Technical Lead, Cloud Data Platform

RSM UK; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid and Flexible working

26 Days Holiday (with option to buy)

Lifestyle, Health & Wellbeing benefits

Access to 300+ courses on demand

Job summary

RSM UK is seeking a Technical Lead to join the Data, Analytics & AI team to lead the design and delivery of Datacore on the firm’s cloud data platform, across Microsoft Fabric, Azure Databricks and Azure services.

You will enable federated and client-facing teams, translate architectural principles into platform capabilities, and promote reusable patterns with a focus on scalable, secure, observable data products.

Qualifications

• Significant experience in cloud data engineering and data platform delivery.
• Strong practical knowledge of Microsoft Fabric, Azure Databricks and Azure data services.
• Ability to translate architectural principles into implementation patterns and standards.
• Experience delivering scalable, secure data products or cloud data services.
• Understanding of lakehouse architectures, medallion patterns and data publication.
• Experience guiding federated or distributed delivery teams with reusable patterns.
• Strong communication skills to explain decisions and risks to stakeholders.
• Hands-on credibility with SQL, Python, Spark, notebooks, orchestration tools, APIs.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership for Datacore platform capabilities and cloud data services.
• Support client-facing teams in adopting Datacore safely and consistently.
• Define reusable implementation patterns for Datacore use cases.
• Promote controlled engineering practices across Datacore assets.
• Identify opportunities to improve Datacore efficiency, lineage, observability and cost.
• Collaborate with data architects, business partners and stakeholders to align delivery with priorities.

Skills

Cloud data engineering

Data platform delivery

Data product implementation

Microsoft Fabric

Azure Databricks

Azure data services

Architectural principles

Data product design

Data ingestion

Data orchestration

Medallion architecture

Communication skills

SQL

Python

Spark

APIs

Cloud data platforms

Job description

RSM UK is seeking a Technical Lead to join the Data, Analytics & AI team to lead the design and delivery of Datacore on the firm’s cloud data platform, across Microsoft Fabric, Azure Databricks and Azure services.

You will enable federated and client-facing teams, translate architectural principles into platform capabilities, and promote reusable patterns with a focus on scalable, secure, observable data products.