Azure Database Engineer

ZealHire Inc.; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

ZealHire Inc. seeks an experienced Azure data platform engineer to design, develop, and implement data lakes and Azure databases for a critical project in the United States.

The contract runs Sept 21, 2026, through June 21, 2027, with possible extensions; interview mode is Microsoft Teams; candidates must have 12+ years of solid data experience.

Candidates should master Databricks, Oracle databases, data transformation, cloud integration, CI/CD, RBAC, encryption, and Azure monitoring tools.

Qualifications

• 7 years' experience designing, developing, and implementing data lakes and databases in Azure.
• Experience with Databricks.
• Experience with Oracle databases.
• Strong experience developing data transformation solutions and cloud integration.
• Mentoring others in the needed technologies.
• Experience with RBAC, encryption, and network security.
• Knowledge of Azure SQL instances, managed instances, and elastic pools.
• Knowledge of Data Warehouse Administration and Teradata Data Warehouse.

Skills

Azure Data Lake

Databricks

Azure SQL

Oracle databases

CI/CD pipelines

Azure Data Factory

Azure Monitor

Azure CLI/PowerShell

Data modeling

Data integration

Mentoring

Backup and recovery

RBAC & security

Data concepts

Elastic pools

Tools

Azure Monitor

Azure Data Factory

SQL Analytics

Query Performance Insight

Teradata

Job description

• Project Duration: September 21, 2026, through June 21, 2027, with possible extensions

USC/GCNeed LinkedIn, VISA DL

• Interview Mode: Microsoft Teams


• Project Duration: September 21, 2026, through June 21, 2027, with possible extensions

12+ Years of solid experience

Candidate Requirements

• Experience with designing, developing, and implementing data lakes and relational and non-relational databases in Azure.


• Experience with Databricks.


• Experience with Oracle databases.


• Strong experience developing and implementing data transformation solutions and cloud infrastructure integration.


• Strong experience coding and testing programs and scripts to load data using Azure data load utilities.


• Strong experience with CI/CD pipelines.


• Experience with cloud computing concepts.


• Experience with tools such as Azure Monitor, Azure Data Factory, SQL Analytics, Query Performance Insight, Azure Resource Manager, and Azure CLI/PowerShell for infrastructure management.


• Experience in mentoring others in the needed technologies.


• Experience developing and implementing backup and recovery strategies using tools such as Azure Backup or Geo-replication.


• Experience with role-based access control, encryption, and network security.


• Strong organizational and time management skills.


• 7 years' experience designing, developing, and implementing data lakes and relational and non-relational databases in Azure.


• Knowledge of data concepts, data modeling, schema design, and indexing strategies.


• Knowledge of Azure SQL instances, managed instances, and elastic pools.


• Knowledge of Data Warehouse Administration and Teradata Data Warehouse.

$000,000 - $000,000 Salary range is not shown on the candidate portal