
Azure Data Engineer – Pyspark
Minor Hotels Europe and Americas
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Newark • New Jersey • United 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