Senior Azure Data Engineer - Remote Data Lake & Pipelines

Eliassen Group; Richmond (VA); Remote; USD 103,000 - 117,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401k with company matching

Life insurance

Job summary

Eliassen Group is seeking a Senior Azure Data Engineer to modernize an enterprise data platform by migrating data and workloads from on-premises Oracle and IBM DataStage to a cloud-based Azure data lake architecture. You will design and build scalable data pipelines using Azure Databricks and Data Factory, guiding data architecture decisions and engineering best practices.

This remote role supports healthcare or finance data contexts.

Qualifications

• Extensive hands-on data engineering experience in enterprise environments.
• Proficiency with Azure Databricks and Azure Data Factory.
• Strong SQL and Python or PySpark development skills.

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 to 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 into data pipelines and workflows.
• Automate validation and testing to improve reliability of data products.
• Guide technical discussions 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.

Skills

SQL

Python

PySpark

Tools

Azure Databricks

Azure Data Factory

Git

Job description

Eliassen Group is seeking a Senior Azure Data Engineer to modernize an enterprise data platform by migrating data and workloads from on-premises Oracle and IBM DataStage to a cloud-based Azure data lake architecture. You will design and build scalable data pipelines using Azure Databricks and Data Factory, guiding data architecture decisions and engineering best practices.

This remote role supports healthcare or finance data contexts.