Remote Senior Azure Data Engineer - Data Lake & Databricks

African American Talent; Madison (WI); Remote; USD 103,000 - 117,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, Vision benefits

401k with company matching

Life insurance

Job summary

Eliassen Group is seeking a Senior Azure Data Engineer for a remote contract-to-hire engagement. You will design and build scalable data pipelines using Azure Databricks and Azure Data Factory, migrating workloads from on‑prem Oracle/DataStage to a cloud data lake, and guiding data architecture decisions.

The role emphasizes hands-on development, data quality, medallion architecture, and collaboration with engineers, analysts, and business stakeholders. W2 benefits included; rate $75–$85/hr.

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 or ELT workflows.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, and maintain data pipelines using Azure Databricks and Azure Data Factory.
• Support the migration of data and ETL workloads from on-premises Oracle and DataStage environment to an Azure cloud data lake.
• Develop scalable ingestion, transformation, and data-processing solutions.
• Design and implement medallion architecture patterns across Bronze, Silver, and Gold data layers.
• Build data-quality, reconciliation, and validation checks directly into data pipelines and engineering workflows.
• Automate validation and testing to improve the reliability of data products.
• Help guide technical discussions and decisions related to data architecture, solution design, and engineering standards.
• Troubleshoot pipeline failures, data-quality issues, and performance problems.
• Collaborate with engineers, analysts, architects, and business stakeholders to translate requirements into practical data solutions.
• Participate in code reviews, documentation, testing, deployment, and continuous-improvement activities.
• Promote reusable development patterns and sound engineering practices across the team.

Skills

Azure Databricks

Azure Data Factory

SQL

Python/PySpark

ETL/ELT

Data Lakehouse

CI/CD

Git

Tools

Git

CI/CD

Job description

Eliassen Group is seeking a Senior Azure Data Engineer for a remote contract-to-hire engagement. You will design and build scalable data pipelines using Azure Databricks and Azure Data Factory, migrating workloads from on‑prem Oracle/DataStage to a cloud data lake, and guiding data architecture decisions.

The role emphasizes hands-on development, data quality, medallion architecture, and collaboration with engineers, analysts, and business stakeholders. W2 benefits included; rate $75–$85/hr.