Senior Azure Data Platform Engineer / Team Lead

Myticas Consulting is seeking a Senior Azure Data Platform Engineer / Team Lead for a short-term consulting engagement with a major banking client.

This role will lead the technical assessment and improvement of an enterprise Azure data platform built primarily on Azure Synapse Analytics and Azure Data Factory . The successful consultant will evaluate the platform’s resiliency, disaster recovery capabilities, security, infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD practices and operational readiness, then help define and implement a prioritized remediation plan.

This is a hands-on technical leadership role suited to someone who can assess complex cloud environments, identify risks and gaps, communicate findings clearly to stakeholders, and lead remediation activities through delivery.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the technical assessment of an enterprise Azure data platform

• Review Azure Synapse Analytics and Azure Data Factory architecture and configurations

• Assess platform resiliency, reliability, disaster recovery and backup capabilities

• Review Terraform and Infrastructure-as-Code assets

• Assess and improve CI/CD pipelines and deployment practices

• Evaluate monitoring, security and operational-readiness capabilities

• Identify technical, resiliency, security and recovery gaps

• Develop prioritized recommendations and remediation work packages

• Lead and participate in implementation of approved remediation activities

• Coordinate technical activities across engineering and stakeholder teams

• Validate implemented improvements and document technical outcomes

• Produce updated technical and operational documentation

• Support knowledge transfer and operational handover

Required Qualifications

• Strong hands-on experience with Azure Synapse Analytics

• Strong hands-on experience with Azure Data Factory

• Strong Azure data platform architecture experience

• Experience assessing production platforms for reliability, disaster recovery, security and operational readiness

• Strong hands-on experience with Terraform and Azure Infrastructure as Code

• Experience designing and supporting CI/CD pipelines

• Strong understanding of Azure resiliency, backup and disaster recovery practices

• Demonstrated technical leadership or team-lead experience

• Ability to translate technical findings into a prioritized delivery and remediation plan

• Strong documentation, communication and stakeholder-management skills

• Bilingual French and English

Preferred Experience

• Azure Databricks

• Data governance

• Cloud security

• Financial services or banking

• Experience working within highly regulated environments

• Familiarity with regulatory, audit and operational-resilience requirements

Ideal Candidate

The ideal consultant is a senior Azure engineer who combines deep hands-on technical expertise with strong leadership and client-facing skills. You should be comfortable moving between architecture assessment, detailed technical remediation and stakeholder communication while helping guide an engineering team through a focused delivery engagement.