Data Platform Engineer - Azure & Databricks

Norton Rose Fulbright LLP; North East; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Norton Rose Fulbright LLP in the United Kingdom is seeking a Data Platform Engineer to maintain and govern the enterprise data platform. You will work with Azure Databricks, Microsoft Fabric, and a standardized deployment framework, focusing on health, security, and reliability across environments.

The role is hands-on, collaborating with Architecture, Security, and IT teams to ensure safe CI/CD changes, strong monitoring, and cost awareness.

Qualifications

• Experience maintaining enterprise data platforms on Azure.
• Strong knowledge of Terraform, deployment automation and governance.
• Experience with Azure Databricks and Fabric environments.

Responsibilities

• Provide L2/L3 operational support for Microsoft Fabric, Azure Databricks, and associated Azure services.
• Maintain platform health, availability, resilience and supportability across the data platform estate.
• Perform routine platform administration, operational checks, and capacity and utilisation monitoring.
• Monitor platform performance, identify optimisation opportunities, and maintain cost awareness.
• Troubleshoot issues across platform, identity, networking, storage, security, and integration layers.
• Manage incidents, problems, and service requests in line with ITSM processes.
• Investigate and resolve operational issues, ensuring timely restoration of service.
• Support major incident response activities where platform services are impacted.
• Contribute to root cause analysis and implement actions to improve platform stability.
• Collaborate with internal teams, suppliers, and stakeholders to deliver effective operational support.
• Support change, release, and environment management activities across the platform estate.
• Maintain release readiness checklists and operational acceptance criteria.
• Validate platform changes prior to production deployment to ensure supportability and risk controls.
• Support the management of Development, Test, and Production environments.
• Ensure configuration consistency across environments and platform services.
• Contribute to CI/CD, version control, and release automation practices for platform assets.
• Promote operational excellence through continuous improvement, knowledge sharing, and robust documentation.

Skills

Azure

Troubleshooting

Incident management

Collaboration

CI/CD

Tools

Terraform

Azure DevOps

Azure Databricks

Microsoft Fabric

Job description

Norton Rose Fulbright LLP in the United Kingdom is seeking a Data Platform Engineer to maintain and govern the enterprise data platform. You will work with Azure Databricks, Microsoft Fabric, and a standardized deployment framework, focusing on health, security, and reliability across environments.

The role is hands-on, collaborating with Architecture, Security, and IT teams to ensure safe CI/CD changes, strong monitoring, and cost awareness.