Data Engineer (Data Strategy & Platforms)

Data Engineer (Data Strategy & Platforms) Location: Houston, Texas (hybrid) | Type: Full Time | Experience: 3 to 7+ years About the Role You will work with clients to design, build, and optimize modern data platforms in the Microsoft data ecosystem. The focus is on scalable, cloud-native solutions that support advanced analytics, reporting, and data-driven decision-making across enterprise environments. This role sits in high-impact transformation work across Financial Services and Energy. It is a recurring need around data strategy and platform skills, and experience in the ETRM space is especially relevant. Responsibilities Design and implement scalable data architectures using Microsoft Fabric, including OneLake, Lakehouses, Warehouses, Pipelines, Spark, and Shortcuts. Build and optimize ingestion and transformation pipelines using Fabric Data Pipelines, Dataflows Gen2, PySpark, SQL, Azure Data Factory, and Azure Synapse. Create reusable frameworks for data quality, metadata-driven processing, schema management, and incremental ETL/ELT patterns. Partner with analytics and business teams to deliver performant semantic models, reporting solutions, and Power BI integrations. Support client engagements through workshops, roadmap development, effort estimation, and stakeholder communication. Qualifications 3 to 7+ years of data engineering experience using Microsoft and Azure-based technologies. Strong hands-on expertise with Microsoft Fabric, including OneLake, Lakehouse, Warehouse, Data Pipelines, Spark Notebooks, and Power BI integration. Advanced proficiency in SQL, T-SQL, PySpark/Python, and modern data modeling techniques such as star schema, snowflake, and data vault. Experience implementing CDC, SCD, incremental processing, partitioning strategies, and performance optimization for large-scale data environments. Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, ideally from consulting or client-facing environments. Preferred Experience in or around ETRM / energy trading data environments. Experience with Azure Event Hub, IoT Hub, Microsoft Purview, and Azure Key Vault. Exposure to CI/CD and DevOps practices, including Git integration and deployment pipelines. Knowledge of streaming ingestion and real-time analytics architectures. Experience supporting data science workloads and feature store implementations. Management consulting experience within Financial Services or Energy. #J-18808-Ljbffr Elios AI