
Senior Data Engineer – Microsoft Fabric
2020 Companies
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Chicago • Illinois • Texas • United States
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About the role
- Build Scalable Client Data Pipelines for scale from day one
- Develop and maintain Microsoft Fabric pipelines and notebooks
- Implement incremental loads, watermarking, and merge logic (Delta Lake)
- Design ingestion patterns that support rapid onboarding of new clients
- Engineer monitoring and observability to prevent SLA breaches while catching problems before clients do
- Design Lakehouse Models for Growth
- Implement Medallion architecture (Bronze/Silver/Gold)
- Build dimensional models for revenue-focused analytics
- Design reusable, scalable data structures across multiple clients
- Design data structures that don’t become someone else’s technical debt
- Optimize partitioning and storage for predictable performance
- Optimize Power BI Performance that Clients Actually Notice
- Improve Direct Lake and semantic model performance in Power BI
- Reduce refresh times and memory usage
- Partner with BI developers to maintain high modeling standards
- Improve Platform Efficiency That Protects Margin
- Monitor Fabric capacity usage and workload patterns
- Optimize refresh strategies and reduce compute spikes
- Contribute to GitHub workflow and future dbt integration roadmap
Requirements
- 4–7 years of data engineering experience
- Strong SQL and hands-on Delta Lake experience
- Microsoft Fabric experience that you’ve built, not just read about
- Dimensional modeling you can defend in a design review
- Power BI semantic model optimization experience
- Experience building scalable ingestion frameworks
- A track record in client-facing or revenue-driven analytics environments
- Critical thinking skills
- Exceptional communication skills, written and verbal, that translate complex technical decisions for non-technical audiences
- A growth mindset, you're energized by hard problems, not slowed down by them, strong team player
- Preferred dbt experience
- GitHub-based development workflows and CI/CD experience
- Agile mindset and development experience
Benefits
- Competitive salary, paid weekly
- Next day pay on demand with DailyPay
- Health/Dental/Vision benefits
- 401K Program with matching
- Paid Time Off
- Paid Holidays
- Scholarship opportunities for employees and direct family members
- Employee Assistance Program
- Leadership Development Program
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Hard Skills & Tools
SQLDelta LakeMicrosoft Fabricdimensional modelingPower BIdata engineeringingestion frameworksdbtGitHubCI/CD
Soft Skills
critical thinkingcommunication skillsteam playergrowth mindsetproblem-solving