Data Platform Consultant

Role Overview

The Data Platform Consultant is responsible for configuring and supporting client data, analytics, or catalogue platforms within pre-approved architectural, security, and operational frameworks. This role translates platform requirements into tailored environments, access configurations, integrations, monitoring setups, and deployment strategies that ensure reliability and alignment with client delivery goals.

Main Responsibilities

• Analyze platform requirements, assess current environments, integrations, constraints, user demographics, and service expectations.
• Facilitate platform selection and implementation planning through comprehensive functional and non-functional evaluations.
• Configure authorized environments including workspaces, roles, permissions, connections, and platform services.
• Execute integrations with source systems, identity services, catalogs, analytics tools, or data pipelines as permitted.
• Enforce security policies including privacy, classification, logging, encryption, and privileged access controls.
• Set up monitoring, alerting, capacity planning, performance tracking, and service-level measurements.
• Support backup, recovery, continuity, and environment restoration protocols to maintain platform integrity.
• Maintain detailed configuration records, manage versioning, release notes, and coordinate deployments through formal client change management processes.
• Diagnose implementation defects, collaborate with vendors for support, and document root causes and solutions.
• Verify platform operation against approved requirements and assist with user and operational acceptance testing.
• Create administration manuals, runbooks, support frameworks, and escalation pathways.
• Provide training to client administrators and users, and ensure a structured operational handover upon project completion.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or diploma in information technology, computer science, or related discipline.
• Equivalent relevant education combined with applicable consulting or implementation experience may be accepted.

Experience Requirements

• Between 3 and 7 years managing enterprise data, analytics, catalog, or cloud platforms.
• Hands-on experience administering, configuring, or implementing data, analytics, catalog, or cloud platforms.
• Skilled in identity management, access control, integration, monitoring, deployment, and operational support.
• Experience operating under formalized change, security, and production access regulations.
• Proficient in coordinating with vendors and facilitating platform transitions to client operational teams.

Technical Expertise

• Enterprise or cloud data platform administration skills.
• Environment and workspace configuration management.
• Expertise in roles, permissions, identity, and privileged-access controls.
• Platform service configuration and connectivity integration.
• Setting up monitoring, logging, alerting, capacity, and performance management systems.
• Implementing backup, recovery, and business continuity procedures.
• Understanding release, change, and incident management processes.
• Documenting operational procedures, support models, and coordinating with vendors.

Core Competencies

• Accurate platform administration.
• Identity and access management.
• Real-time monitoring and alerting.
• Managing change and releases responsibly.
• Backup and disaster recovery readiness.
• Providing user support and operational discipline.
• Ensuring configuration precision and service reliability.
• Effective troubleshooting and root cause analysis.
• Gathering requirements and documenting configuration decisions.
• Communicating technical limitations and options clearly to stakeholders.
• Adhering to safe, controlled access and change procedures.
• Producing test documentation, runbooks, and support guides.
• Collaborating across vendor, infrastructure, security, and delivery teams.
• Demonstrating platform capabilities and training administrators.
• Supporting transition phases without assuming production ownership.

Preferred Certifications

• Platform-specific administrator credentials.
• Cloud administrator certifications.
• IT service management certifications.

Focus Areas

• Platform administration
• Identity and access management
• Monitoring