Data Service Engineer (Azure Data)
Sonata Software North America Inc.
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Job summary
Sonata Software North America Inc. is seeking a Data Service Engineer (Azure Data) to collaborate with enterprise customers in designing, deploying, optimizing, modernizing, and supporting data platforms on Microsoft Azure.
You will guide customers through analytics modernization, data engineering, governance, and real-time analytics initiatives. The role requires deep Azure Data expertise, including Data Lake Storage Gen2, Synapse, Fabric, and ADF, with strong scripting in Python/PowerShell.
Qualifications
- Strong expertise (300–400 level) in Azure Data Platform and related services.
- Experience designing, deploying, and supporting enterprise data platforms on Azure.
- Ability to implement data governance, security, and cost-optimized solutions.
Responsibilities
- Serve as trusted advisor for Azure Data Platform solutions and lead workshops/architectural reviews.
- Design and implement enterprise-scale data architectures and ingestion pipelines.
- Migrate on-premises workloads to Azure and enable AI-ready data foundations.
- Apply governance, security, RBAC and data protection measures across platforms.
- Deliver architecture runbooks and mentor customer teams on Azure Data services.
Skills
Tools
Job description
Sonata Software, with over $1.2 Billion Revenue, is a leading AI-first Modernization Engineering company, powered by our unique PlatformationTM framework. Our 00+ AI Engineers are helping enterprises transform from systems to intelligent business platforms leveraging partner ecosystem to drive speed, efficiency and growth. Our bouquet of Modernization Engineering Services with AI -first approach cuts across Cloud, Data, AI, Dynamics, Test Automation, and Managed Services.
Sonata Software, with over $1.2 Billion Revenue, is a leading AI-first Modernization Engineering company, powered by our unique PlatformationTM framework. Our 00+ AI Engineers are helping enterprises transform from systems to intelligent business platforms leveraging partner ecosystem to drive speed, efficiency and growth. Our bouquet of Modernization Engineering Services with AI -first approach cuts across Cloud, Data, AI, Dynamics, Test Automation, and Managed Services.
Sonata’s AI-led modernization is enabled by a powerful suite of proprietary tools and assets. At the core is the Harmoni.AI Enterprise Platform, which includes AgentBridge-a governance and observability framework; Agent Builder-a development toolkit for fungible agents integrated into enterprise systems; and the Agent Marketplace-an internal ecosystem for modular, reusable agents.
Headquartered in Bengaluru, India, Sonata Software has a strong global presence, including key regions US, UK, India, Malaysia, Meico, Australia, DACH Germany/Switzerland) & Nordics Finland). We are a trusted partner of Fortune 500 companies in Banking, Financial Services and Insurance; Healthcare and Lifesciences; Telecom, Media, and Technology; and Retail, Manufacturing and Distribution space.
Deep collaborations with partners like Microsoft, AWS, Salesforce, and Snowflake strengthen our ability to deliver cutting-edge AI solutions. Our 30+years of partnership with Microsoft, and being part of the elite Microsoft Inner Circle, places us among the top 1% of global Microsoft partners. Sonata is now among the first companies to earn the Microsoft Frontier Partner Badge Also; Sonata Software is proud to achieve AWS Premier Tier Status in the AWS Partner Network.
Job Title: Data Service Engineer (Azure Data)
Location: Remote (within Ireland)
Duration: FTE
Experience Level: 10+ years
As a Data Service Engineer (Azure Data), you will work directly with enterprise customers to design, deploy, optimize, modernize, and support data platforms built on Microsoft Azure. You will act as a trusted technical advisor, helping customers leverage Azure data services to achieve scalable, secure, governed, and AI-ready data solutions.
By utilizing Microsoft intellectual property, best practices, and cloud adoption methodologies, you will guide customers through data platform transformation initiatives including analytics modernization, data engineering, governance, real-time analytics, and database migration.
You will collaborate closely with customer architects, data engineers, analysts, developers, and business stakeholders to accelerate adoption of Microsoft Azure Data and AI technologies.
- Serve as a trusted advisor for Azure Data Platform solutions.
- Lead technical workshops, architectural discussions, and design reviews.
- Assist customers in defining modernization and migration strategies.
- Deliver technical guidance aligned with Microsoft best practices.
- Support proof-of-concepts, pilots, and production deployments.
- Design and implement enterprise-scale data architectures.
- Buld and optimize data ingestion, transformation, and orchestration pipelines.
- Develop scalable data lake, lakehouse, warehouse, and analytics solutions.
- Implement CI/CD, DevOps, and automation practices for data workloads.
- Monitor platform performance, reliability, and cost optimization.
- Migrate on-premises databases and analytics workloads to Azure.
- Design hybrid and cloud-native data architectures.
- Support modernization of legacy ETL and reporting platforms.
- Enable AI-ready data foundations using Microsoft Fabric and Azure Data services.
- Implement data governance frameworks.
- Apply data security, privacy, compliance, and retention policies.
- Enable metadata management and lineage tracking.
- Design secure access controls using RBAC and data protection mechanisms.
- Deliver technical workshops and customer enablement sessions.
- Produce architecture documentation and operational runbooks.
- Mentor customer teams on Azure Data services and best practices.
The candidate should possess strong expertise (300–400 level) in the following areas:
- Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2
- Microsoft Fabric OneLake
- Azure Blob Storage
- Azure SQL Database
- Azure SQL Managed Instance
- Azure Cosmos DB
- Azure Data Factory (ADF)
- Microsoft Fabric Data Pipelines
- Azure Logic Apps
- Event-driven architectures
- Azure Synapse Analytics
- Microsoft Fabric Data Engineering
- Microsoft Fabric Data Warehouse
- Azure Databricks
- Apache Spark
- Delta Lake
- Dimensional Modeling
- Data Mart Design
- Data Warehouse Architecture
- Star and Snowflake Schema Design
- Azure Event Hub
- Stream Processing
- Structured Streaming
- Real-Time Intelligence using Fabric
- SQL Server
- T-SQL
- Query Optimization
- Performance Tuning
- High Availability & Disaster Recovery
- SQL
- Python
- PySpark
- Scala (preferred)
- PowerShell (preferred)
- Microsoft Purview
- Data Lineage
- Data Catalog
- Data Classification
- RBAC
- Data Encryption
- Compliance & Regulatory Controls
- Power BI
- Fabric Semantic Models
- Report Development
- Dashboard Design
- Data Lakehouse Architecture
- Data Mesh Concepts
- AI and Machine Learning Data Preparation
- Azure DevOps
- GitHub Actions
At Sonata, you´ll have an outstanding opportunity. The chance to use your skills and imagination to push the boundaries of what´s possible. To build never seen before solutions to some of the world’s toughest problems. You´ll be challenged, but you will not be alone. You´ll be joining a team of diverse innovators, all driven to go beyond the status quo to craft what comes net.
Sonata Software is an Equal Opportunity Employer encouraging diversity in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, national origin, gender identity, age, religion, disability, sexual orientation, veteran status, marital status, or any other characteristics protected by law.
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