Senior Data Engineer

SO Digital Recruitment Ltd; Wien; On-site; EUR 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

SO Digital Recruitment Ltd. is helping a specialist Microsoft Partner find a Senior (Fabric) Data Engineer in Austria to lead design and delivery of modern lakehouse platforms for enterprise clients.

This hands-on engineering and architecture role shapes data governance and accessibility across complex organisations. You will design Azure lakehouse architectures, implement governance and DataOps practices, mentor juniors, and advise stakeholders on platform strategy and business impact of

Qualifications

• 5+ years designing and operating Azure data platforms at scale.
• Strong knowledge of Fabric and lakehouse architectures.
• Experience building best-in-class data platforms.
• Foundations in data architecture, distributed systems, and performance optimization.
• Hands-on IaC, CI/CD and DevOps practices in data engineering.

Responsibilities

• Designing and implementing modern lakehouse architectures on Azure, including data integration, storage and compute layer decisions.
• Establishing centralised governance, access control and compliance across the data platform.
• Building DataOps practices - automated monitoring, cost management and pipeline reliability at scale.
• Advising stakeholders on platform strategy and business impact of technical decisions.
• Mentoring junior engineers and contributing to architecture direction and code quality.

Skills

Azure data platforms

Fabric knowledge

Data architecture

Distributed systems

DataOps practices

Tools

Terraform

CI/CD tooling

DevOps

Job description

Building the data foundations that make Agentic AI projects possible.

A specialist Microsoft Partner is looking for a Senior (Fabric) Data Engineer to lead the design and delivery of modern lakehouse platforms for enterprise clients. This is a hands‑on engineering and architecture role with real influence, you will shape how data is structured, governed, and made accessible across complex organisations.

What you'll be doing

• Designing and implementing modern lakehouse architectures on Azure, including data integration, storage, and compute layer decisions


• Establishing centralised governance, access control, and compliance frameworks across the data platform


• Building DataOps practices - automated monitoring, cost management, and pipeline reliability at scale


• Advising internal and client stakeholders on platform strategy and the business impact of technical decisions


• Mentoring junior engineers and contributing to architecture direction and code quality

What you bring

• 5+ years of experience designing and operating Azure data platforms at scale


• Strong knowledge of Fabric


• Designed and built best‑in‑class data platforms


• Strong foundations in data architecture, distributed systems, data modelling, and performance optimisation


• Hands‑on experience with infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD, and DevOps practices in a data engineering context

Placed exclusively by SO Digital Recruitment - specialist search for Senior Microsoft Data & AI talent across DACH.

Our client is an equal opportunities employer and actively promotes diversity and inclusion across their teams. Applications are welcome from all qualified candidates.