Senior Data Engineer — Azure Synapse, Data Mesh & Self-Service Analytics (Remote)

Node.Digital LLC; Washington (District of Columbia); Remote; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical

Dental

Vision

Basic Life

Health Saving Account

401K matching

Three weeks of PTO/Sick

11 Paid Holidays

Pre-Approved Online Training

Job summary

Node.Digital LLC in Herndon, VA (Remote Work) seeks a Senior Data Engineer to architect and optimize data pipelines and architectures for products and analysts. You will implement ELT/ETL in Azure Synapse and Azure ML, migrate data to Azure Data Lake, and ensure robust source control and QA across all pipelines.

The role requires a public trust clearance, a strong background in SQL, Python, and modern data stacks, and a track record of scalable, secure data solutions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in data engineering, CS, data science, ML, math, or related field.
• Alternatively, five years of applied work experience in any of the same fields.
• Experience with cloud-based ELT/ETL in data analytics environments.

Responsibilities

• Provide authoritative expertise on data engineering methods and best practices.
• Design, implement, and maintain data architecture with source control.
• Develop ELT/ETL pipelines in Azure Synapse and Azure ML using SDKs.
• Migrate data into Azure Data Lake Storage and normalize entity attributes.
• Review and improve architecture, pipelines, and dependencies; address bottlenecks and drift.
• Establish quality controls, logging, and validation checks across pipelines.
• Ensure source control across pipelines and analytics codebases.
• Optimize ingestion, processing and storage for diverse datasets including Parquet.
• Develop self-service capabilities for analysts to query and export data.
• Document data architecture, dictionaries, ER diagrams, and process maps.

Skills

Data engineering

Azure Synapse

Azure Machine Learning

ETL/ELT pipelines

Python

PySpark

Polars

Pandas

SQL

Education

Bachelor's degree in data engineering, computer science, data science, ML, mathematics, or related field

5 years of applied work experience in related fields

Tools

Azure Data Lake Storage

Azure Synapse

Azure Machine Learning

Python SDK

Git

Parquet

Job description

Node.Digital LLC in Herndon, VA (Remote Work) seeks a Senior Data Engineer to architect and optimize data pipelines and architectures for products and analysts. You will implement ELT/ETL in Azure Synapse and Azure ML, migrate data to Azure Data Lake, and ensure robust source control and QA across all pipelines.

The role requires a public trust clearance, a strong background in SQL, Python, and modern data stacks, and a track record of scalable, secure data solutions.