Fabric Data Engineer & Agentic AI Lead

Garan, Incorporated; New York (NY); On-site; USD 127,000 - 173,000; Full time

Job summary

Garan Apparel is seeking a Microsoft Fabric Data Engineer to design, build, and maintain scalable data solutions within the Fabric ecosystem. You will develop robust data pipelines, implement Medallion architecture, and ensure analytics-ready datasets for enterprise reporting.

The role emphasizes data modeling for Power BI, governance, security, and collaboration with stakeholders to align data solutions with business goals and AI readiness initiatives.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Data Engineering, Information Systems, or related field.
• 7+ years of experience in data engineering or related roles.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain end-to-end data pipelines using Microsoft Fabric (Data Factory, Pipelines, Notebooks)
• Implement and manage Medallion architecture (Bronze, Silver, Gold layers) to ensure data quality, governance, and usability
• Ingest, transform, and integrate data from multiple structured and unstructured sources
• Optimize data workflows for performance, scalability, and cost efficiency
• Build and maintain Lakehouse and Data Warehouse solutions within Fabric
• Ensure data reliability through monitoring, logging, and error‑handling mechanisms
• Collaborate with stakeholders to translate business requirements into scalable data solutions
• Enforce data governance, security, and compliance best practices
• Document data models, pipelines, and system architecture
• Contribute to roadmap planning and platform evolution
• Design enterprise‑grade data models optimized for Power BI and analytics workloads
• Oversee creation and management of semantic models and datasets within Fabric
• Oversee dataset performance, refresh strategies, and capacity management in Power BI
• Implement data modeling best practices (star schema, normalization where appropriate)
• Support development of dashboards and reports by providing curated, high-quality datasets
• Manage access control, row‑level security (RLS), and data lineage visibility
• Manage Power BI capacity, dataset refresh strategies, and scalability considerations
• Collaborate with BI developers to optimize DAX performance and reporting efficiency
• Monitor usage and adoption metrics to improve data accessibility and usability
• Prepare and structure data to support AI/ML use cases within Microsoft Fabric and Azure ecosystem
• Enable feature engineering by delivering clean, enriched, and well‑governed datasets
• Support integration with AI tools such as Azure Machine Learning, Fabric Data Science, and Copilot experiences
• Implement data pipelines that support real‑time or near real‑time analytics where needed
• Ensure datasets are scalable and aligned with AI model training requirements
• Promote best practices for data versioning, reproducibility, and experimentation

Skills

Microsoft Fabric

Medallion architecture

SQL

Python

Spark

Lakehouse

Data modeling

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Data Engineering, Information Systems, or related field

Tools

Microsoft Fabric (Azure Synapse)

Job description

Garan Apparel is seeking a Microsoft Fabric Data Engineer to design, build, and maintain scalable data solutions within the Fabric ecosystem. You will develop robust data pipelines, implement Medallion architecture, and ensure analytics-ready datasets for enterprise reporting.

The role emphasizes data modeling for Power BI, governance, security, and collaboration with stakeholders to align data solutions with business goals and AI readiness initiatives.