Senior Data Platform Leader | Azure Fabric & AI Enablement

Emanuelchamber; Peachtree City (GA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Short-Term Incentive Bonus

3 weeks vacation to start

401(k) matching

Employee Share Purchase Program

Extended Health & Dental

Job summary

Interfor’s Data & Analytics leadership is seeking a Manager, Data Platform in Peachtree City to guide a team spanning DBA, platform engineering, and data engineering. You will set technical direction, establish standards, and partner with IT, business, and vendors to deliver enterprise data capabilities.

The role emphasizes reliability, scalability, and continuous improvement of the data platform, with efforts toward Fabric adoption and a high-performing team to enable trusted analytics for

Qualifications

• 8+ years of progressive experience across database administration, data engineering, data platform management, cloud data platforms, or related enterprise technology roles.
• 3+ years leading, supervising, or mentoring technical staff responsible for enterprise-scale data platforms, analytics platforms, or critical business systems.
• Strong Microsoft SQL Server expertise, including administration, tuning, security, patching, backup/recovery, HA/DR.
• Experience with modern data platform practices: Azure, cloud modernization, DevOps/CI/CD, automation, monitoring, cost management.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach, and develop the DBA team, setting priorities and operating standards with senior technical staff.
• Ensure SQL platform reliability across performance, security, patching, backup/recovery, HA/DR, release management, and on-call/incident response.
• Drive evolution of Interfor’s data platform with Microsoft Fabric adoption and modern data engineering practices.
• Establish reusable standards for DevOps, automation, security, integration, testing, data quality, and platform operations.
• Coach data engineers to deliver trusted data products while evolving the data warehouse and lakehouse architecture.
• Govern platform services with strong access controls and cost management across Azure, SQL Server, and Power BI.

Skills

Database leadership

SQL Server

Cloud data platforms

DevOps / CI/CD

Data platform management

Team mentoring

Stakeholder engagement

Architectural direction

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/SE/IS/Data & Analytics

Master’s degree preferred

Tools

Microsoft Fabric

Azure SQL

Azure SQL Managed Instance

Azure Synapse

Databricks

Snowflake

Job description

Interfor’s Data & Analytics leadership is seeking a Manager, Data Platform in Peachtree City to guide a team spanning DBA, platform engineering, and data engineering. You will set technical direction, establish standards, and partner with IT, business, and vendors to deliver enterprise data capabilities.

The role emphasizes reliability, scalability, and continuous improvement of the data platform, with efforts toward Fabric adoption and a high-performing team to enable trusted analytics for