Location: Anywhere in East Coast / Mid West

Title: Azure Data Lead

Job Type: Full time Permanent

Salary: DOE + Benefits

USA positions: Candidates who are eligible to work in the USA are encouraged to apply.

Responsibilities

  • Strong experience developing data solutions using Azure Data services including ADF, ADLS, AzureSQL, AAS, Azure Storage , Power BI, ABS,Synapse  and other services within the Azure data framework
  • Lead workshops with many teams to define data ingestion, validation, mining, engineering, modeling, visualization, AI, and analytics
  • Strong understanding on Azure data services security practices
  • Develop architectural solutions/designs to project execution teams for implementation
  • Experience with on-prem Microsoft technologies like SQL Server, SSIS, SSAS is a plus
  • Own and aggressively drive forward specific areas of Azure technology development & architecture
  • Lead the technical planning & requirements gathering phases including estimate, develop, test, manage projects, architect and deliver complex projects
  • Determine Project and solution estimation and participate/recommend team structure definition
  • Participate in design sessions, demos and prototype sessions, testing and training workshops with business users and other IT associates
  • Support multiple Agile Scrum teams with planning, scoping and creation of technical solutions for the new product capabilities, through to continuous delivery to production.
  • Provide end to end vision and hands on experience with Azure Cloud Platform
  • Provide vision and leadership to define the core technologies necessary to meet client needs including: development tools and methodologies, package solutions, systems architecture, security techniques, and emerging technologies
  • Liaise with offshore team and clients for resolving technical dependencies, issues, and risks.
  • Mentor and provide architectural guidance to multiple teams building innovative applications.
  • Drive common vision, practices and capabilities across teams.
  • Engage with business stakeholders to understand required capabilities, integrating business knowledge with technical solutions
  • Engage with Technical Architects and technical staff to determine the most appropriate technical strategy and designs to meet business needs
  • Demonstrate broad solutions technical leadership, impacting significant technical direction, exerting influence outside of the immediate team and driving change
 

Qualifications

  • Strong communication and client facing skills especially non-technical business users
  • At least 6+ years of experience in developing and implementing large scale data processing/data storage/data distribution systems particularly in Azure
  • Most recent 2+ years of experience in delivering large scale Azure projects
  • At least 3+ years in presales and demo using Azure data services including ADW and ADLS
  • Should have experience designing service management, orchestration, monitoring and management requirements of cloud platform
  • At least 3+ years of experience in migrating large volumes of data using standard Azure automation tools from on premise and cloud infrastructure to Azure
  • At least 5+ years of working with large multi-vendor environment with multiple teams and people as a part of the project
  • At least 2+ year of working with Power BI
  • 5+ years of experience with Team Foundation Azure DevOps/DataOps/GitHub and other code management toolsets
  • Ability to handle multiple projects when needed
 

Good to have:

  • Familiar with any Testing automation tools and technology like Cucumber, Selenium, QuerySurge..etc
  • Good to have some familiarities around ODATA restful services
 

Preferred Skills and Education:

Certification in Azure data services – DP200, DP201

Please email your resume to girish.bandaru@yash.com.