Remote Azure Data Engineer: Cloud Data Lake & Pipelines Lead

Eliassen Group; Carson City (NV); Remote; USD 103,000 - 117,000; Part time

Job summary

Eliassen Group is seeking a Senior Azure Data Engineer to help modernize an enterprise data platform by migrating workloads to an Azure data lake. You will design, build, and optimize pipelines with Azure Databricks and Data Factory, contributing to data architecture decisions and engineering best practices.

The role emphasizes hands-on development with Azure services, SQL, and PySpark, while guiding team members and collaborating with stakeholders across healthcare or finance-related data

Qualifications

• Strong hands-on data engineering experience in enterprise environments.
• Demonstrated experience with Azure Databricks and Azure Data Factory.
• Strong SQL and Python or PySpark development skills.
• Experience designing and developing batch data pipelines and ETL/ELT workflows.
• Knowledge of medallion or lakehouse architecture including Bronze, Silver, Gold data layers.
• Experience with relational databases and large, complex datasets.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, and maintain data pipelines using Azure Databricks and Azure Data Factory.
• Support migration of data and ETL workloads to an Azure cloud data lake.
• Develop scalable ingestion, transformation, and data-processing solutions.
• Design and implement medallion architecture across data layers.
• Build data-quality, reconciliation, and validation checks into pipelines.
• Automate validation and testing to improve data product reliability.
• Guide data architecture discussions and engineering standards.
• Troubleshoot pipeline failures and performance issues.
• Collaborate with engineers, analysts, and business stakeholders to translate requirements.
• Participate in code reviews, testing, deployment, and continuous-improvement.
• Promote reusable development patterns and sound engineering practices.

Skills

Azure Databricks

Azure Data Factory

SQL

Python/PySpark

Data engineering

Git

CI/CD

Azure DevOps

Tools

Git

Azure DevOps

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Eliassen Group is seeking a Senior Azure Data Engineer to help modernize an enterprise data platform by migrating workloads to an Azure data lake. You will design, build, and optimize pipelines with Azure Databricks and Data Factory, contributing to data architecture decisions and engineering best practices.

The role emphasizes hands-on development with Azure services, SQL, and PySpark, while guiding team members and collaborating with stakeholders across healthcare or finance-related data