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Lead, Azure Data Solutions

Full-time

Hybrid

Deadline

November 22, 2024

About the organization

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In A Nutshell

Location

Hybrid Washington, DC, USA

Salary

$148,800-$213,900

Job Type

Full-time

Experience Level

Senior-level

Deadline to apply

November 22, 2024

Oversee the management, architecture, engineering, and maintenance of scalable and efficient data solutions leveraging primarily Microsoft technologies.

Responsibilities

  • Build complex data solutions in Azure environment.
  • Leads data strategies, policies, and procedures to cultivate a data driven culture and develop standards of operation for an enterprise data program.
  • Align and engage with internal stakeholders to define business requirements to ensure operational quality, excellence, and success.
  • Develop strong partnerships with other IT teams including Network Services, and Corporate Information Security teams to ensure the security, availability, accuracy, integrity, and reliability of our data and models.
  • Engineers effective and secure data workflows; creates and maintains pipelines for data ingestion, processing, and transformation; optimizes storage.
  • Collaborates with team members to ensure security, compliance, and permissions in data handling and archiving.
  • Manages data integrations, performs extract, transform, and load (ETL) functions from various sources into data warehouses or data lakes.
  • Builds conceptual, logical, and physical data models that streamline and support our enterprise data management program.
  • Creates and maintains relevant data management documents, including semantic models, data dictionaries, master data management, etc.
  • Provides leadership (management, mentoring, and training) for internal staff and oversees the work of external consultants.
  • Actively engage in governance committees to influence data strategy, optimize system capabilities, and ensure information integrity.
  • Ensures data quality and accuracy to support predictive analysis, visualizations, and reporting needs.
  • Keeps abreast of technology changes and innovations in the data field.
  • Performs other duties as assigned.

Skillset

  • Bachelor’s degree in Data, Engineering, Computer Science or related field; or equivalent experience.
  • Must have 10+ years of experience with:
    • Azure, (Azure AI preferred), Fabric, Power BI, SQL. Including data solutions, Data Modeling, data management, architecture, and engineering.
    • Experience in writing efficient, reusable, testable, and scalable code using PySpark.
  • Must have experience in supervising, mentoring, and training staff.
    • Organizational, quantitative, and analytical skills.
    • Attention to detail, ability to prioritize, and work accurately under time constraints.
    • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
    • Ability to work in cross-functional teams, as well as operate with considerable independence and discretion.
    • Ability to be agile, responsive, and flexible in managing multiple projects and priorities.
  • Experience in developing and managing relationships with vendors.
  • Committed to building and strengthening a culture of inclusion within and across teams.

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