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The Data Platform Operations Lead is the operational owner of that platform - accountable for keeping it reliable, performant, and cost-disciplined for internal stakeholders and investors.\nThis is a hands-on role with a leadership edge. The successful candidate personally owns production support and day-to-day platform operations, owns the firm’s DevOps tooling and CI/CD practice for data, and partners closely with Infrastructure and Data Engineering on the foundation and security layers those teams own. 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this role partners on the operational impact but does not own catalog grants.\nFinOps & Cost Management\nOwn end-to-end FinOps for the data platform: resource tagging, budget policies, and consumption monitoring via Databricks system tables, and keeping spend predictable and defensible.\nDeliver cost transparency and chargeback/showback by business line, giving Fund Accounting, Portfolio Oversight, and other consumers visibility into what they drive.\nRight-size compute (cluster policies, instance pools, SQL warehouse and serverless configuration) and drive continuous optimization of the platform's cost-to-serve.\nForecast platform spend, flag variances early, and partner with Finance and the Head of Enterprise Data Management on the platform budget.\nDevOps & CI/CD Tooling\nAdminister the DevOps toolchain for data - GitHub organization, repositories and access, CI runners, and pipeline secrets - operating with the advanced / administrator privileges these systems require.\nOwn and deploy CI/CD for data assets - GitHub Actions pipelines and Databricks Asset Bundle-based deployment of notebooks, jobs, DLT pipelines, and platform objects across dev, test, and production.\nBuild and administer the Infrastructure-as-Code toolchain (Terraform with the Databricks provider, and Azure IaC for surrounding resources), and own the environment-promotion and release-management model.\nEstablish the observability strategy - monitoring, logging, alerting, and data-quality gates - and hold the practice to it.\nSet the deployment standards and review gates the wider Data Engineering team builds within, and make decisive calls on what gets promoted to production.\nInfrastructure & Platform Security Partnership\nOwn Databricks account and workspace administration and partners with Infrastructure team for provisioning, the account console, identity federation (SCIM and SSO via Entra ID), and group and entitlement management.\nPartner with Infrastructure on platform security - Private Link and network connectivity, secret scopes, token governance, and exfiltration controls.\nMaintain deep conceptual command of these areas to translate operational needs into infrastructure requirements and to resolve platform issues that cross the operations / infrastructure boundary.\nLeadership & Matrixed Influence\nDrive outcomes across a matrixed organization - Infrastructure, Data Engineering, Fund Accounting, and Portfolio Oversight - setting priorities and securing alignment without sole positional authority.\nMake decisive operational and platform decisions.\nCoordinate platform change with the firm’s data-governance and change-management processes rather than operating in parallel.\nEDUCATION/EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS: (including certification, licenses, etc.)\nRequired:\n8-12 years in data platform operations, DataOps, or a closely related discipline, with demonstrated hands-on production-support ownership.\nStrong, current Databricks platform operations experience - compute, cost and FinOps governance, SQL warehouses, workflows/DLT, and runtime management on Azure.\nHands-on experience administering and deploying CI/CD and DevOps tooling (e.g., GitHub / GitHub Actions), Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform), and observability tooling for a data platform.\nA proven track record of partnering with an infrastructure / cloud team on identity, networking, and platform security.\nEvidence of driving cross-functional outcomes in a matrixed environment and exercising sound, decisive judgment under operational pressure.\nBachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience. \nPreferred:\nExperience in financial services, alternative investments, or real estate / infrastructure asset management, with familiarity with close cycles and investor-reporting calendars.\nDatabricks Academy Accreditation - Platform Administrator, and/or Databricks Certified Data Engineer (Associate or Professional).\nMicrosoft Certified: DevOps Engineer Expert (AZ-400).\nHashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate.\nExperience operating BI / reporting platforms such as Domo as downstream consumers of a data platform.\nABOUT YOU:\nThe ideal candidate is a hands-on operator who takes personal ownership of platform reliability and stays calm and decisive under pressure - especially around quarter-end close and investor-reporting cycles. 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