Data Platform Engineer – Databricks & Tableau+ Reliability

Burberry; City of Westminster; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Burberry is seeking a Data Platform Engineer to own the operational reliability and day-to-day administration of our core data and analytics platforms, notably Databricks and Tableau Plus. You’ll work with governance and security teams to ensure platform availability, performance and compliance.

The role focuses on platform administration, monitoring, change management and documentation, while business reporting content remains with data and analytics teams.

Qualifications

• Hands-on administration of enterprise data & analytics platforms.
• Experience with Databricks and Tableau/Tableau Plus administration.
• Familiarity with governance, data observability and security controls.
• Experience working with external managed service providers in 24/7 environments.
• Strong documentation and runbook development.

Responsibilities

• Provide hands-on technical ownership for Databricks and Tableau Plus, ensuring platforms are available, secure and well-administered.
• Oversee Alation and BigEye governance, catalog, observability and related processes.
• Manage workspace/site configuration, access controls and environment settings.
• Coordinate with the operational support partner for 24/7 incident management and service restoration.
• Lead platform release coordination, patches and security fixes within SaaS constraints.
• Support ITIL-aligned service management: incident, change, release, request fulfilment, service readiness.
• Monitor health metrics, cost trends, job reliability and dashboard performance.
• Provide L2/L3 support, root-cause analysis and vendor escalation when needed.
• Maintain runbooks, knowledge articles and operational documentation for repeatable processes.

Skills

Databricks administration

Tableau Plus administration

Identity & access management

ITIL processes

Operational monitoring

Automation

Tools

Databricks

Tableau Plus

Alation

BigEye

ITIL

Job description

Burberry is seeking a Data Platform Engineer to own the operational reliability and day-to-day administration of our core data and analytics platforms, notably Databricks and Tableau Plus. You’ll work with governance and security teams to ensure platform availability, performance and compliance.

The role focuses on platform administration, monitoring, change management and documentation, while business reporting content remains with data and analytics teams.