Data Engineer - Fabric

Contract position, hybrid in Newark, NJ with a major financial firm. Data Engineer • Build and maintain data pipelines that collect, store, and transform data to support analytics use cases and business outcomes. • Implement data ingestion and transformation workflows in Microsoft Fabric, using Fabric-native capabilities such as notebooks, pipelines, and lakehouse patterns. • Develop and operationalize data solutions across lakehouse layers (e.g., landing and standardized "Bronze” data through curated "Silver/Gold” outputs) aligned to the platform's workspace architecture and OneLake design. • Ensure data solutions are reliable and supportable by incorporating monitoring, issue resolution, and ongoing enhancements to pipelines and datasets. • Collaborate across teams (engineering, analytics, product, and stakeholders) to translate data needs into scalable, reusable solutions and improved workflow efficiency. • Support secure and appropriate use of Fabric assets by following established access and workspace practices.