Data Service Engineer (Azure Data)

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Job Title: Data Service Engineer (Azure Data) Location: Remote (within Ireland)

Duration: FTE

Experience Level: 10+ years

Overview As a Data Service Engineer (Azure Data), you will work directly with enterprise customers to design, deploy, optimize, modernize, and support data platforms built on Microsoft Azure. You will act as a trusted technical advisor, helping customers leverage Azure data services to achieve scalable, secure, governed, and AI-ready data solutions.

By utilizing Microsoft intellectual property, best practices, and cloud adoption methodologies, you will guide customers through data platform transformation initiatives including analytics modernization, data engineering, governance, real-time analytics, and database migration.

You will collaborate closely with customer architects, data engineers, analysts, developers, and business stakeholders to accelerate adoption of Microsoft Azure Data and AI technologies.

Key Responsibilities Customer Engagement

• Serve as a trusted advisor for Azure Data Platform solutions.
• Lead technical workshops, architectural discussions, and design reviews.
• Assist customers in defining modernization and migration strategies.
• Deliver technical guidance aligned with Microsoft best practices.
• Support proof-of-concepts, pilots, and production deployments.

Data Platform Engineering

• Design and implement enterprise-scale data architectures.
• Buld and optimize data ingestion, transformation, and orchestration pipelines.
• Develop scalable data lake, lakehouse, warehouse, and analytics solutions.
• Implement CI/CD, DevOps, and automation practices for data workloads.
• Monitor platform performance, reliability, and cost optimization.

Modernization & Migration

• Migrate on-premises databases and analytics workloads to Azure.
• Design hybrid and cloud-native data architectures.
• Support modernization of legacy ETL and reporting platforms.
• Enable AI-ready data foundations using Microsoft Fabric and Azure Data services.

Governance & Security

• Implement data governance frameworks.
• Apply data security, privacy, compliance, and retention policies.
• Enable metadata management and lineage tracking.
• Design secure access controls using RBAC and data protection mechanisms.

Knowledge Transfer

• Deliver technical workshops and customer enablement sessions.
• Produce architecture documentation and operational runbooks.
• Mentor customer teams on Azure Data services and best practices.

Required Technical Skills The candidate should possess strong expertise (300–400 level) in the following areas:

Azure Data Platform

Data Storage

• Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2
• Microsoft Fabric OneLake
• Azure Blob Storage
• Azure SQL Database
• Azure SQL Managed Instance
• Azure Cosmos DB

Data Integration & ETL

• Azure Data Factory (ADF)
• Microsoft Fabric Data Pipelines
• Azure Logic Apps
• Event-driven architectures

Analytics & Processing

• Azure Synapse Analytics
• Microsoft Fabric Data Engineering
• Microsoft Fabric Data Warehouse
• Azure Databricks
• Apache Spark
• Delta Lake

Data Warehousing

• Dimensional Modeling
• Data Mart Design
• Data Warehouse Architecture
• Star and Snowflake Schema Design

Streaming & Real-Time Analytics

• Azure Event Hub
• Stream Processing
• Structured Streaming
• Real-Time Intelligence using Fabric

Database Technologies

• SQL Server
• T-SQL
• Query Optimization
• Performance Tuning
• High Availability & Disaster Recovery

Programming & Development

• SQL
• Python
• PySpark
• Scala (preferred)
• PowerShell (preferred)

Governance & Security

• Microsoft Purview
• Data Lineage
• Data Catalog
• Data Classification
• RBAC
• Data Encryption
• Compliance & Regulatory Controls

Reporting & Visualization

• Power BI
• Fabric Semantic Models
• Report Development
• Dashboard Design

These technologies align with Microsoft's Azure Data Engineer readiness and data engineering learning paths.

Desired Skills

• Data Lakehouse Architecture
• Data Mesh Concepts
• AI and Machine Learning Data Preparation
• Azure DevOps
• GitHub Actions

Why Join Sonata Software?

At Sonata, you´ll have an outstanding opportunity. The chance to use your skills and imagination to push the boundaries of what´s possible. To build never seen before solutions to some of the world’s toughest problems. You´ll be challenged, but you will not be alone. You´ll be joining a team of diverse innovators, all driven to go beyond the status quo to craft what comes net.

Sonata Software is an Equal Opportunity Employer encouraging diversity in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, national origin, gender identity, age, religion, disability, sexual orientation, veteran status, marital status, or any other characteristics protected by law.