Data Platform Manager

Data Platform Manager focuses on drive the platform roadmap across infrastructure, tooling, governance, monitoring, and operational maturity.

What the role involves

• Drive the platform roadmap across infrastructure, tooling, governance, monitoring, and operational maturity.
• Work closely with data engineering and architecture teams to improve platform design, performance, reliability, and scalability.
• Driving best practice across platform management including access control, cost optimisation, observability, incident management, and operational governance.
• Challenge and guide technical decisions to ensure solutions are robust, reusable, and aligned to long term platform strategy.
• Supporting the evolution of a modern lakehouse environment and help embed scalable self service analytics capabilities across the organisation.
• Ensure high levels of operational performance and platform adoption.

Skills and requirements

• Strong commercial experience owning or managing enterprise scale cloud data platforms.
• Experience managing modern lakehouse or cloud data environments within complex organisations.
• Experience supporting data platform transformation programmes and enabling self service analytics capabilities at scale.

Additional role context

• Take end to end ownership of the Databricks platform, ensuring it is scalable, secure, well governed, and aligned to business and technical priorities.
• Communicate progress, risks, and outcomes clearly.
• Collaborate with business stakeholders and market teams to prioritise platform enhancements.

Known job details

• Pay: £85,000