ADF Data Engineer

ADF Data Engineer
Houston, TX, 77079
Hire Type: Contract

Experience: 5 8 years in data engineering with at least 3+ years on Azure.
Azure Data Factory: Pipelines, data flows (mapping/wrangling), triggers, integration runtimes, parameterization, error handling & retries.
Azure Databricks: Databricks Notebooks, Jobs/Workflows, PySpark/Scala, Delta Lake, cluster configuration and optimization.
Programming: Advanced Python or Scala (at least one), strong coding standards, modularization, and unit testing (e.g., pytest).
SQL: Expert-level SQL (CTEs, window functions, query tuning), working with large datasets.
Data Storage & Formats: ADLS Gen2, Delta Lake, Parquet, partitioning, Z-Ordering, OPTIMIZE/VACUUM.
Ops & CI/CD: Git, branching strategies, CI/CD for ADF/Databricks; environment promotion; Infrastructure-as-Code exposure is a plus.