Azure Data Engineer — Microsoft Fabric Expert (Hybrid Columbus)

Vaco Recruiter Services; Dublin (OH); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Vaco Recruiter Services is seeking an Azure Data Engineer (Microsoft Fabric) for a direct-hire, hybrid role in Columbus, Ohio. You will design, build, and operate enterprise data pipelines on the Fabric platform.

Collaborate with application, BI, and business-stakeholders to ensure data quality, scalability, and timely analytics readiness. Travel up to 5% may be required.

Hybrid schedule requires 3 days/week in Columbus office; not eligible for C2C or visa sponsorship.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years of hands-on data engineering experience building enterprise-scale data pipelines.
• Experience with Microsoft Fabric and Microsoft Purview.
• Experience with layered data architectures (raw/staging/curated) in cloud data platforms.
• Proficient in Python (PySpark) and SQL.
• Experience contributing to data architecture standards with cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain scalable data ingestion and transformation pipelines using Microsoft Fabric and Azure-native tooling (Data Factory in Fabric, Dataflows Gen2, Notebooks, Spark jobs).
• Lead technical execution of legacy data migrations into the enterprise Fabric environment.
• Implement data quality controls, validation routines, and monitoring to ensure trusted enterprise data.
• Optimize data pipelines and platform performance for reliability, scalability, and cost efficiency.
• Integrate and onboard new data domains in partnership with application and business teams.
• Support analytics and reporting use cases by preparing high-quality data assets for Power BI and downstream consumption.
• Collaborate with Application Services, Infrastructure, Security, and external partners on data initiatives.
• Document data pipelines, standards, and operational practices to support sustainability and operational readiness.

Skills

Data engineering

Communication

English proficiency

Education

Bachelor’s degree in IT/CS or equivalent

Tools

Azure Data Factory

Azure Synapse

Databricks

Power BI

SQL

PySpark

Job description

Vaco Recruiter Services is seeking an Azure Data Engineer (Microsoft Fabric) for a direct-hire, hybrid role in Columbus, Ohio. You will design, build, and operate enterprise data pipelines on the Fabric platform.

Collaborate with application, BI, and business-stakeholders to ensure data quality, scalability, and timely analytics readiness. Travel up to 5% may be required.

Hybrid schedule requires 3 days/week in Columbus office; not eligible for C2C or visa sponsorship.