Senior Data Engineer - Azure Lakehouse & AI Data Pipelines

Vantage Data Centers Management Company LLC; Denver (CO); On-site; USD 130,000 - 155,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision coverage

Life and AD&D

401k with company match

Paid time off

Employee assistance

Job summary

Vantage Data Centers Management Company LLC in Denver, CO is seeking a data engineer to build and scale governed Azure data foundations for enterprise reporting, operational intelligence, and AI-enabled consumption across North America. You will design, implement, and operate data pipelines on Azure, focusing on reliability and scalability.

You will work with PySpark, Python, SQL, and Azure Data Factory, maintain lakehouse structures, data dictionaries, lineage, and governance, collaborating

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent experience.
• 5–8 years of data engineering / analytics engineering experience.
• Proficiency in Python for data pipelines and PySpark-based transformations.
• Proficiency in SQL for querying and data quality checks.
• Experience with Azure data services including Data Factory, Synapse, and Data Lake Storage Gen2.
• Experience with CI/CD using GitHub or Azure DevOps.

Responsibilities

• Build, maintain, and optimize data pipelines on Azure for enterprise reporting and AI-enabled consumption.
• Develop batch and incremental pipelines with Azure Data Factory; manage lakehouse datasets and semantic-model inputs.
• Implement Spark- and SQL-based transformations to produce curated datasets.
• Own pipelines and datasets including monitoring, troubleshooting, and production support.
• Collaborate across teams to translate requirements into scalable data solutions and ensure governance.

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Data Analytics, or a related field

Tools

Python

PySpark

Spark

SQL

Azure

Azure Data Factory

Azure Synapse

Microsoft Fabric / Lakehouse patterns

Fabric Lakehouse

GitHub

Azure DevOps

Jira

Job description

Vantage Data Centers Management Company LLC in Denver, CO is seeking a data engineer to build and scale governed Azure data foundations for enterprise reporting, operational intelligence, and AI-enabled consumption across North America. You will design, implement, and operate data pipelines on Azure, focusing on reliability and scalability.

You will work with PySpark, Python, SQL, and Azure Data Factory, maintain lakehouse structures, data dictionaries, lineage, and governance, collaborating