Job Description: Senior Azure Data Engineer: NJ/NY Metro area preferred

📍 Location

New York, NY remote

🏢 Employment Type

Full-Time

About the Role

We are seeking a highly skilled Azure Data Engineer to join our team and play a key role in designing, building, and maintaining scalable data solutions on Microsoft Azure. The ideal candidate will have strong expertise in cloud-based data engineering, ETL pipelines, and data integration, with a focus on enabling advanced analytics and business intelligence.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain data pipelines and ETL processes using Azure Data Factory, Databricks, and Synapse Analytics.

• Build and optimize data lakes, data warehouses, and data models to support reporting and analytics.

• Collaborate with business stakeholders, data scientists, and analysts to understand requirements and deliver high-quality solutions.

• Implement data governance, security, and compliance best practices across Azure environments.

• Monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize data workflows for performance and reliability.

• Work with structured and unstructured data sources, integrating data from multiple systems.

• Support migration of on-premise data systems to Azure cloud.

Required Skills & Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field.

• 5+ years of experience in data engineering with at least 2+ years on Azure cloud.

• Strong hands-on experience with:

  • Azure Data Factory

  • Azure Databricks / Spark

  • Azure Synapse Analytics

  • Azure SQL Database / Cosmos DB

• Proficiency in SQL, Python, and PySpark.

• Experience with data modeling, data warehousing, and ETL design.

• Knowledge of Azure DevOps and CI/CD pipelines for data solutions.

• Familiarity with Power BI or other visualization tools is a plus.

• Excellent problem-solving, communication, and collaboration skills.