Practice Group / Department:
EMEA IT Applications
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
The Data Platform Engineer will ensure Norton Rose Fulbright’s enterprise data platform is a stable,secureand supportable IT service.The platform is built on Azure Databricks, MicrosoftFabricand associated Azure services, supports the firm's strategic data capability across EMEA and EMEAPAC, and is governed through Terraform, Azure DevOps and astandardiseddeployment framework.
The role is hands-on andservice-focused It provides the operational foundation needed to keep the platform reliable, observable,governedand ready for controlled production use. Its emphasis is on platform health, support processes, quality assurance, release readiness, incidentresponseand continual service improvement.
The successful candidate will work closely with Architecture, Information Security, Service Delivery, Infrastructure,suppliersand consuming business teams toensure platformchanges are deployed safely through established CI/CD processes, supported byappropriate monitoring, operational controls,documentationand governance standards.
Key Responsibilities
Quality, Monitoring and Governance
A key part of the role is to define and execute operational QA checks for platform changes,integrationsand supplier-delivered components. The engineer will verify that monitoring, alerting, logging, access controls, runbooks, escalationroutesand support processes are in place before production release. They will support service acceptance and transition activity, assessing readiness against availability, recoverability, supportability,securityand control requirements.
The role will implement andmaintainmonitoring, alerting and observability across Fabric, Databricks and Azure services. It will develop service health reporting, operationaldashboardsand exception monitoring, andmaintainrunbooks, known error records, support documentation and knowledge articles. The engineer will contribute to service reviews, operationalassuranceand continual improvement.
The role will support governance,securityand compliance byassistingwith access control, role management, privileged access processes, audit evidence, metadata, lineage,auditabilityand policy enforcement. It will work with Risk, Privacy, InformationSecurityand Architecture to ensure platform operationsremainaligned with NRF policies, approved architecturepatternsand applicable control requirements.
Key Skills and Experience
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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
Norton Rose Fulbright provides a full scope of legal services to the world’s preeminent corporations and financial institutions. Our global law firm has more than 3,000 lawyers advising clients across more than 50 locations worldwide, including Houston, New York, London, Toronto, Mexico City, Hong Kong, Sydney and Johannesburg, covering the United States, Europe, Canada, Latin America, Asia, Australia, Africa and the Middle East. We are recognized for our client service in key industries, including financial institutions; energy, infrastructure and resources; technology; transport; life sciences and healthcare; and consumer markets. Our sector focus extends across our locations and gives us the ability to transcend traditional law firm boundaries, allowing our lawyers to interconnect and share knowledge across jurisdictions, practice groups and regulatory fronts to provide an integrated and streamlined service globally. Wherever we are, we operate in accordance with our global business principles of quality, unity and integrity. We aim to provide the highest possible standard of legal service in each of our offices and to maintain that level of quality at every point of contact.
