Senior Data Engineer Azure

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Heres what the opportunity supported through our TGS Talent Acquisition Team requires:

We are seeking a highly skilled Sr. Data Engineer with strong expertise in Microsoft Fabric, Azure analytics ecosystem, and Snowflake data platform to design and deliver modern, scalable data solutions.

The ideal candidate should be a good team player with 6+ years of experience in data engineering in Microsoft technologies, deep hands-on expertise in Microsoft Azure Fabric platform (OneLake, Lakehouse, Data Factory pipelines, Synapse Data Engineering, Purview, Power BI). Experience with Azure AI/ML services is a definite plus. In addition, the candidate should have at least two end to end project experience developing Snowflake native data engineering solutions involving Snowpipe / Copy Command / Dynamic Table / Streams & Tasks

This role requires expertise in designing, developing, and deploying secure, scalable, and high-performance cloud-native engineering and analytics solutions, close team collaboration with team lead/ architects, AI Engineers, Data Scientists, and Business Stakeholders to deliver impactful, data-driven solutions.

Essential Functions

• Actively involves in requirement gathering workshops from customers, translating the functional requirements into technical solutions, and translating complex technical concepts into actionable insights for stakeholders under the guidance from an Architect or Lead Engineer
• Actively participates in architectural discussions under guidance / supervision from Practice Architect / Team Lead to design and develop effective, efficient, reliable, secure, scalable, and cost-optimized data engineering solutions as per the overall data management strategy
• Design and implement modern data platform architectures using Microsoft Fabric and/or Snowflake, including:
• OneLake-based data Lakehouse architectures
• Data Factory pipelines within Fabric
• Synapse Data Engineering and Data Warehousing experiences
• Snowflake Data Ingestion (different data formats)
• Develop scalable data ingestion, transformation, and orchestration pipelines using Fabric-native tools, and Azure services
• Design high-performance Lakehouse and Warehouse models following best practices (medallion architecture, dimensional modeling)
• Integrate Azure services such as Azure Data Factory, ADLS Gen2, Azure SQL, Databricks (optional)
• Design, implement, and optimize Snowflake-based cloud data platforms leveraging features such as Snowpipe, Streams, Tasks, Dynamic Tables, and Virtual Warehouses to deliver scalable, secure, and high-performance analytical solutions.
• Develop enterprise-grade ELT frameworks and data integration solutions on Snowflake, ensuring adherence to data governance, performance optimization, cost management, and operational best practices
• Build interactive and scalable Power BI semantic models and reports
• Implement CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps/GitHub) for data and analytics workloads
• Ensure adherence to data governance, security, and compliance standards
• Occasionally mentor or oversee junior engineers and drive best practices
• Contribute to developing accelerator solutions or reusable frameworks

Mandatory Skills/Competencies

• Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
• 6+ years of hands-on Data Engineering experience delivering enterprise-scale data platforms and analytics solutions in Microsoft tech stack.
• At least two end-to-end implementation projects on Azure Fabric involving design, development, testing, and production deployment
• At least two end-to-end implementation projects on Snowflake involving data ingestion, transformation, modeling, and optimization
• Strong expertise in SQL, Python, a…