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Senior Azure Data Engineer
Location
United States
Posted
45 days ago
Salary
Not specified
8 yrs expEnglishAzureETLPy SparkPythonSQLVault
Job Description
• Define the target-state Azure data architecture (ingestion, orchestration, storage zones, serving patterns), security/networking boundaries, cost/perf tradeoffs, and promotion strategy (Dev→Test→Prod).
• Implement robust ELT/ETL with ADF/Synapse Pipelines (parameters, reusable templates, CI/CD).
• Hands-on in T-SQL and Python/PySpark for transformations, utilities, and tests.
• Physical/semantic modeling, partitioning, columnstore strategies, statistics management, query plan analysis, index design, concurrency & transaction isolation, workload management.
• SLA/SLO definitions, Azure Monitor / Log Analytics / App Insights dashboards and alerts; error handling, retries/backoff, idempotency, CDC and schema drift strategies.
• RBAC, Key Vault, managed identities, private endpoints/VNet, data masking patterns; document data contracts and access patterns.
• Code reviews, PR discipline, mentoring, and crisp documentation/runbooks for client handoff.
Job Requirements
- 8–12+ years in data engineering (recent Azure focus).
- Expert with ADF (linked services, datasets, IRs—including self-hosted), Synapse (SQL pools/serverless, pipelines), and ADLS/Blob.
- T-SQL: advanced query tuning, execution plan analysis, windowing, TVFs/stored procs, temp tables vs CTE tradeoffs, cardinality estimator know-how.
- Python/PySpark: production data transforms, packaging, and testing.
- CI/CD: Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions (multi-stage releases, approvals, infra + data deployments).
- Proven delivery of production-grade platforms at scale (TB-level data, strict SLAs).
Benefits
- Contract only (C2C) — no C2H for this role
- Competitive hourly rate (DOE)
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