Data Platform Engineer - Hybrid/Remote Azure Databricks Pro

NRF United Kingdom; Newcastle upon Tyne; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Norton Rose Fulbright is seeking a Data Platform Engineer to operate our Azure-based data platform across EMEA. The role is hands-on, focusing on platform health, security, governance and CI/CD pipelines.

You will work with Architecture, Security, Service Delivery and external suppliers to ensure reliable deployment, runbooks, monitoring and incident response, with emphasis on automation and continuous improvement.

Qualifications

• Experience supporting cloud-based data platforms in production or near-production environments.
• Experience with Microsoft Fabric and Azure Databricks.
• Proven ITSM experience including incident, problem, change, release, and service request management.
• Experience with ServiceNow or equivalent tools.
• Knowledge of production support models, escalation, service transition, and knowledge management.
• Ability to create runbooks and technical documentation.
• Experience with QA, release governance, and operational readiness.
• Experience validating changes and managing Development, Test, and Production environments.
• Understanding of deployment evidence reviews, rollback planning, and identifying gaps before go-live.
• Experience with monitoring, logging, dashboards, Azure DevOps, Git, CI/CD tooling, automation.

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 established 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 and reduce issue recurrence.
• 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 are in place.
• 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

Microsoft Fabric

Azure Databricks

ITSM

ServiceNow

CI/CD tooling

PowerShell scripting

Python scripting

Terraform knowledge

Azure Monitor

Security controls

Tools

ServiceNow

Git

Azure DevOps

Terraform

PowerShell

Python

Job description

Norton Rose Fulbright is seeking a Data Platform Engineer to operate our Azure-based data platform across EMEA. The role is hands-on, focusing on platform health, security, governance and CI/CD pipelines.

You will work with Architecture, Security, Service Delivery and external suppliers to ensure reliable deployment, runbooks, monitoring and incident response, with emphasis on automation and continuous improvement.