Job DescriptionAs a Senior Specialist, Intelligence Platform Engineer reporting to the AVP of Enterprise Architecture, you'll play a critical role in administering, governing, and scaling Nasdaq's centralized Databricks Lakehouse environment — the CAP Intelligence Platform — which serves multiple business units across the Capital Access Platforms organization.You'll thrive in this position if you're detail-oriented, technically strong, and energized by building platforms that bring data governance, compliance, and operational efficiency together at scale.Administer and support a multi-workspace Databricks environment, including Unity Catalog governance, service principal management, and enterprise integrations, ensuring platform reliability and operational standards across all business units.

- Own platform-wide governance by monitoring compliance with catalog structure, metadata standards, naming conventions, and tagging requirements — producing scorecards, audit reports, and driving remediation where needed.
- Deliver monthly cost and usage reporting across workspaces, compute clusters, serverless workloads, and storage resources, identifying optimization opportunities and providing business unit-level consumption transparency.
- Partner with workspace administrators and data stewards across six business units to enable self-service administration, develop operational documentation, and serve as the escalation point for complex platform issues.




- Support Infrastructure-as-Code implementations using Terraform to automate provisioning, governance validation, and reporting — contributing to a scalable, efficient platform.Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 5+ years of experience in data platform administration, cloud infrastructure, or a comparable technical discipline.
- Hands-on experience administering Databricks at scale, including Unity Catalog, workspace configuration, and compute management.
- Strong communicator who works effectively across technical and business teams in matrixed, cross-functional environments.Databricks Certified Professional certification or equivalent cloud certifications (e.AWS).
- This position offers the opportunity for a hybrid work environment at least 3 days a week in-office, subject to change, providing flexibility and accessibility for qualified candidates.We ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided with reasonable accommodation throughout the hiring process.In addition to base salary, Nasdaq provides a generous annual bonus/commission (short-term incentive), and equity (long-term incentive), comprehensive benefits, and prospect for growth. Exact compensation may vary based on several job-related factors that are unique to each candidate, including but not limited to: skill set, experience, education/training, business needs and market demands. #

📌 Cap Intelligence Platform Databricks Engineer (Winnipeg)
🏢 Nasdaq
📍 Winnipeg