Senior Azure Data Platform Engineer

Freshfields seeks a Senior Azure Data Platform Engineer with Databricks and lakehouse expertise to manage secure, scalable enterprise data platforms.This senior role provides day-to-day engineering and technical management across Microsoft Azure, Databricks, Unity Catalog, and integration services. You will maintain platform health, availability, security, performance, and cost efficiency. The work supports analytics, business intelligence, artificial intelligence, and machine learning through trusted data products.Key Responsibilities:
Manage Azure, Databricks, Unity Catalog, Collibra, and Immuta platformsOptimize clusters, workloads, storage, compute, scheduling, and costsBuild lakehouse solutions using Delta Lake, Spark, PySpark, Python, and SQLDevelop batch and streaming pipelines with Azure Data FactoryLead incidents, root-cause analysis, remediation, and problem managementRequirements:
Five to ten years of relevant hands-on engineering experienceAdvanced Databricks experience, including Spark, Workflows, and performance tuningStrong Microsoft Azure, Python, and SQL skillsExperience managing production enterprise data platformsExperience with infrastructure as code, CI/CD, and monitoringBring Azure, Databricks, lakehouse, and platform engineering expertise to Freshfields' trusted enterprise data ecosystem.
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