Senior Azure Data Lake Architect & Mentor

Careington International; Frisco (TX); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Careington International, Frisco, TX, seeks a Principal Data Engineer to design, build, and optimize scalable data pipelines and platforms supporting analytics, data science, and AI initiatives. You will create an Azure-based data platform with Bronze, Silver, Gold medallion layers, enabling reliable data delivery from client eligibility, claims, and provider network datasets.

You will collaborate across analytics, reporting, and development teams to ensure data quality, governance, and scalable

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Data Engineering, or a related field.
• 10+ years of experience in data engineering, data integration, or related roles.
• Strong experience building ETL/ELT pipelines using SSIS, Azure Data Factory, or similar integration platforms.
• Experience with Python for data processing, automation, or pipeline orchestration.
• Strong experience working with SQL Server and relational databases.
• Experience designing scalable data ingestion and transformation processes for large datasets.
• Experience building or supporting cloud-based data platforms within Microsoft Azure.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable data pipelines using SSIS, Azure Data Factory, and Python.
• Optimize inbound data ingestion frameworks from client eligibility files, claims data, and provider network data from external partners.
• Develop reusable patterns for secure ingestion of structured and semi-structured data from file transfers, APIs, etc.
• Design and implement data validation, monitoring, and logging frameworks for data integrity and visibility.
• Build and maintain data lake architecture in Azure following Bronze, Silver, Gold medallion layers.
• Develop transformations to standardize and prepare enterprise datasets for reporting, analytics, and downstream apps.
• Collaborate with analytics and reporting to deliver curated datasets supporting dashboards, AI, and ML models.
• Design scalable inbound/outbound data integration frameworks for client onboarding and enterprise data exchange.
• Monitor and tune data pipeline performance for latency and reliability.
• Implement data governance, metadata management, and data lineage for transparency.
• Participate in architectural discussions to improve data infrastructure and tooling.
• Provide mentorship and technical guidance to junior data engineers and developers.
• Collaborate with DBAs, app devs, infra teams, and business stakeholders on data initiatives.

Skills

Problem-solving

Communication

Mentoring

Stakeholder collaboration

Data governance

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Data Engineering, or related field

Tools

SSIS

Azure Data Factory

Python

SQL Server

Power BI

Job description

Careington International, Frisco, TX, seeks a Principal Data Engineer to design, build, and optimize scalable data pipelines and platforms supporting analytics, data science, and AI initiatives. You will create an Azure-based data platform with Bronze, Silver, Gold medallion layers, enabling reliable data delivery from client eligibility, claims, and provider network datasets.

You will collaborate across analytics, reporting, and development teams to ensure data quality, governance, and scalable