Senior Cloud Data Engineer

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior Data Engineer to join our dynamic team. In this role, you will be instrumental in designing, building, and maintaining robust and scalable data pipelines and solutions within the Microsoft Azure ecosystem. You will be responsible for developing and optimizing ETL/ELT processes, ensuring data quality, and enabling efficient data access for analytics and business intelligence. We are looking for a hands-on engineer who thrives in a fast-paced environment and is passionate about leveraging cutting-edge technologies, Design, develop, and maintain cloud-based data pipelines and ETL/ELT workflows.

Build and optimize data architectures to support structured and unstructured data processing.

Collaborate with data analysts, data scientists, and business stakeholders to understand data needs.

Implement data quality, security, and governance best practices.

Monitor and troubleshoot data workflows to ensure high availability and performance.

Optimize database and data storage solutions for performance and cost efficiency.

Contribute to cloud adoption, migration, and modernization initiatives.

Strong expertise with Azure cloud platform.

Strong experience in Databricks

Azure Data Factory proficiency required; building datasets, data flows, and pipelines in ADF (not just maintaining something already built)

Hands-on experience with ETL/ELT tools and frameworks.

Proficiency in SQL, Python, and data modeling.

Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code tools.

Understanding of data governance, security, and compliance.

Preferred Skills:

Exposure to API integration and microservices architecture.

Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

Azure cloud certifications and/or past experience

AKS (Azure Kubernetes Service) experience, and ETL related to applications containerized & deployed on AKS (or EKS)