Data Engineer, Modern Data Pipelines (Fabric)

United States Digital Space LLC; United States; Remote; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Citrin Cooperman is seeking a Data Engineer to join the Development team within Information Technology. You will design and optimize core data pipelines powering BI and analytics, moving data from on-prem and third-party APIs into clean models.

You will own pipeline health, implement data quality checks, and collaborate on modernization of data workloads in a cloud-first Fabric environment, ensuring reliable data delivery for business users.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, data engineering, mathematics, or equivalent practical experience.
• Microsoft Certified: Fabric Data Engineer Associate (DP-700).
• Microsoft Certified: Fabric Analytics Engineer Associate (DP-600).
• Microsoft Certified: Power BI Data Analyst Associate (PL-300).
• 3–5+ years of professional experience in data engineering, BI development, or data warehousing.
• Strong proficiency in SQL and Python (PySpark).
• Hands-on experience with modern cloud data platforms, preferably Microsoft Fabric, Azure Synapse Analytics, Azure Data Factory, or Databricks.
• Solid understanding of relational database concepts and Kimball data warehousing principles.
• Experience with monitoring, alerting, and incident response for data pipelines.
• Familiar with Git and CI/CD for data deployments.
• Be reliability-focused, detail-oriented, and collaborative.

Responsibilities

• Pipeline Development: design, build, and deploy ETL/ELT pipelines using Fabric Data Factory and Spark to ingest data from diverse sources.
• Data Modeling & Architecture: implement Medallion Architecture and transform data into business-ready models for Power BI and analytics.
• Operational Monitoring & Support: own daily pipeline execution, monitor health, troubleshoot failures, ensure SLAs.
• Data Quality & Governance: develop data quality validations and anomaly detection scripts.
• Collaboration & Refactoring: work with Senior DBA to optimize queries and modernize legacy workloads.
• Version Control & CI/CD: write modular code, participate in code reviews, use Git for deployments.

Skills

SQL

Python

PySpark

Spark

Data Factory

Fabric

Azure Synapse

Databricks

Power BI

Git

CI/CD

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science, data engineering, mathematics, or equivalent practical experience

Tools

Fabric Data Factory

OneLake

Spark

Job description

Citrin Cooperman is seeking a Data Engineer to join the Development team within Information Technology. You will design and optimize core data pipelines powering BI and analytics, moving data from on-prem and third-party APIs into clean models.

You will own pipeline health, implement data quality checks, and collaborate on modernization of data workloads in a cloud-first Fabric environment, ensuring reliable data delivery for business users.