Lead Azure Data Engineer

Job Title: Lead Azure Data Engineer
Work Location & Reporting Address: Houston, TX 77079

Note : It will be work from office (minimum 3 days in week) and Candidate should be willing to come to Houston on Day 1 after selection.

Job Details:
Required Skills & Qualifications

Technical Skills

• Strong experience with Azure Data Platform, including:
• Azure Data Factory
• Azure Databricks
• Azure Data Lake Storage (ADLS Gen2)
• Azure Notebooks
• Hands-on expertise with:
• ETL / ELT pipeline design
• Delta Lake tables and ACID transactions
• Spark (PySpark, Spark SQL)
• Data modeling for analytics and AI
• Strong SQL skills and data modeling experience.
• Experience with CI/CD for data pipelines (Azure DevOps, Git).
• Exposure to GenAI and LLM data patterns (RAG, embeddings, text pipelines).
• Familiarity with supporting AI/ML workflows, including:
• Feature engineering
• Model training data preparation
• Inference data pipelines
• Leadership & Delivery Skills
• Proven ability to lead teams and deliver complex data platforms.
• Strong architectural thinking and problem-solving skills.
• Promote AI-first data design principles across teams.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management abilities.
• Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments.
• Enable upskilling of teams in AI-friendly data engineering patterns.

Minimum years of experience
> 10 years

Certifications Needed :Yes
BE

Interview Process (Is face to face required?) Yes