Senior Azure Data Engineer – Full Remote – Contractor – Salary In USD

A remote (Senior) Azure Data Engineer role for an international organization in New York, focusing on data infrastructure, pipeline development, and stakeholder collaboration.

Location: Remote (US)

Responsibilities

• Collecting large, complex sets of data that meet non-functional and functional business requirements.
• Identifying, designing, and implementing internal process improvements including re-designing infrastructure for greater scalability, optimizing data delivery, and automating manual processes.
• Building required infrastructure for optimal extraction, transformation and loading of data from various data sources using Azure and SQL technologies.
• Building analytical tools to utilize the data pipeline, providing actionable insight into key business performance metrics including operational efficiency and customer acquisition.
• Working with stakeholders including cloud infrastructure teams, data teams, governance, and information management officers, to collaboratively design, develop and deploy and support data solutions and related infrastructure.

Requirements

• Bachelor or University degree
• Minimum 3 years of experience with Azure Data Factory - Extraction, Transformation and Loading experience
• Minimum 3 years of experience with Azure Storage/ Data Lake / Data Warehouse
• Minimum 2 years of experience with Database architecture testing methodology, including execution of test plans, debugging, and testing scripts and tools
• Minimum 2 years of experience with Azure Synapse analytics
• Experience with Azure DevOps and Azure Purview is nice to have;
• Excellent knowledge of English (both written and verbal) is required.

Benefits

• Challenging role for an international organization in New York
• Attractive salary package

Additional Information

• Candidates need to be able to work 4-6 hours per day in the normal office hours of New York, US. Example 9AM NY time equals 7:30PM Sri Lanka time.
• Candidates need to be fluent in English. All positions are long-term.