Data Platform Ops Lead - Azure, Real-Time Pipelines

The Panel; Dublin; Hybrid; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

The Panel is seeking a hands-on Data Platform Engineer to keep our Azure-based data platform running with uptime, timely refreshes and trusted data. You will own the platform, manage suppliers, and lead root-cause analysis when issues arise, ensuring robust security and governance in a hybrid on-site/remote setup.

You will work with Microsoft Fabric, Azure SQL, ETL/ELT, data warehousing, modelling, and Power BI, pushing towards near-real-time reporting and strong incident management.

Qualifications

• 6+ years in data engineering or data platform operations.
• Hands-on ownership of a production platform.
• Strong hands-on experience with Microsoft data stack: Fabric, Azure SQL, ETL/ELT, data warehousing, data modelling and Power BI.
• Experience monitoring, alerting, incident management and data quality controls.
• Data governance experience and strong data security awareness.
• Good data architecture knowledge applied to keeping a platform robust and well designed.
• Strong focus on process improvement and continuous improvement.
• Experience managing third-party and managed-service providers to SLA.
• Familiarity with DevOps or DataOps practices; exposure to Copilot, data agents or real‑time data is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Be accountable for the data platform working every day: uptime, on-time refreshes and trusted data.
• Act as the senior escalation point when something breaks, lead root-cause analysis, and own the permanent fix.
• Run monitoring, alerting and automation across data and reporting pipelines, and meet agreed SLAs.
• Move reporting towards real-time where possible, working with streaming and near-real-time pipelines.
• Manage suppliers: the managed-service provider for front-line monitoring and the delivery partner on Fabric and Purview.
• Drive process improvement and continuous improvement: runbooks, SLAs and repeatable ways of working.
• Embed data governance, quality and security controls, and keep the platform aligned with best-practice data architecture.

Skills

Data engineering

Data platform operations

Azure stack

Microsoft Fabric

Azure SQL

ETL/ELT

Power BI

DevOps / DataOps

Incident management

Data governance

Data security awareness

Root cause analysis

SLA management

Tools

Copilot

Data agents

Purview

Fabric

Job description

The Panel is seeking a hands-on Data Platform Engineer to keep our Azure-based data platform running with uptime, timely refreshes and trusted data. You will own the platform, manage suppliers, and lead root-cause analysis when issues arise, ensuring robust security and governance in a hybrid on-site/remote setup.

You will work with Microsoft Fabric, Azure SQL, ETL/ELT, data warehousing, modelling, and Power BI, pushing towards near-real-time reporting and strong incident management.