Principal Azure Databricks Platform Engineer

Principal Azure Databricks Platform Engineer Syneos Health® is a leading fully-integrated life sciences services organization built to accelerate customer success. We partner with innovators at every point across the drug development and commercialization continuum, helping them navigate complexity, anticipate change and accelerate progress. Every day we perform better because of how we work together, as one team, each the best at what we do. We bring together talented experts across a broad spectrum of business critical corporate functions. Every role plays an essential part in enabling our customers to achieve their goals. Our teams are agile, collaborative, and committed to delivering—for each other, for our customers, and ultimately for the people who rely on the services we support. Discover what your 25,000 future colleagues already know: Why Syneos Health • We are passionate about developing our people, through career development and progression; supportive and engaged line management; technical and therapeutic area training; peer recognition and total rewards program. • We are committed to building an inclusive culture – where you can authentically be yourself. Central to this is our purpose – Driven to Deliver – which captures the passion of our colleagues to show up each day and shape solutions that have the ability to dramatically impact someone’s life.  • We are continuously building the company we all want to work for and our customers want to work with. Why? Because we know that when we bring together smart colleagues from across the world, we can shape the future of healthcare, driving impact for customers and defining the pace of patient progress.  Job Responsibilities We are seeking an experienced Principal Azure Databricks Platform Engineer to lead the engineering, administration, automation, governance, and continuous modernization of our enterprise data platform built on Microsoft Azure and Azure Databricks. This is a senior, hands-on technical leadership role requiring deep expertise in Databricks platformcapabilities, beyond basic workspace provisioning or cluster management. The ideal candidate has aproven track record of operating enterprise-scale Databricks environments, implementing platformengineering best practices, building reusable automation, and enabling data engineering, analytics, andAI teams through secure, scalable, and governed platform services. The successful candidate will combine strong Azure infrastructure expertise with advanced Databricksplatform administration, proactively evaluate new platform capabilities, establish technical standards, andmentor engineers while driving platform modernization initiatives This role focuses on engineering and operating the data platform, rather than developing ETLpipelines or implementing individual data engineering solutions Key Responsibilities: 1. Azure Databricks Platform Engineering & Administration