Minor Hotels Europe and Americas

Azure Data Engineer – Pyspark

Minor Hotels Europe and Americas

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: NewarkNew JerseyUnited States

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Salary

💰 $110,841 - $145,000 per year

About the role

  • Design and implement batch and streaming data pipelines on Azure Databricks (PySpark); author Spark SQL for transformations and analytics.
  • Orchestrate workflows with Azure Data Factory and/or Synapse pipelines; integrate with Lake Storage.
  • Model and maintain lakehouse structures (e.g., Delta Lake), ensuring robust partitioning, schema evolution, and performance.
  • Implement data quality checks, observability, and SLAs across pipelines.
  • Optimize jobs for cost and performance (cluster sizing, caching, shuffle reduction, partition strategy).
  • Collaborate with architecture/platform teams on CI/CD (Azure DevOps), secrets management (Key Vault), and security (RBAC, PIM).
  • Contribute to governance and metadata practices; document lineage and technical design.
  • Support release cycles, incident triage, and production hardening; drive continuous improvements.

Requirements

  • Hands on expertise in PySpark (DataFrames, Spark SQL, performance tuning) on Azure Databricks-this is the primary skill focus.
  • Strong SQL and data modeling for analytical workloads (star/snowflake, lakehouse patterns).
  • Proven delivery with Azure Data Factory/Synapse for pipeline orchestration and scheduling.
  • Solid knowledge of Azure storage (ADLS Gen2, partitions, file formats-Parquet/Delta).
  • Version control and CI/CD with Git/Azure DevOps; automated testing in data pipelines.
  • Experience operating pipelines in production (monitoring, alerting, reliability).
  • Nice to have (preferred) Microsoft Fabric exposure is nice to have (not mandatory)
  • Data governance tools (e.g., Purview), Power BI integration, Delta Live Tables.
  • Python packaging best practices; basic PowerShell for automation.
  • Domain experience in financial services/asset management.
Benefits
  • Flexible work
  • Healthcare including dental, vision, mental health, and well-being programs
  • Financial well-being programs such as 401(k) and Employee Share Ownership Plan
  • Paid time off and paid holidays
  • Paid parental leave
  • Family building benefits like adoption assistance, surrogacy, and cryopreservation
  • Social well-being benefits like subsidized back-up child/elder care and tutoring
  • Mentoring, coaching and learning programs
  • Employee Resource Groups
  • Disaster Relief
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Hard Skills & Tools
PySparkSpark SQLdata modelingSQLAzure Data FactoryAzure SynapseDelta Lakedata quality checksperformance tuningPython
Soft Skills
collaborationincident triagecontinuous improvement