Data Platform Manager

About the role

Norton Rose Fulbright, a global law firm, is recruiting a Data Platform Manager (Data Platform Owner) in its EMEA IT Applications practice group. You will manage the data platform that underpins the firm's data products for the EMEA region and act as the focal point for using data to give the firm deeper insights and support strategic decisions. The role reports to the Senior Integrations, Development and Data manager in the Business Enablement team.

Key responsibilities

• Manage the platform hands-on and take part in service delivery as required by the business
• Own the end-to-end data platform roadmap, aligning analytics and data science capabilities with firm, practice group and client priorities
• Be accountable for the platform architecture and lifecycle, covering ingestion, storage, analytics and machine learning
• Enable data science and advanced analytics use cases such as predictive models, experimentation, AI and GenAI within a governed environment
• Ensure secure access to structured and unstructured data, including client, matter, financial and document metadata
• Define and enforce data governance, quality and compliance, working with Risk, Privacy and Information Security
• Translate legal and operational needs into data capabilities or products with business leaders
• Oversee operability, scalability and cost, and lead vendor management and capability development

Required profile

• Owns the end-to-end EMEA data platform across design, delivery and steady-state operation
• Experience operating governance over data quality, lineage, access and cross-border data controls
• Works within a structured service wrap, including L1-L4 support and formal service acceptance
• Monitors platform performance, reliability and adoption in live operation
• Aware of cost, performance and scalability trade-offs across compute and storage

Required skills

• Databricks and Fabric architecture, including Lakehouse patterns
• Databricks (Delta Lake, pipelines, orchestration) and Fabric (Power BI, semantic models)
• Security, RBAC and integration with Azure AD and enterprise controls
• DevOps practices including CI/CD, environment management and controlled releases

The role is listed as hybrid (#LI-Hybrid).