Key Responsibilities
Experience - 9+yrs
- Data Platforms & Pipeline Engineering
- Lead end-to-end development of scalable data pipelines and orchestration frameworks usingAzure Data Factory (ADF),Azure Synapse Analytics,Azure Databricks, andMicrosoft Fabric.
- Build robustreal-time and batch data pipelines, including integration with streaming sources (e.g., Event Hubs, Kafka) and structured streaming engines.
- Design and implementStructured Streamingapplications in Spark for near-real-time processing of streaming data.
- Develop and maintainETL/ELT pipelinesand transformations leveraging Spark, PySpark, SQL, and fabric orchestration capabilities.
Microsoft Fabric & Azure Ecosystem
- Architect and implement data solutions usingMicrosoft Fabric, including OneLake, Dataflows, warehouses, and Fabric capacity planning to support enterprise analytics.
- Collaborate on data governance, cataloging, and asset organization usingUnity Catalogwithin Databricks and Fabric environments.
- Manage Microsoft Fabric capacity and resource utilization to optimize performance and cost efficiency for analytics workloads.
Databricks Engineering & Dashboards
- Design, deploy, and optimizeDatabricks dashboardsand reporting artifacts for business stakeholders.
- Apply best practices for data modelling, caching, file sizing, andperformance tuning of Spark and Delta Lake jobs(e.g., Z-ORDER, broadcast joins, adaptive query execution).
- Oversee governance, access controls, metadata management, and lineage using Unity Catalog.
Leadership & Collaboration
- Lead and mentor a team of data engineers, fostering best practices in development, operations, documentation, and quality.
- Work with cross-functional teams (architecture, BI, data science, DevOps) to translate business requirements into scalable data solutions.
- Partner with stakeholders to define data strategy, standards, and architectural roadmaps.
Quality, Governance & Compliance
- Establish and enforce standards for data quality, testing, monitoring, operational observability, and governance.
- Implement secure, compliant data access and lineage frameworks across cloud data platforms.
DevOps & CI/CD
- Implement CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code for data platform artifacts, and automated testing frameworks for data jobs and workflows.
Required Skills & Qualifications
- 10+ yearsof hands-on experience in data engineering on Azure with deep expertise in ADF, Synapse, Databricks, and Microsoft Fabric.
- Proven experience withreal-time data processing, streaming architectures, andSpark Structured Streaming.
- Strong proficiency inAzure Data Factory, Spark (PySpark), SQL, Azure Synapse Analytics, Databricks Runtime, and cloud storage.
- Solid knowledge ofUnity Catalogfor data governance, security, and access management.
- Experience designing and managingDatabricks Dashboards, performance optimization, cost controls, and data platform resource tuning.
- Expertise in building scalable, fault-tolerant, and high-throughput batch & streaming data solutions.
- Excellent leadership, cross-team collaboration, and communication skills.
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