Azure Data Engineer

Job Title: Azure Data Engineer

Location: Bellevue, WA

Duration: / Term: C2C

Experience Desired: 8+ Years
 

Job Description:

• This role  builds, and maintains scalable data pipelines and lakehouse infrastructure on Microsoft Azure to support efficient extraction, transformation, and loading of data across batch and real-time workloads. It involves implementing and managing the Medallion Architecture (Bronze → Silver → Gold) using Azure Data Factory, Databricks-PySpark, and Azure SQL Database and Databricks unity catalogue.
• The role requires ensuring SLA-adherent data quality standards. Success is measured by pipeline reliability, data freshness SLA compliance, and the quality of Gold-layer datasets powering Power BI executive dashboards.
• The work supports organizational decision-making by delivering trusted, well-governed data to business executives and analytics consumers.

Required Skills:

• Experience building and optimizing big data pipelines using Azure Data Factory, PySpark, and SQL across structured and semi-structured data sets
• Hands-on experience implementing Medallion Architecture (Bronze/Silver/Gold)
• Experience with Delta Lake — ACID transactions, incremental loading, schema evolution, partitioning strategies
• Experience performing root cause analysis on pipeline failures and data quality issues to resolve SLA breaches and identify platform improvement opportunities

Azure Foundational Services :

• Working knowledge of: Azure Data Factory (ADF), ADLS Gen2, Azure SQL Database, Azure Blob Storage, Azure Key Vault, Azure Monitor / Log Analytics, Azure Event Hubs, Microsoft Fabric Lakehouse, Azure Active Directory / Entra ID (RBAC, Service Principals)

Programming Languages:

• Proficiency in Python and PySpark for data transformation, pipeline automation, and large-scale distributed processing; strong SQL skills including window functions, CTEs, and query optimization across relational and lakehouse engines

Data Architecture:

• Solid understanding of Medallion Architecture, dimensional modeling (Star Schema, SCD Types 1/2/3), and the trade-offs between lakehouse, data warehouse, and data lake patterns

Pipeline Engineering:

• Ability to build robust ADF pipelines with ForEach, Lookup, Copy Activity, and Data Flows; incremental loading via watermark or CDC; error handling, retry logic, and dead-letter patterns

Data Quality Experience:

• Experience implementing SLA-based data quality checks (freshness, completeness, row count), monitoring via Azure Monitor and ADF diagnostic logs, and defining data quality agreements with business stakeholders.

DevOps for Data:

• Experience with Git-based workflows, ADF Git integration, CI/CD pipeline promotion across Dev/Test/Prod using Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions

Reporting Layer Awareness:

• Understanding of how Gold-layer data feeds Power BI — DirectQuery vs. Import mode trade-offs, dataset refresh patterns, and semantic model collaboration with BI teams
• Ability to manage work across multiple concurrent pipeline projects, prioritize by business impact, and communicate status clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders

Good to have skills:

• Experience with Microsoft Fabric (Lakehouse, Notebooks, OneLake, Fabric Pipelines) — active migration or greenfield project
• Experience with real-time / streaming workloads using Azure Event Hubs or Structured Streaming in PySpark
• Experience delivering data platforms for executive-level reporting via Power BI semantic models

Key Skills:

Azure, Databricks, Data Factory, Power BI, Delta lake.