About the job

For a leading financial institution in the Utrecht region, we are looking for a Senior Azure Data Platform Engineer who will play a key role in designing, managing and improving the infrastructure that enables reliable data processing and regulatory reporting.You will work in a highly regulated banking environment where availability, security, scalability and operational excellence are essential. Together with Data Engineers, you will ensure that data platforms are stable, performant and ready to support critical financial processes such as liquidity reporting and regulatory compliance.

This role focuses strongly on the platform and infrastructure side of data engineering. You will not primarily build ETL solutions yourself, but enable Data Engineers by providing a reliable Azure data platform, automation, security and operational capabilities.

• What will you do?Azure Data Platform & InfrastructureDesign, build and maintain scalable Azure data platform components;
• Manage and optimize Azure services supporting enterprise data processing;
• Support Azure Data Factory, Azure Databricks and Azure Synapse environments from an infrastructure perspective;
• Ensure availability, performance and reliability of data platforms;
• Troubleshoot platform-related issues and improve operational stability;
• Support the evolution from legacy data solutions towards modern cloud-based platforms.

• Collaboration with Data Engineering TeamsWork closely with Data Engineers responsible for ETL pipelines and data transformations;
• Provide the technical foundation needed for reliable data processing;
• Support deployment, configuration and lifecycle management of data workloads;
• Improve development, testing and deployment processes for data solutions;
• Help teams adopt standardized ways of working.

• Cloud Engineering & AutomationImplement Infrastructure-as-Code solutions using tools such as Terraform or ARM/Bicep;
• Automate provisioning, configuration and operational processes;
• Support CI/CD pipelines for data platform components;
• Improve monitoring, logging and alerting capabilities;
• Contribute to platform engineering standards and best practices.

• Security, Governance & ComplianceEnsure Azure environments comply with banking security standards;
• Implement access control, identity management and security policies;
• Support data governance, lineage and audit requirements;
• Contribute to compliance with regulatory frameworks such as BCBS 239 principles;
• Ensure environments are secure, traceable and operationally controlled.