Databricks Database Administrator

At Curana Health, we're on a mission to radically improve the health, happiness, and dignity of older adults—and we're looking for passionate people to help us do it.

As a national leader in value-based care, we offer senior living communities and skilled nursing facilities a wide range of solutions (including on-site primary care services, Accountable Care Organizations, and Medicare Advantage Special Needs Plans) proven to enhance health outcomes, streamline operations, and create new financial opportunities.

Founded in 2021, we've grown quickly—now serving 200,000+ seniors in 1,500+ communities across 32 states. Our team includes more than 1,000 clinicians alongside care coordinators, analysts, operators, and professionals from all backgrounds, all working together to deliver high-quality, proactive solutions for senior living operators and those they care for.

Ranked #147 on the Inc. 5000 list of America's fastest-growing private companies, we're just getting started. If you're looking to make a meaningful impact on the senior healthcare landscape, you're in the right place—and we look forward to working with you.

For more information about our company, visit CuranaHealth.com.

Summary

We are looking for a talented, experienced individual to join our Data Operations team and lead the company’s migration from SQL Server to DataBricks.

The DBA is a “hands on” position requiring the candidate to be able to work with applicable technologies to develop and maintain databases across the organization, while ensuring high levels of data availability. The ideal candidate will possess strong experience in Databricks Lakehouse architecture, Azure cloud services, automation, security, and platform operations within a healthcare or regulated environment.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

About the team:

The department is comprised of database administrators and data engineers focused on modernizing our data platform and empowering our business stakeholders to make strategic decisions. Teaching, mentoring, and developing are part of our culture. The goal is to develop a balanced team with expertise in modern data solutions.

Responsibilities:

• Modernize the data warehouse environment by migrating the platform to Azure Databricks
• Administer and maintain Databricks workspaces across development, test, and production environments.
• Configure and manage clusters, cluster policies, instance pools, SQL Warehouses, and job scheduling.
• Monitor platform utilization, performance, and capacity planning.
• Optimize cluster configurations for cost, performance, and reliability.
• Manage workspace configurations, notebooks, libraries, and package dependencies.
• Experience implementing Lakehouse architecture and Medallion data patterns (Bronze, Silver, Gold)
• Implement and maintain RBAC, Unity Catalog, workspace permissions, and data access controls.
• Collaborate with Azure platform teams to manage - Azure Key Vault, Azure Virtual Networks, Private Endpoints, Managed Identities, Azure Monitor and Log Analytics
• Troubleshoot cloud connectivity, networking, and authentication issues.
• Ensure secure connectivity between Databricks and enterprise systems.
• Support Data Engineering, Analytics, AI/ML, and Data Science teams.
• Establish operational processes for environment provisioning, support, monitoring, and incident management.
• Perform and/or coordinate installations, upgrades, and patches to Microsoft SQL products and tools
• Develop Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions using Terraform and CI/CD pipelines.
• Automate workspace provisioning, user onboarding, cluster deployments, and policy management.
• Integrate Databricks deployments with Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions.
• Manage source control integration and release processes.
• Provide On-call Support during off- hours for Production, test and development DBs based on criticality

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience administering enterprise data platforms.
• 3+ years of hands-on Databricks administration experience.
• Strong experience with: - Azure Databricks, Unity Catalog, Delta Lake, Azure Data Lake Storage (ADLS), Azure Active Directory (Entra ID), Azure Networking
• Experience implementing RBAC, security policies, and governance controls.
• Strong knowledge of monitoring, logging, troubleshooting, and performance tuning.
• Experience managing production environments and platform support operations.
• Proficiency in Python, SQL, and scripting languages.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform preferred).
• Has familiarity with Microsoft Azure and provisioning of SQL Server Databases
• Understanding of HIPAA, SOC 2, or other compliance frameworks relevant to healthcare data
• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university or equivalent experience