Senior Data Platform Engineer (Analytics & AI)
DistantJob2 days ago
Remote, WorldwideSenior
Responsibilities
- Own the Microsoft Fabric platform end to end, including lakehouses, mirrors, notebooks, pipelines, reliability, monitoring, and capacity cost.
- Administer DOMO and migrate reporting to curated Microsoft Fabric tables with consistent metric definitions.
- Model, organize, and document curated datasets, field descriptions, data contracts, and retrieval-ready data for AI agents in Azure AI Foundry.
- Build and maintain MCP servers and APIs with tool schemas, permission scopes, and logging for internal data access.
- Assess existing architecture and tooling, recommend changes with cost and trade-off analysis, and move approved changes into production.
- Secure and govern data through least-privilege access, PII handling, data quality, lineage, privacy, and accreditation compliance.
- Collaborate using Git, code review, and pull requests in Bitbucket and Azure DevOps.
Requirements
- At least 6 years of data engineering experience on a cloud data platform.
- Hands-on Microsoft Fabric experience, or deep Synapse or Databricks experience with willingness to develop deep Fabric expertise.
- Experience recommending, designing, building, and operating data platform changes in production.
- Strong SQL and Python, including PySpark.
- Experience with lakehouse and reporting data modeling.
- BI platform administration experience; DOMO is preferred and Power BI is acceptable.
- Working knowledge of RAG, embeddings, semantic metadata, APIs, or MCP servers as tools for AI agents.
- Knowledge of Azure fundamentals and data security, including Entra ID, Key Vault, RBAC, row-level security, and PII handling.
- Experience running a production data platform relied on by other teams.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
- Ability to work with AI coding tools, document consistently, collaborate, and communicate with non-technical colleagues.
- Preferred experience with Azure AI Foundry or a similar agent platform, MCP server development, and learning or assessment data.
- Microsoft DP-700 certification is preferred.
Benefits
- Fully remote work arrangement.
- Long-term opportunity.
- Opportunity to be the company’s first dedicated data engineering hire and own its data platform end to end.
About DistantJob
DistantJob is a privately held staffing firm that recruits, vets, and places remote software and IT professionals for companies worldwide. Based in Saint-Laurent, Quebec, it supports direct hires and long-term remote engagements and can act as an employer of record to manage local contracts, payroll, and compliance.