Azure Senior Data Engineer

$111,000 - $152,000/Yr

BDO - Oak Brook, IL

Full-time - Mid Level

Oak Brook, IL

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

This position will work with cutting edge technology, delivering high-quality solutions across various industries while overseeing teams on engagements of varying sizes and scopes. The role involves hands-on delivery of data analytics projects, contributing to the development and unit testing of solutions, and offers continuous career development opportunities.

Responsibilities

• Designs and implements best in class data ingestion strategies, data warehouse and data mart structures, semantic layers and models, visualizations, streaming processes, API integrations, and automation (RPA) solutions for end-to-end data analytics solutions.
• Listens to client needs to align solution with business requirements and delivery schedule.
• Creates written functional and technical designs.
• Participates in project status and stand meetings, and assists with providing aggregated project status for project and program managers.
• Assists with SLA compliance of solutions, and performs performance tuning and optimization efforts of end-to-end solutions.
• Writes code using multiple languages and correctly applies frameworks, architectural patterns, and software development principles.
• Delivers high-performance, scalable, repeatable, and secure deliverables with broad impact.
• Assists with implementation of data governance programs and best practices.
• Performs the cleaning and transforming of data from source systems into analytics models.
• Implements models to support data visualizations and integrations.
• Assists with implementing DevOps, DataOps and MLOps methodologies on projects.
• Writes custom integration logic in applicable programming languages.
• Assists project managers with work breakdown structure creation, project estimation, resource staffing, workload planning and adjustments throughout the project lifecycle.
• Assists clients with licensing, security, and cost estimation of solutions.
• Performs code reviews to ensure adherence to standards.
• Works directly with clients and team members to establish secure data analytics platforms and infrastructure.
• Contributes to successful deployments of developed solutions and integration of DevOps tools.
• Maintains a broad and current understanding of data analytics and business intelligence strategies, cloud platforms, methodologies, and tools.
• Builds client relationships during project execution, effectively becoming a trusted advisor of the client.
• Participates in support activities for existing software solutions.

Requirements

• High School Diploma or GED equivalent required; Bachelor's degree preferred in Information Systems, Data Science or Computer Science.
• Five (5) or more years of experience within Data Analytics, Business Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence, or Application Development required.
• One (1) or more years of experience technically leading development projects preferred.
• One (1) or more years of consulting experience or implementation of cloud-based data analytics solutions preferred.
• Strong SQL skills including Data Definition Language (DDL), Data Manipulation Language (DML), views, functions, stored procedures, or performance tuning required.
• Experience with Data Warehousing, Data Modeling, Semantic Model Definition or Star Schema Construction required.
• Hands-on delivery experience of end-to-end cloud data analytics solutions within Azure or AWS preferred.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience with one (1) or more of the following computer languages: C#, Python, Java, Scala preferred.
• Experience with tabular modeling within Microsoft Fabric, Power BI, or Azure Analysis Services preferred.
• Experience with Git and DevOps deployment technologies preferred.
• Experience with Linux preferred.
• Experience with one (1) or more of the following: Data Lake Medallion Architecture, Batch and/or streaming data ingestion into a data lake, AI Algorithms/Machine Learning, Automation tools such as UiPath, Alteryx, etc., Computer Vision based AI technologies preferred.

Benefits

• Continuous career development opportunities
• High-quality solutions across various industries
• Hands-on delivery of data analytics projects