Senior Cloud Data Engineer​/Data Architect

Tech Trend is seeking a Senior Cloud Data Engineer / Data Architect to design, build, modernize, and support enterprise-scale cloud data platforms, primarily within the Microsoft Azure ecosystem.

This is a senior, hands-on technical role. The ideal candidate will combine strong data architecture expertise with the engineering depth necessary to build and troubleshoot production data solutions using Azure Databricks, Azure Data Lake Storage (ADLS Gen2), Azure Synapse Analytics, Azure Data Factory, SQL, Python/PySpark, and related Azure Data & AI services.

The candidate should be comfortable working across architecture, data engineering, analytics, governance, security, and AI/ML integration and translating business and mission requirements into scalable production solutions.

What We're Looking For

We are not looking for someone who is purely an architect or purely a traditional ETL developer. The successful candidate will be a hands-on Data Engineer / Architect who can move comfortably between:
Architecture → Data Modeling → Engineering → Databricks → Azure → Governance → AI Enablement → Production Operations. Selected candidate should be able to whiteboard the target architecture with stakeholders and then get into Databricks or Azure and help the team build, troubleshoot, optimize, and operationalize it.

• Architect and implement modern cloud data platforms and Lakehouse architectures using Azure and Databricks.
• Design scalable data lakes, Lakehouse, data warehouse, and analytical architectures supporting structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data.
• Build and optimize batch and streaming data pipelines using technologies such as Azure Databricks, Spark/PySpark, Azure Data Factory, Synapse pipelines, Event Hubs, and related services.
• Design and implement solutions using ADLS Gen2, Delta Lake, Databricks SQL, Unity Catalog, Azure Synapse Analytics, and Azure SQL.
• Design ingestion and integration patterns for data originating from databases, APIs, files, applications, cloud platforms, and legacy/on-premises systems.
• Define data modeling strategies including dimensional models, curated data products, transformation layers, and analytical datasets.
• Establish data governance, lineage, cataloging, access-control, data-quality, and security patterns, including Unity Catalog and Microsoft Purview where appropriate.
• Design secure data architectures using Microsoft Entra , managed identities, RBAC, Key Vault, private endpoints, and least-privilege principles.
• Work with AI/ML teams to prepare governed enterprise data for machine learning, Generative AI, RAG, analytics, and other AI-enabled use cases.
• Support integration between Databricks and Azure AI/ML capabilities, APIs, applications, reporting platforms, and enterprise systems.
• Evaluate performance, scalability, availability, security, and cost characteristics of proposed architectures.
• Develop reusable engineering patterns, reference architectures, notebooks, pipelines, IaC, technical standards, and deployment documentation.
• Troubleshoot complex data pipeline, integration, Spark, SQL, performance, security, and connectivity issues.
• Collaborate directly with customers, architects, application developers, cybersecurity teams, cloud engineers, and business stakeholders.
• Provide technical leadership and mentoring to data engineers while remaining actively involved in design and implementation.

• 7+ years of professional experience in data engineering, data architecture, analytics engineering, cloud engineering, or related disciplines.
• 4+ years of hands-on experience designing or implementing cloud-based data platforms.
• Strong hands-on expertise with Microsoft Azure data services.
• Demonstrated experience with Azure Databricks and…