Remote Senior Azure Data Consultant

Who We Are

At Trility Consulting®, we’ve built a strong, remote-work culture where people thrive, grow, and support each other – earning us Great Place to Work® Certification. Headquartered in Central Iowa, we embrace flexible schedules and collaboration across geographically distributed teams serving clients from all corners of the United States and globally.

We seek team members with the grit necessary to forge paths where none previously existed, to get back up when circumstances knock them down, to adapt to the changing needs of the client even when it is uncomfortable, and to deliver on our commitments. Candidates must respect and value people, recognize that over-communication is barely good enough, thrive on solving complex problems, have a passion for building teams, and know that delivering what a client actually values is more important than their own predispositions. They understand value proposition, love delivering value, and take pride in learning the expansive and ever-changing business of clients. Candidates are self-motivated and relentlessly working to become more today than they were yesterday.

What You Will Do & The Experience You Will Need

Trility Consulting is actively seeking a Senior Data Engineer with proven Microsoft Fabric experience to help build and scale modern data solutions within a Microsoft Fabric environment. In this role, you will work alongside Trility consultants and client engineers to implement data ingestion pipelines, develop lakehouse solutions, and support the delivery of governed analytics capabilities.

This engagement follows Trility's Coach-and-Contribute model, meaning you'll be actively building production solutions while pairing with client engineers to share best practices and accelerate adoption of Microsoft Fabric.

This is a remote W2 or 1099 position.

At this time, Trility is only able to hire W2 employees who reside in the following states: Alabama, Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, North Carolina, Ohio, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, and Wisconsin.

Your Responsibilities

• Build and maintain Microsoft Fabric data pipelines supporting REST APIs, SQL Server sources, and file-based ingestion processes


• Develop and orchestrate Spark notebooks within Microsoft Fabric


• Implement Bronze, Silver, and Gold lakehouse patterns within OneLake environments


• Develop ingestion processes that accommodate schema drift and evolving source systems


• Build, test, and optimize ETL/ELT processes for performance, scalability, and maintainability


• Support the implementation of Direct Lake semantic model solutions and downstream analytics requirements


• Participate in Azure DevOps CI/CD processes, including Dev/Test/Prod promotion workflows


• Support metadata, lineage, and governance integrations within the broader data platform


• Collaborate closely with client engineers through paired development and knowledge-sharing activities


• Apply data engineering best practices related to testing, monitoring, documentation, and operational support

What You Bring

• 5+ years of experience working with Azure Data Services, including Microsoft Fabric, Azure Data Factory, Databricks, or Synapse


• Hands-on Microsoft Fabric experience in production environments


• Strong experience building and maintaining ETL/ELT pipelines


• Experience developing Spark notebooks and data transformation workflows


• Experience implementing medallion architecture patterns (Bronze, Silver, Gold)


• Strong SQL skills for data transformation, validation, and performance tuning


• Experience integrating data from APIs, relational databases, and file-based sources


• Experience working with Azure DevOps CI/CD processes


• Familiarity with data governance, lineage, and metadata management concepts


• Experience working within lakehouse architectures and cloud-based analytics platforms


• Ability to collaborate effectively with technical teams and participate in client-facing discussions when needed


• Strong written and verbal communication skills

Preferred Experience

• Experience with Direct Lake implementations


• Experience integrating governance platforms such as Alation


• Experience supporting Power BI semantic models and analytics workloads


• Experience working within consulting or professional services environments


• Exposure to Azure OpenAI, Power Apps, or AI-assisted data workflows

How We Put You First 

Trility’s culture is built upon the journey, character, and work ethic of our team members. We are a team of honorable and professional lifelong learners who work together to solve problems proactively.

• Work remotely anywhere in the United States with flexible work hours

• Paid time-off, company holidays, and floating holidays

• Comprehensive benefits with contributions toward premiums

• 401(k) plan

• Sponsored and supported learning opportunities

Job Requirements 

• Must reside within the United States

• Must be authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship now or in the future

• Must be able to pass a background check

We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.