Senior Synapse Engineer

Ness Digital Engineering

Senior Synapse Engineer managing Azure Synapse environment to replace Alteryx workflows and optimize data pipelines. Collaborating with teams for effective production-quality execution and troubleshooting.

Posted 4/20/2026full-timeRemote • 🇨🇦 CanadaSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AzureETLPySparkSQLSSIS

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Build Synapse pipelines, SQL transformations, datasets, and linked services.
Translate Alteryx logic into Synapse SQL, PySpark, or Data Flows.
Tune performance of dedicated SQL pools (partitioning, indexing, caching).
Implement CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps or GitHub.
Configure and manage data security, RLS, access roles, and auditing.
Optimize ADLS Gen2 folder structures, file formats, and Delta/Parquet usage.
Collaborate with the Data Modeller to ensure accurate implementation of models.
Monitor Synapse environments, performance, costs, and autoscaling.
Troubleshoot issues across ingestion, transformation, orchestration phases.
Provide architectural guidance and platform best practices.

Requirements

What you’ll need

8+ years in data engineering with 3+ years in Azure Synapse.
Strong T‑SQL, ETL/ELT pipeline development, and workload optimization.
Experience migrating Alteryx, SSIS, Databricks, or equivalent ETL systems.
Knowledge of Delta Lake, Parquet, partitioning, schema evolution.
CI/CD experience in Azure DevOps, Git, environment promotion.

Benefits

Comp & perks

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Technology Ness Digital Engineering is a full-lifecycle digital engineering firm headquartered in New York. The company offers services that encompass digital advisory and scaled engineering capabilities across various industries, including Financial Services, Manufacturing & Transportation, and Media & Entertainment. With expertise in cloud services, data and analytics, and intelligent engineering, Ness has developed a reputation for helping businesses achieve digital transformation. The company operates globally across 11 innovation hubs, utilizing a globally distributed agile development model called Flexshoring. Ness partners with leading technology platforms like AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Salesforce to provide specialized solutions. In 2022, the global investment firm KKR acquired Ness Digital Engineering. Senior Synapse Engineer Job not on LinkedIn 🔥 0 minutes ago 🇨🇦 Canada – Remote ⏰ Full Time 🟠 Senior 👷🏻‍♀️ Engineer Azure ETL PySpark SQL SSIS Apply Now Find Hiring Managers Customize resume for this job Report problem ☆ Save ☑️ Mark as applied ❌ Hide 📋 Description
Build Synapse pipelines, SQL transformations, datasets, and linked services.
Translate Alteryx logic into Synapse SQL, PySpark, or Data Flows.
Tune performance of dedicated SQL pools (partitioning, indexing, caching).
Implement CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps or GitHub.
Configure and manage data security, RLS, access roles, and auditing.
Optimize ADLS Gen2 folder structures, file formats, and Delta/Parquet usage.
Collaborate with the Data Modeller to ensure accurate implementation of models.
Monitor Synapse environments, performance, costs, and autoscaling.
Troubleshoot issues across ingestion, transformation, orchestration phases.
Provide architectural guidance and platform best practices. 🎯 Requirements
8+ years in data engineering with 3+ years in Azure Synapse.
Strong T‑SQL, ETL/ELT pipeline development, and workload optimization.
Experience migrating Alteryx, SSIS, Databricks, or equivalent ETL systems.
Knowledge of Delta Lake, Parquet, partitioning, schema evolution.
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Hard Skills & Tools

SQLT-SQLPySparkETLELTDelta LakeParquetperformance tuningdata transformationdata orchestration

Soft Skills

collaborationtroubleshootingarchitectural guidancecommunication