Data Platform Manager

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EMEA IT Applications Job Description

Norton Rose Fulbright is a global law firm with more than 3,000 lawyers advising clients across locations in the United States, Europe, Canada, Latin America, Asia, Australia, Africa and the Middle East. We provide a full scope of legal services to the world’s preeminent corporations and financial institutions.

Our vision is to be a world class business, profitable, ambitious, cooperative and considerate, supporting our clients and people through our global business principles of Quality, Unity and Integrity.

With over 7,000 employees worldwide, our culture is the thread that connects us. Our strategy and culture are closed connected – defined by shared ambition, global collaboration and a one-team mindset. We believe pioneering work happens when people are empowered to think beyond boundaries, explore new opportunities and grow through diverse experiences. Alongside the right skills and experience, we are looking for people who are innovative, commercially minded, and motivated by the impact of the work they do – ready to share in our ambition and help shape what comes next.

Because while individuals can do well, together we achieve something extraordinary.

The Role

We have embarked on an exciting programme of strategic importance to the firm. As Data Platform Owner, you will play a crucial role in managing the platform that forms the foundation for the data products the firm is building to support the business across the EMEA Region. The data platform manager will be the focal point for enabling the broader and deeper use of our data to provide insights to the firm. The role will build and will manage the data platform team to execute on the firm’s strategy to use data to drive strategic decision making.

The role provides hands-on delivery and operational support for our data platform, to help ensure that we have a platform that remains performant and responsive to business needs in alignment with data governance standards.

The Team

The role reports to the Senior Integrations, Development and Data manager in the Business Enablement team. The role has key relationships with data stewards, data product owners and IT stakeholders. The Business Enablement team ensures that the firm has the tried and tested tools lawyers need to do their jobs efficiently and effectively.

Key Responsibilities

• Willing to get hands-on managing the platform and getting involved in service delivery as required by the business.
• Own the end-to-end data platform roadmap, aligning analytics and data science capabilities to firm, practice group and client priorities
• Accountable for the architecture and lifecycle of the data platform, covering ingestion, storage, analytics and machine learning
• Enable data science and advanced analytics use cases including predictive models, experimentation, AI and GenAI within a governed environment
• Ensure the platform supports secure access to structured and unstructured data, including client, matter, financial and document metadata
• Define and enforce data governance, quality and compliance, working closely with Risk, Privacy and Information Security teams
• Act as the primary business and leadership for the data platform, collaborating with business leaders to translate legal and operational needs into data capabilities or products
• Oversee platform operability, scalability and cost management, working with engineering and infrastructure teams
• Lead vendor management and capability development, ensuring tools, skills and standards support responsible and scalable data science adoption

Key Skills and Experience

• Own end-to-end EMEAPAC data platform across design, delivery and steady-state operation
• Strong understanding of Databricks and Fabric architecture, including Lakehouse patterns
• Ability to oversee ingestion, transformation and reporting layers across enterprise data flows
• Working knowledge of Databricks (Delta Lake, pipelines, orchestration) and Fabric (Power BI, semantic models)
• Experience in operating appropriate governance over data quality, lineage, access and cross-border data controls
• Operate within structured service wrap, including L1–L4 support and formal service acceptance
• Ability to monitor platform performance, reliability and adoption in live operation
• Strong understanding of security, RBAC and integration with Azure AD and enterprise controls
• Awareness of cost, performance and scalability trade-offs across compute and storage
• Familiarity with DevOps practices including CI/CD, environment management and controlled releases

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Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

To attract the best people, we strive to create a diverse and inclusive environment where everyone can bring their whole selves to work, have a sense of belonging, and realize their full career potential.
Our new enabled work model allows our people to have more flexibility in the way they choose to work from both the office and a remote location, while continuing to deliver the highest standards of service. We offer a range of family friendly and inclusive employment policies and provide access to programmes and services aimed at nurturing our people’s health and overall wellbeing. Find more about Diversity, Equity and Inclusion here.

We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer and encourage applications from individuals who can complement our existing teams. We strive to create an inclusive and accessible recruitment process for all candidates. If you require any tailored adjustments or accommodations, please let us know here.