Sr. Azure DevOps Engineer

Job#: 2041021

Job Description:

Azure Data Platform Engineer 
Richmond, VA
Remote flexibility but must live in Richmond, VA area. There is no strict hybrid schedule. 
Please reach out to Brian at [email protected] if interested
*Must be able and willing to work directly on W2 without need for sponsorship now or in the future. Cannot work c2c/1099*
The Senior Azure Data Platform Engineer will perform the following:

• You will be responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining our data platform infrastructure 
• Implement and uphold modern software design principles, ensuring best practices in CI/CD, DevOps, and infrastructure-as-code 
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, such as data engineers, software engineers, infrastructure teams, and business units to enable effective data cohesion to support business processes and analytics 
• You will work closely with the application teams, data analysts, and data scientists to provide data access and enable analytics
• Enable and support self-serve data engineering solutions for both the wider data team and engineers
• Proactively ensure the security and integrity of the platform and data feeds and take part in security and privacy design reviews
• Perform application deployments acting as a gatekeeper to the production environment
• Identify areas for improvement in the data platform infrastructure and develop solutions to address them
• Experience working with large datasets, pipelines, modern warehouse technologies, and data processing (real-time and batch) at large scale
• Collaborate with other teams to ensure successful implementation of data-driven solutions
• Developing and implementing best practices for data integration, data quality, and data governance
• Keeping up-to-date with emerging technologies and trends in data engineering and healthcare technology
• Monitor system performance and troubleshoot any issues
• Ensuring the scalability, reliability, and security of the data platform
• Develop and maintain documentation related to the data platform infrastructure
• Perform incident investigation, diagnosis and provide resolution 
• Ensures business needs are being met by evaluating the ongoing effectiveness of current plans, programs, and initiatives
• Promotes and supports company policies, procedures, mission, values, and standards of ethics and integrity by training and providing direction to others in their use and application, ensuring compliance with them
• Demonstrating creative, critical thinking & troubleshooting skills
• Up to 10-15% travel may be required (domestic and international)

 
Minimum Requirements

• 7 +years Data Platform Engineering experience
• Critical Skills 
• Strong experience in designing, developing, and managing data platforms, and be a self-starter who can work independently and in a team 
• Strong communication skills who quickly establishes credibility and is capable of leading cross-functional technical teams 
• Highly motivated and technically skilled Senior data platform engineer, and you are passionate about developing data-driven solutions
• Experience working with large datasets, pipelines, modern warehouse technologies(Snowflake), and data processing, analytical capabilities(Databricks)at real-time and batch
• Experience with Terraform,  Github and Git Actions
• You should also have experience with cloud technologies Azure
• Experience with distributed systems, streaming systems, and data tools, such as Kubernetes, Kafka
• Strong knowledge of database technologies, such as Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, PostgreSQL, and MongoDB
• Experience with Data Governance concept such as Data lineage, Data Quality etc.
• Design and manage data platforms, including data storage, data processing, data security, and data quality

Education
Bachelor’s degree in a technical field such as Computer science, Applied Mathematics, Engineering or related quantitative.
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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