Senior Data Engineer

Description:

📍 Location: On-Site (Islamabad)
🕒 Experience Level: 8–10 Years
🏢 Domain: Enterprise Data Engineering

We’re looking for a Senior Data Engineer with deep expertise in Microsoft Azure data services to design and deliver scalable, enterprise-grade data platforms.
This is a high-impact role focused on data modeling, lakehouse architecture, AI/ML enablement, and cloud optimization.

🔹 Key Responsibilities:
→ Design & build scalable data pipelines on Azure
→ Develop ETL/ELT workflows using Azure Data Factory (ADF)
→ Implement enterprise data models (Dimensional, Relational, Lakehouse)
→ Optimize big data workloads using Azure Databricks
→ Enable AI/ML use cases via curated datasets & Azure ML pipelines
→ Enforce governance, security, quality & compliance standards
→ Monitor production performance, reliability & cost optimization
→ Contribute to CI/CD automation & DevOps best practices

🔹 Required Skills:
✔ Strong hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure data ecosystem
✔ Azure Data Factory (ADF) & Azure Databricks expertise
✔ Proficiency in SQL & Python
✔ Experience with ADLS & modern lakehouse architectures
✔ Understanding of data governance, lineage & quality frameworks

🔹 Nice to Have:
➕ Delta Lake & modern data architecture patterns
➕ DevOps, CI/CD & Infrastructure-as-Code
➕ Azure Security (RBAC, Key Vault, encryption best practices)
🎓 Bachelor’s in Computer Science / Engineering / Data Science (Master’s preferred)