Lantern’s data organization is moving from a centralized model — where the platform team owns most pipeline delivery — toward one where domain teams (Data Engineering, Data Ops, Analytics Engineering) build and own their own data products, and the platform team’s job is to make that possible. This role is core to that shift: building and administering the self-serve infrastructure, governance automation, and access controls that domain teams build on top of, rather than building domain pipelines directly.
This is a hands-on administration and enablement role. Domain teams own their data products; the data architecture committee owns the standards. This role administers the Databricks platform and the Lakebase (managed Postgres) estate, holds the elevated privileges that go with that, and enforces our standards through platform controls, automation, and review — across Azure infrastructure and IAM, CI/CD, observability, and the governance layer of access control, audit, and lineage. It is also the platform’s front door for domain teams, from project kickoffs through day-to-day unblocking, and works in close partnership with the Cloud Platform, Azure SQL DBA, and Security teams on the shared foundations underneath.