Data Engineer with Databricks and Spark

JOB SUMMARY

• This role builds and maintains scalable data pipelines and lakehouse infrastructure on Microsoft Azure to support efficient extraction transformation and loading of data across batch and real-time workloads. It involves implementing and managing the Medallion Architecture (Bronze Silver Gold) using Azure Data Factory Databricks-PySpark and Azure SQL Database and Databricks Unity Catalogue.
• The role requires ensuring SLA-adherent data quality standards. Success is measured by pipeline reliability data freshness SLA compliance and the quality of Gold-layer datasets powering Power BI executive dashboards.
• The work supports organizational decision-making by delivering trusted well-governed data to business executives and analytics consumers.

Required Skills:

• Experience building and optimizing big data pipelines using Azure Data Factory PySpark and SQL across structured and semi-structured data sets
• Hands-on experience implementing Medallion Architecture (Bronze/Silver/Gold)
• Experience with Delta Lake - ACID transactions incremental loading schema evolution partitioning strategies
• Experience performing root cause analysis on pipeline failures and data quality issues to resolve SLA breaches and identify platform improvement opportunities

Azure Foundational Services :

• Working knowledge of: Azure Data Factory (ADF) ADLS Gen2 Azure SQL Database Azure Blob Storage Azure Key Vault Azure Monitor / Log Analytics Azure Event Hubs Microsoft Fabric Lakehouse Azure Active Directory / Entra ID (RBAC Service Principals)

Programming Languages:

• Proficiency in Python and PySpark for data transformation pipeline automation and large-scale distributed processing; strong SQL skills including window functions CTEs and query optimization across relational and lakehouse engines

Data Architecture:

• Solid understanding of Medallion Architecture dimensional modeling (Star Schema SCD Types 1/2/3) and the trade-offs between lakehouse data warehouse and data lake patterns

Pipeline Engineering:

• Ability to build robust ADF pipelines with ForEach Lookup Copy Activity and Data Flows; incremental loading via watermark or CDC; error handling retry logic and dead-letter patterns

Data Quality Experience:

• Experience implementing SLA-based data quality checks (freshness completeness row count) monitoring via Azure Monitor and ADF diagnostic logs and defining data quality agreements with business stakeholders.

DevOps for Data:

• Experience with Git-based workflows ADF Git integration CI/CD pipeline promotion across Dev/Test/Prod using Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions

Reporting Layer Awareness:

• Understanding of how Gold-layer data feeds Power BI - DirectQuery vs. Import mode trade-offs dataset refresh patterns and semantic model collaboration with BI teams
• Ability to manage work across multiple concurrent pipeline projects prioritize by business impact and communicate status clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders

Good to have skills:

• Experience with Microsoft Fabric (Lakehouse Notebooks OneLake Fabric Pipelines) - active migration or greenfield project
• Experience with real-time / streaming workloads using Azure Event Hubs or Structured Streaming in PySpark
• Experience delivering data platforms for executive-level reporting via Power BI semantic models