EMEA Data Platform Lead - Analytics & AI

NRF United Kingdom; Newcastle upon Tyne; On-site; GBP 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Norton Rose Fulbright, a leading global law firm, seeks a Data Platform Owner to manage the foundational data platform that underpins data products across the EMEA region. You will deliver hands-on leadership, drive the platform roadmap and ensure secure access to diverse data sources to support strategic decisions.

The role includes governance, collaboration with Risk and Security, and leading a team in implementing analytics, AI, and ML capabilities within a controlled environment.

Qualifications

• Experience owning end-to-end data platform across design, delivery and steady-state operation.
• Strong understanding of Databricks and Fabric architecture.
• Experience with ingestion, transformation and reporting layers across enterprise data flows.
• Knowledge of governance, data quality and cross-border data controls.
• Experience with DevOps practices including CI/CD and controlled releases.

Responsibilities

• Hands-on managing the data platform and participating in service delivery.
• Own end-to-end data-platform roadmap, aligning analytics and data-science capabilities with firm, practice-group and client priorities.
• Architect and govern the platform lifecycle: ingestion, storage, analytics and ML layers.
• Enable data-science and analytics use cases including predictive models and GenAI within a governed environment.
• Ensure platform supports secure access to structured and unstructured data.
• Define and enforce data governance, quality and compliance with Risk, Privacy and Info-Security teams.
• Act as primary business and leadership contact for the data platform and translate needs into data capabilities.
• Oversee platform operability, scalability and cost management with engineering teams.
• Lead vendor management and capability development for scalable data-science adoption.

Skills

Data platform ownership

Databricks architecture

Fabric architecture

Data pipelines

RBAC & Azure AD

Security governance

CI/CD

Data governance

Power BI integration

Cost management

L1–L4 support

Tools

Databricks

Delta Lake

Power BI

Azure AD

Job description

Norton Rose Fulbright, a leading global law firm, seeks a Data Platform Owner to manage the foundational data platform that underpins data products across the EMEA region. You will deliver hands-on leadership, drive the platform roadmap and ensure secure access to diverse data sources to support strategic decisions.

The role includes governance, collaboration with Risk and Security, and leading a team in implementing analytics, AI, and ML capabilities within a controlled environment.