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Posted 5 days ago
Senior Data EngineerDatavail
Senior Data Engineer
Anywhere USA, United StatesRemoteFull-time
AI Summary
Designs, builds and maintains production batch, incremental, real-time and near-real-time data pipelines and dimensional or Data Vault models on Microsoft Fabric and Azure, while leading client-facing engineering workstreams and mentoring team members.
About this role
- 8+ years in data engineering/data warehousing; 3+ years delivering Azure solutions and production
- Microsoft Fabric experience
- Advanced T-SQL, Spark SQL, Python/PySpark; working knowledge of KQL and DAX
- Deep experience with Delta Lake, Spark tuning, medallion/lakehouse patterns, CDC and incremental loading
- Strong dimensional modeling and working knowledge of Data Vault 2.0
- Practical CI/CD, Git, automated testing, infrastructure as code, DataOps, governance and security experience
- Professional-services/client-facing delivery experience
- Authorization to work in the US and ability to travel up to 15%
- Preferred: DP-700, DP-600, DP-203; streaming/event-driven, RAG/GenAI, Fabric IQ/data agents, and industry experience
- Design, build and maintain production-grade batch, incremental, real-time and near-real-time data pipelines across Microsoft Fabric and Azure
- Implement CDC, watermarking, merge/upsert, late-arriving-data and idempotent reprocessing patterns
- Develop PySpark, Spark SQL and T-SQL transformations across bronze, silver and gold Delta Lake layers
- Build Fabric solutions using OneLake, Lakehouse, Warehouse, Data Factory, Dataflows Gen2, Spark notebooks, Real-Time Intelligence and Power BI
- Implement dimensional and Data Vault models, data-quality testing, reconciliation, observability, logging, alerting and SLA monitoring
- Establish Git-based CI/CD and automated deployment using Azure DevOps or GitHub, Fabric deployment pipelines, REST APIs, Bicep and Terraform
- Apply Purview catalog/lineage, least-privilege access, sensitivity controls, encryption and secure connectivity
- Support migrations from SQL Server, SSIS, SSAS, legacy warehouses and Synapse to Fabric/Azure, including conversion, reconciliation and cutover
- Prepare governed data for AI/ML and RAG workloads, including ingestion, chunking, embeddings, indexing and telemetry
- Lead engineering workstreams, estimates, risk management, client communication, mentoring, reusable accelerators and operational handover
Skills
AzureAzure DevOpsBicepData FactoryData Vault 2.0DAXDelta LakeDimensional ModelingKQLMicrosoft FabricOneLakePower BIPurviewPySparkPythonSpark SQLTerraformT-SQL
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