Data Platform Engineer - Azure

Job Description

I am looking for a Freelance, Finnish-speaking, Azure Data Platform Engineer to take ownership of a modern Azure-based data platform, with a focus on standardisation, security, and operational excellence. This role sits at the platform level, enabling multiple data teams to deliver data products quickly, securely, and consistently.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, build, and evolve a standardised Data Landing Zone / Lakehouse platform in Azure
• Create reusable frameworks, patterns, and golden paths to enable uniform ways of working across data teams
• Build metadata- and configuration-driven ingestion frameworks to onboard new data sources efficiently
• Ensure strong security and governance across the platform, including identity and access management (RBAC, managed identities, Key Vault, policies, logging)
• Establish and maintain CI/CD pipelines, deployment patterns, and environment structures (dev/t...