Data Engineer

Overview

On Site
Depends on Experience
Contract - W2
Contract - Independent

Skills

ADF
Writing
Quality Assurance
Orchestration
PIP
Performance Tuning
Problem Solving
PySpark
Meta-data Management
Network Security
NoSQL
Optimization
High-level Design
JIRA
Level Design
Management
Mentorship
Microsoft Azure
File Formats
GitHub
Google Cloud
Google Cloud Platform
Health Care
Databricks
Design Patterns
DevOps
Enterprise Resource Planning
FOCUS
Git
Data Engineering
Data Lake
Data Management
Data Migration
Data Processing
Conflict Resolution
Continuous Delivery
Continuous Integration
Cost Management
Change Data Capture
Cloud Storage
Collaboration
Communication
Apache Parquet
Apache Spark
Articulate
Auditing
Big Data
Cloud Computing
Python
RBAC
Real-time
SQL Azure
SQL Tuning
Scrum
Software Design
Sourcing
Stakeholder Engagement
Storage
Stored Procedures
Technical Drafting
Terraform
API
ARM
Access Control
Agile
Analytical Skill
Analytics
Apache Kafka
Transact-SQL
Unit Testing
Unity
Version Control
Workflow

Job Details

Job Title: Data Engineer

Location: Greenfield, IN (Onsite)- We can try for remote for Super strong candidates

Duration: Long term contract/ FTE

Job description:

  • 12-15 years experience
  • 4+ years of experience in Azure Databricks with PySpark.
  • 2+ years of experience in Databricks workflow & Unity catalog.
  • 3+ years of experience in ADF (Azure Data Factory).
  • 3+ years of experience in ADLS Gen 2.
  • 3+ years of experience in Azure SQL.
  • 5+ years of experience in Azure Cloud platform.
  • 2+ years of experience in Python programming & package builds.

Key technical skills :

  • Data management experience handling Analytics workload covering design, development, and maintainance of lakehouse solutions sourcing data from platforms such as ERP sources, API sources, Relational stores, NoSQL and on-prem sources using Databricks/PySpark as distributed /big data management service, supporting batch and near-real-time ingestion, transformation, and processing.
  • Ability to optimize Spark jobs and manage large-scale data processing using RDD/DataFrame APIs. Demonstrated expertise in partitioning strategies, file format optimization (Parquet/Delta), and Spark SQL tuning. Familiarity with Databricks runtime versions, cluster policies, libraries, and workspace management.
  • Skilled in governing and manage data access for Azure Data lakehouse with Unity Catalog. Experience in configuring data permissions, object lineage, and access policies with Unity Catalog. Understanding of integrating Unity Catalog with Azure AD, external metastores, and audit trails.
  • Experience in building efficient orchestration solutions using Azure data factory, Databricks Workflows. Ability to design modular, reusable workflows using tasks, triggers, and dependencies. Skilled in using dynamic expressions, parameterized pipelines, custom activities, and triggers.
  • Familiarity with integration runtime configurations, pipeline performance tuning, and error handling strategies.
  • Strong experience in implementing secure, hierarchical namespace-based data lake storage for structured/semi-structured data, aligned to bronze-silver-gold layers with ADLS Gen2. Hands-on experience with lifecycle policies, access control (RBAC/ACLs), and folder-level security. Understanding of best practices in file partitioning, retention management, and storage performance optimization.
  • Capable of developing T-SQL queries, stored procedures, and managing metadata layers on Azure SQL.
  • Comprehensive experience working across the Azure ecosystem, including networking, security, monitoring, and cost management relevant to data engineering workloads. Understanding of VNets, Private Endpoints, Key Vaults, Managed Identities, and Azure Monitor. Exposure to DevOps tools for deployment automation (e.g., Azure DevOps, ARM/Bicep/Terraform).
  • Experience in writing modular, testable Python code used in data transformations, utility functions, and packaging reusable components. Familiarity with Python environments, dependency management (pip/Poetry/Conda), and packaging libraries. Ability to write unit tests using PyTest/ unittest and integrate with CI/CD pipelines.
  • Lead solution design discussions, mentor junior engineers, and ensure adherence to coding guidelines, design patterns, and peer review processes. Able to prepare Design documents for development and guiding the team technically. Experience preparing technical design documents, HLD/LLDs, and architecture diagrams. Familiarity with code quality tools (e.g., SonarQube, pylint), and version control workflows (Git).
  • Demonstrates strong verbal and written communication, proactive stakeholder engagement, and a collaborative attitude in cross-functional teams. Ability to articulate technical concepts clearly to both technical and business audiences. Experience in working with product owners, QA, and business analysts to translate requirements into deliverables.

Communication Skills:

  • Communicate effectively with internal and customer stakeholders
  • Communication approach: verbal, emails and instant messages

Interpersonal Skills:

  • Strong interpersonal skills to build and maintain productive relationships with team members
  • Provide constructive feedback during code reviews and be open to receiving feedback on your own code.

Problem-Solving and Analytical Thinking:

  • Capability to troubleshoot and resolve issues efficiently.
  • Analytical mindset.

Task/ Work Updates

  • Prior experience in working on Agile/Scrum projects with exposure to tools like Jira/Azure DevOps.
  • Provides regular updates, proactive and due diligent to carry out responsibilities.

Required:

  • We are seeking a highly skilled Data Engineering specialist with above mentioned mentioned Primary Skills to join our dynamic team who are at the forefront of enabling enterprises in Healthcare sectors.
  • The ideal candidate should be passionate about working on Data Engineering on Azure cloud with strong focus on DevOps practices in building product for our customers.
  • Effectively Communicate and Collaborate with internal teams and customer to build code leveraging or building low level design documents aligning to standard coding principles and guidelines.
  • Good to have Azure Entra/AD skills and GitHub Actions.
  • Good to have orchestration experience using Airflow, Dagster, LogicApp.
  • Good to have experience working on event-driven architectures using Kafka, Azure Event Hub.
  • Good to have exposure on Google Cloud Pub/Sub.
  • Good to have experience developing and maintaining Change Data Capture (CDC) solutions preferably using Debezium.
  • Good to have hands-on experience on data migration projects specifically involving Azure Synapse and Databricks Lakehouse.
  • Good to have experienced in managing cloud storage solutions on Azure Data Lake Storage . Experience with Google Cloud Storage will be an advantage.
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