Azure Data Platform Technical Lead - AI / Data Engineering

Full-time

SoftPathTechnologies

Job Title: Azure Data Platform Technical Lead AI / Data Engineering

Position: FTT

Location: Redmond, WA

Job Summary

We are seeking an experienced Azure Data Platform Engineer / Technical Lead to build and support enterprise-scale data platforms and backend services. The successful candidate will have strong hands-on experience across Azure Data Engineering, cloud services, data pipelines, APIs, microservices, and analytics platforms .

Experience with AI/ML or AI-enabled analytics is highly desirable.

Core Technical Requirements

Azure Data Engineering

Azure Databricks
Apache Spark / PySpark
Azure Synapse Analytics
Azure Data Factory
ADLS Gen2
Delta Lake
ETL / ELT
Data Warehousing
Data Modeling
Lakehouse / Medallion Architecture
Bronze, Silver, and Gold data layers
Data Quality and Reconciliation

Databases & Analytics

SQL Server / Azure SQL
Cosmos DB
Kusto / Azure Data Explorer
Experience handling large-scale enterprise datasets

Backend Development

C#
.NET / ASP.NET Core
REST APIs
Microservices
Azure Functions
Event Hubs
Service Bus
Entity Framework Core
Authentication and Authorization

Cloud & DevOps

Microsoft Azure
Azure DevOps
Git
CI/CD
Azure Key Vault
Azure Monitor
Application Insights
Docker
Kubernetes / AKS

Responsibilities

Design and implement enterprise Azure data platforms
Build scalable data ingestion and transformation pipelines
Develop Lakehouse-based analytics solutions
Build APIs and backend services for data integration
Implement event-driven and microservices architectures
Modernize existing data and application platforms
Support cloud migrations and data modernization initiatives
Implement monitoring, logging, telemetry, and alerting
Develop CI/CD pipelines and support production deployments
Ensure secure access to enterprise data and cloud resources

Preferred Skills

AI/ML or AI-enabled analytics
React / Angular
TypeScript
GraphQL
Power BI
Infrastructure as Code
SRE / production support experience

Ideal Candidate

The ideal candidate is a hands-on technical lead who can work across the complete data platform lifecycle:

Data Sources Data Ingestion Processing Lakehouse Analytics APIs Cloud Services Monitoring Production

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