Senior Data Engineer – Azure

22 Hours ago • 7 Years +

About the job

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This is a hands on data platform engineering role that places significant emphasis on consultative data engineering engagements with a wide range of customer stakeholders; Business Owners, Business Analytics, Data Engineering teams, Application Development, End Users and Management teams.

Design and build resilient and efficient data pipelines for batch and real-time streaming
Architect and design data infrastructure on cloud using Infrastructure-as-Code tools.
Collaborate with product managers, software engineers, data analysts, and data scientists to build scalable and data-driven platforms and tools.
Provide technical product expertise, advise on deployment architectures, and handle in-depth technical questions around data infrastructure, PaaS services, design patterns and implementation approaches.
Collaborate with enterprise architects, data architects, ETL developers & engineers, data scientists, and information designers to lead the identification and definition of required data structures, formats, pipelines, metadata, and workload orchestration capabilities
Address aspects such as data privacy & security, data ingestion & processing, data storage & compute, analytical & operational consumption, data modeling, data virtualization, self-service data preparation & analytics, AI enablement, and API integrations.
Lead a team of engineers to deliver impactful results at scale.
Execute projects with an Agile mindset.
Build software frameworks to solve data problems at scale.

· 7+ years of data engineering experience leading implementations of large-scale lakehouses on Databricks, Snowflake, or Synapse. Prior experience using DBT and PowerBI will be a plus.

· 3+ years' experience architecting solutions for developing data pipelines from structured, unstructured sources for batch and realtime workloads.

· Extensive experience with Azure data services (Databricks, Synapse, ADF) and related azure infrastructure services like firewall, storage, key vault etc. is required.

· Strong programming / scripting experience using SQL and python and Spark.

· Strong Data Modeling, Data lakehouse concepts.

· Knowledge of software configuration management environments and tools such as JIRA, Git, Jenkins, TFS, Shell, PowerShell, Bitbucket.

· Experience with Agile development methods in data-oriented projects

· Highly motivated self-starter and team player and demonstrated success in prior roles.

· Track record of success working through technical challenges within enterprise organizations

· Ability to prioritize deals, training, and initiatives through highly effective time management

· Excellent problem solving, analytical, presentation, and whiteboarding skills

· Track record of success dealing with ambiguity (internal and external) and working collaboratively with other departments and organizations to solve challenging problems

· Strong knowledge of technology and industry trends that affect data analytics decisions for enterprise organizations

· Certifications on Azure Data Engineering and related technologies.