Senior Data Engineer

Job Title: Senior Data Engineer Job location: Columbus, OH (Onsite) Job Type: Contract To Hire Interview process: In-person – Columbus office Job Description: We are seeking a mid-level to senior Data Engineers with Microsoft Fabric experience to support our growing Data & Analytics organization. Candidate should have recent, hands-on experience designing, building, and supporting production data solutions. Strong communication skills and the ability to work effectively with both technical and business stakeholders are important. The role will operate under the guidance of our Data Platform Manager. ROLE & RESPONSIBILITIES: • Responsible for the development and maintenance of data management platforms, including file structure, dimensional design of tables, and loading of data from source systems, both internally and externally. • Ensures consistency in naming and calculations across all data warehouses in alignment with the organization’s Business Glossary. • Implements and maintains security measures to protect organizational data, in alignment with operations and data governance teams, including encryption, access control, secure data transfer, auditing, and monitoring. • Coordinates with data owners, data stewards, data reviewers, and other stakeholders to ensure consistent understanding of terms. Reconciles differences in terminology between sources systems and data repositories. • Leads the ability to design management platforms to support the needs of consuming applications such as Power BI, Excel, AzureML, Alteryx, and even custom application code. • Ensures proper security of data at rest, during movement, and least privileges for user consumption. Maintains enough working knowledge of security protocols to converse with architecture, engineering, development, and outside auditing partners. • Ensures that all sourcing is coming from an abstraction layer so the source system can be modified with minimal coordination with the warehouse team. • Maintains a system of data requests and works with IT leadership for prioritization. • Maintains data management platform standards and guardrails. Escalates variances from standards, and misusage of systems, to IT leadership. • Completes peer code reviews. • Responsible for self managed upskilling in advanced technologies and deep business knowledge. • Mentors new team members working on data system or reporting development and citizen developers across the company. • Maintains a clear understanding of client’s goals and practices proper policies and procedures. REQUIRED EXPERIENCE: • Microsoft Fabric • PySpark • Data warehousing • ETL/ELT development • Data modeling • Experience working within the Microsoft data platform ecosystem PREFERRED EXPERIENCE: • Azure Data Factory • Azure Synapse Analytics • Power BI • Experience supporting reporting and analytics environments • Distribution, manufacturing, or similar business environments