# Data Platform Owner

**Company**: Norton Rose Fulbright
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Data Science
**Industry**: Consulting

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## 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.

The role of Data Platform Owner is part of an exciting programme of strategic importance to the firm. 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.

**Key Responsibilities**

- Manage the platform and get 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.

- Be 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.

- 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**

- 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.

## Skills

### Required
- Databricks
- Fabric
- Lakehouse patterns
- Data governance
- Data quality
- Data lineage
- Azure AD
- DevOps

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