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# Data Engineer Lead - Microsoft Fabric

- **Company:** Mastech Digital, Inc.
- **Location:** United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Information Engineering, Data Governance, Data Integration, Data Warehousing, SQL Databases, Data Storage Technologies, Apache Spark, Microsoft Fabric, Data Lakes, Pyspark, Azure Synapse Analytics, Stream Analytics, Data Pipelines
- **Published:** September 4, 2026
- **Apply:** http://datafrenzy.com/Job/Display?jobNum=24084616

## About the Role

Role Description: The Data Engineer Lead must have 3+ years of experience. We are looking for a Data Engineer Lead with strong Microsoft Fabric and Purview expertise.

You will build scalable data pipelines, implement Lakehouse architectures on OneLake, and establish data governance for enterprise clients.

Technical Skills Required (6-8 of the following):

 - Fabric Lakehouse and OneLake for unified data storage

 - Data Factory pipelines and Dataflows Gen2 for ingestion

 - Fabric Data Warehouse and SQL analytics endpoints

 - Microsoft Purview: data catalog, lineage, and classifications

 - Eventstream and Real-Time Analytics for streaming workloads

 - Delta Lake tables and V-Order optimization in Fabric

 - Spark Notebooks with PySpark for transformations

 - Shortcuts and mirroring for external data integration

Experience:

 - 3+ years in data engineering with at least 1 year on Fabric or Azure Synapse

 - Delivered 2+ Lakehouse implementations or large-scale pipeline projects

 - Clear communication skills for client interactions and technical documentation



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