary because the posting explicitly calls out platform design and lifecycle ownership rather than pure operations.
Location, remote status, compensation, employment type, experience requirements, and degree requirements are entirely absent from this posting.
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