MANAGER, DATA LAKE PLATFORM
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About the Role
Alfanar is seeking a Manager for its Data Lake Platform to ensure stability, security, scalability, and cost-efficiency. The role involves managing platform operations, performance optimization, data governance, and stakeholder support.
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Responsibilities
- Manage day to day operations of the data lake platform across cloud or on premises environments.
- Ensure high availability, reliability, and performance of data storage and processing services.
- Monitor platform health, identify issues, and lead resolution efforts.
- Optimize infrastructure costs across storage and compute resources.
- Enforce data access controls, security policies, and compliance requirements.
- Implement and maintain data lifecycle management policies (retention, archiving, deletion).
- Coordinate platform upgrades, patches, and feature enhancements.
- Support data engineers, analysts, and data scientists using the platform.
- Define and track KPIs for platform health, cost, and usage.
- Provide regular reporting to leadership on platform performance and risks.
Requirements
- Bachelor Degree in Computer Engineering or any relevant field.
- 6 to 10 years of work experience.
- Experience in data analysis, data lifecycle management, and data planning.
- Ability to manage platform operations, performance, and cost optimization.
- Knowledge of data governance, security, and compliance.
- Experience with cloud or on premises data platforms.
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Job Purpose
- To ensure the data lake platform is stable, secure, scalable, and cost efficient, enabling reliable access to data for analytics, reporting, and data science.
- Maintains platform performance and governance while supporting continuous improvement and collaboration across technical and business teams.
Key Accountability Areas
- Manage the day to day operations of the data lake platform across cloud or on premises environments.
- Ensure high availability, reliability, and performance of data storage and processing services.
- Monitor platform health, identify issues, and lead resolution efforts.
- Oversee compute, storage, and pipeline resource utilization.
- Monitor system performance, usage trends, and capacity requirements.
- Optimize infrastructure costs across storage and compute resources.
- Identify performance bottlenecks and implement corrective improvements.
- Ensure scalability of the platform to support growing data volumes and workloads.
- Enforce data access controls, security policies, and compliance requirements.
- Implement and maintain data lifecycle management policies (retention, archiving, deletion).
- Support internal and external audit requirements.
- Ensure secure handling of sensitive and regulated data.
Academic Qualification & Experience
- Bachelor Degree in Computer Engineering or any relevant field.
- Work Experience: 6 to 10 Years.
- Technical / Functional Competencies: Data Analysis, Data Lifecycle Management, Data Planning.
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