About the role
We are looking for a Senior Data Platform Engineer to help drive the evolution of our Azure-based Data Platform and Lakehouse architecture.
This role is focused on the platform itself. The professional will own and evolve the foundations that data product teams build on: Apache Airflow orchestration (migrating from ADF), Azure resource management (Key Vault, identity and access, networking, storage), Azure DevOps CI/CD and Infrastructure as Code, Databricks and Unity Catalog governance, observability and cost efficiency, while remaining hands-on and close to the teams that use the platform.
Key Responsibilities
Orchestration Platform (Apache Airflow & ADF) • Own the Apache Airflow platform: environments, deployment, upgrades, configuration, connections, variables, pools and DAG standards. • Work on the migration from Azure Data Factory to Airflow and the evolution of the Metadata-Driven Orchestration Framework (DAG generation, reusable operators, dependency and scheduling patterns). • Ensure Airflow is reliable and observable: SLAs, alerting, retries, backfills, health monitoring and clear failure ownership.
Azure Resource Management • Manage Azure resources with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform): Databricks workspaces, Data Lake Storage, Data Factory, Key Vault, networking and supporting services. • Own secrets and identity management: Key Vault, service principals and managed identities, secret scopes and rotation. • Own access management: Azure RBAC, Entra ID groups, Unity Catalog grants and ownership, following least privilege, plus access requests and periodic reviews. • Own Azure DevOps: repositories, CI/CD pipelines, branch policies and multi-environment promotion, including deployment validation and Terraform state. • Track cost and governance of Azure resources: tagging, budgets, right-sizing and cost attribution (e.g. query tagging).
Hands-on Data Platform evolution • Contribute to the implementation of the Data Catalog and Data Quality Framework and it’s lineage across the platform. • Drive observability: pipelines that are observable, debuggable and alert-driven, with clear ownership of failures. • Operate the Databricks platform: Unity Catalog structure, cluster and job policies, Auto Loader ingestion patterns, and performance and cost optimization of workloads.
Technical Leadership • Participate in architecture reviews and technical decision-making, stating trade-offs (performance, cost, reliability, complexity) with data. • Define and promote engineering standards: naming conventions, patterns and guidelines, through code reviews and design reviews. • Collaborate with Architects, Product Owners and data engineers in technical maturation of data products. • Build and maintain developer tooling and automation, including AI-assisted engineering workflows (shared agent instructions, skills, automated PR review).
Support & Operations (Run Team Collaboration) • Provide second-line support to the Run/Operations team for complex production topics. • Troubleshoot and resolve platform incidents, failures and performance issues; lead root cause analysis and post-mortems. • Ensure proper handover, documentation and operational readiness of platform changes. • Continuously improve runbooks, monitoring and operational processes.
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