Data Platforms Senior Specialist - Analytics & Microsoft Fabric

Description

At Lavazza Group, we’re looking for a Data Platforms Senior Specialist to join our Tech & Digital – Data Platforms team and play a key role in driving Data Analytics initiatives across the organization.

In this role, you’ll lead the delivery of analytical solutions and support the evolution of data‑driven processes, ensuring strong alignment between business needs, corporate data governance standards, and technology choices — with a strong focus on Microsoft Fabric.

You’ll act as a strategic partner for business stakeholders, coordinating requirements, guiding technical developments, managing suppliers, and contributing to budget definition and continuous process improvement.

📊 Your day‑to‑day activities

• Lead the end‑to‑end delivery of Data Analytics initiatives, from requirements gathering to go‑live.
• Translate business needs into functional and technical specifications, ensuring clarity and feasibility.
• Oversee solution design and development, ensuring alignment with Microsoft Fabric best practices and architectural standards.
• Guide and supervise external development partners across all implementation phases.
• Collaborate closely with Key Users to support adoption of analytics and reporting solutions.
• Provide third‑level support for analytics and reporting incidents.
• Monitor market and technology trends, contributing to the continuous evolution of the analytical ecosystem.
• Support budget definition and contract management for analytics initiatives.

✨ What you’ll bring

🔧 Technical & Functional Skills

• Strong understanding of Microsoft Fabric architecture and components.
• Good knowledge of Azure Data Factory or equivalent ETL/ELT tools.
• Familiarity with data modeling best practices (Power BI, Lakehouse, Fabric Data Warehouse).
• Ability to review, challenge, and validate technical documentation and architectural proposals.
• Basic proficiency in SQL and DAX.
• Basic understanding of DevOps concepts and release management.
• Awareness of data governance principles (data quality, lineage, access control).

📦 Process & Delivery Oversight

• Support testing, validation, and UAT activities.
• Monitor release quality and compliance with methodologies and standards.
• Contribute to project oversight, ensuring alignment with timelines, scope, and objectives.

🤝 Collaboration & Communication

• Strong communication skills with both business and technical stakeholders.
• Collaborative mindset, working closely with Data Product Owners, Data Stewards, and Key Users.
• High attention to detail and strong critical thinking.
• Proactive attitude in identifying risks, issues, and improvement opportunities.
• Ability to translate technical complexity into business‑friendly language.

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✨ In Return We Offer

• Comprehensive welfare package including short working week during summer months
• Hybrid working policy (10 days a month remote working)
• Company restaurant service
• Access to our corporate gym
• A fast paced and dynamic international context
  
  

💬 What next?

Our Talent Acquisition Team will assess your application and if you have what we’re looking for, you'll be contacted for an initial interview

If you make it to the short list, you’ll be interviewed by the Hiring Manager and if necessary, other members of the hiring panel

In some cases, you may be required to show us your skills via technical challenge.

☕ Who We Are

Our Group was founded in Turin in 1895, has been owned by the Lavazza family for four generations. As one of the world’s most important coffee roasters, we operate in more than 140 countries through our brands, subsidiaries and distributors, with a total of over 5,500 employees.

Every day we operate in all sectors of the coffee industry, offering our products through every channel and positioning our brands as a high-quality blend.

We are a community of single origins united into a perfect blend, humans enriching one another through our mutual diversity.

Awakening a better world every morning: the commitment we make every single day.

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