Senior Azure Data Platform Engineer – Lakehouse & Governance

Freshfields; Raleigh (NC); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Freshfields US LLP seeks a Senior Data Platform Engineer to manage and evolve cloud‑native Data Office platforms across Azure, Databricks, Unity Catalog, and governance tools. You will deliver secure, scalable lakehouse solutions, data pipelines, and robust data access controls while partnering with architecture, security, and operations teams.

The role requires deep data engineering capability, platform engineering accountability, and hands‑on delivery across ingestion, integration, and

Qualifications

• 5–10 years of hands‑on data platform/engineering experience.
• Experience with Azure and enterprise platform governance.

Responsibilities

• Manage the Data Office platform estate across Azure, Databricks, Unity Catalog, Collibra, and Immuta.
• Monitor and optimize platform performance, workloads, storage, and compute.
• Design, build, and maintain secure lakehouse solutions using Azure Data Lake Storage and Delta Lake.
• Develop and optimize batch and streaming ingestion, ETL/ELT pipelines.
• Provide observability, incident response, and cost reporting for enterprise data products.

Skills

Databricks

Unity Catalog

Azure

Python

SQL

Collibra

Immuta

Terraform

Git

Azure DevOps

GitHub Actions

dbt

Airflow

Kubernetes

ETL/ELT

Cost optimization

Observability

Tools

Databricks

Azure Data Factory

Terraform

Git

Azure DevOps

GitHub Actions

dbt

Apache Airflow

Kubernetes

PowerShell/Python scripting

Job description

Freshfields US LLP seeks a Senior Data Platform Engineer to manage and evolve cloud‑native Data Office platforms across Azure, Databricks, Unity Catalog, and governance tools. You will deliver secure, scalable lakehouse solutions, data pipelines, and robust data access controls while partnering with architecture, security, and operations teams.

The role requires deep data engineering capability, platform engineering accountability, and hands‑on delivery across ingestion, integration, and