Platform Data Engineer Lead – Microsoft Fabric Expert

TechRuiter

Northern (KY)

Hybrid

USD 120,000 - 180,000

Full time

13 days ago

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Job summary

TechRuiter is seeking a hands-on Technical Lead to guide the development and operation of its Microsoft Fabric-based Platform. The role blends data platform architecture, hands-on engineering, technical leadership, and business partnership.

You will lead the architecture and engineering of the data lake-house, providing mentorship, reviews, and architectural guidance to data/analytics engineers while collaborating with R&D, Commercial, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, and Corporate functions.

Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Data Engineering, Information Systems, or related field.
7–10 years of experience in data engineering, data platforms, or analytics infrastructure.
2+ years of technical leadership experience with data/analytics engineers.
Hands-on experience with Microsoft Fabric; Databricks or Azure Synapse preferred/considered.

Responsibilities

Lead architecture and engineering of the Microsoft Fabric data lake-house, including OneLake and CI/CD.
Provide hands-on technical leadership, code reviews, and architectural guidance.
Design scalable data pipelines integrating 50+ enterprise source systems.
Partner with stakeholders to translate business needs into data solutions.
Manage external implementation partners and ensure engineering quality.
Establish platform support models, SLAs, monitoring, and data quality processes.
Define KPIs: pipeline reliability, data freshness, query performance, onboarding velocity, incident resolution.
Develop semantic layer, including Power BI datasets and gold-layer views.
Implement data governance, security, classification, and audit requirements.
Establish engineering standards for development, testing, branching, and deployment.