[Remote] Data Engineer
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. The employer is an employee-owned environmental consulting and engineering firm seeking a Data Engineer to own and expand its enterprise data platform. The role focuses on Microsoft Fabric and OneLake, data ingestion, lakehouse architecture, ETL/ELT pipelines, data quality, governance, integrations, and enabling AI and automation initiatives.
Responsibilities
- Serve as the long-term technical owner and subject matter expert for Microsoft Fabric and OneLake
- Partner with a third-party implementation team to design, build, and deploy a new unified enterprise data platform
- Develop and maintain scalable data pipelines that bring information from disparate systems and sources into the centralized data environment
- Help define how data is ingested, transformed, structured, stored, and made accessible to teams across the organization
- Build and maintain reliable ETL/ELT processes and data integrations
- Monitor and optimize data pipelines and platform performance, troubleshooting issues as they arise
- Work closely with application, SQL, AI, and Power Platform developers to understand data requirements and deliver effective solutions
- Partner with internal AI development resources to make enterprise data available for emerging generative AI and automation initiatives
- Support and evolve established data governance, quality, security, and documentation standards
- Evaluate new capabilities within the Microsoft data ecosystem and recommend opportunities to improve the platform
- Serve as a trusted technical resource for questions related to the unified data environment
Skills
- 4+ years of professional Data Engineering experience, with the ability to independently own technical projects and solve complex data challenges
- Hands-on experience within the Microsoft Azure data ecosystem
- Strong SQL skills and experience working with relational and enterprise data sources
- Experience designing, developing, and maintaining ETL/ELT pipelines and data integrations
- Experience within environmental consulting, architecture, engineering, construction (AEC), utilities, government contracting, or a related professional-services environment
- Understanding of modern data warehouse, data lake, and/or lakehouse architectures
- Experience integrating data from multiple applications, databases, APIs, or enterprise systems
- Ability to troubleshoot data quality, pipeline, integration, and performance issues
- Familiarity with data governance, security, access management, lineage, and data quality principles
- Ability to work effectively with both technical and nontechnical stakeholders
- Strong problem-solving skills with the curiosity and initiative to learn new technologies
- Comfortable working in an environment where you can wear multiple hats and take meaningful ownership of solutions
- Experience with Microsoft Fabric and/or OneLake strongly preferred
Benefits
- Work remotely from anywhere in the U.S. with limited travel
- Comprehensive medical coverage
- Dental coverage
- Vision coverage
- Additional perks
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