Senior Data Platform Engineer - Microsoft Fabric Lead

CRDF Global; Warszawa; On-site; PLN 220,000 - 320,000; Full time

Job summary

CRDF Global is hiring a Senior Data Platform Engineer to own our enterprise data platform in Microsoft Fabric, overseeing architecture, standards, and pipelines from inception to support. This is a long-term ownership role with expanding scope as new systems are onboarded.

The role includes defining platform security, managing capacity and cost, and ensuring data quality and governance across lakehouse layers. Collaboration with Finance, Programs, and Operations is essential.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional experience in data engineering, data platform engineering, or enterprise data integration.
• Hands-on experience building and operating a cloud data platform such as Microsoft Fabric, Azure Synapse, Databricks, or Snowflake.
• Strong SQL and Python or PySpark for data transformation.
• Experience designing lakehouse or dimensional data models, including medallion architecture, star schemas, and slowly changing dimensions.
• Experience integrating ERP, CRM, or financial systems through APIs, REST and JSON, and incremental extract patterns.
• Experience with orchestration, source control, and CI/CD for data pipelines using Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions.
• Experience setting technical standards and reviewing the work of engineers or analysts who do not report to you.
• Experience working directly with finance or program staff to turn business questions into data models.

Responsibilities

• Own the architecture of CRDF Global’s data platform, including lakehouse structure and bronze/silver/gold layers.
• Set technical standards for the platform and review designs before implementation.
• Provide technical direction to team members and ensure alignment with standards.
• Establish source control, environment strategy, and deployment pipelines for Fabric artifacts.
• Manage capacity, performance, and cost; monitor pipeline reliability and data freshness.
• Define platform security, including workspace roles, row-level security, and sensitivity labeling.
• Operate and support the platform, including issue triage, root-cause analysis, and escalation.
• Maintain platform documentation, runbooks, and architecture decisions.
• Build, operate, and extend ingestion pipelines from Deltek Costpoint, Salesforce, Microsoft 365, SharePoint, Smartsheet, Fluxx, Concur, Formstack.
• Implement incremental loads and change tracking, reconcile loaded data against sources.
• Handle API authentication, rate limits, schema drift, and failure recovery.

Skills

SQL

Python/PySpark

Data Modeling

Cloud Data Platform

ETL pipelines

CI/CD for data pipelines

Tools

Microsoft Fabric

Azure Synapse

Databricks

Snowflake

Job description

CRDF Global is hiring a Senior Data Platform Engineer to own our enterprise data platform in Microsoft Fabric, overseeing architecture, standards, and pipelines from inception to support. This is a long-term ownership role with expanding scope as new systems are onboarded.

The role includes defining platform security, managing capacity and cost, and ensuring data quality and governance across lakehouse layers. Collaboration with Finance, Programs, and Operations is essential.