Data Engineer (Azure)

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You are a Data Engineer passionate about building scalable, production-grade data ecosystems in Azure. You thrive when transforming complex, fragmented data into reliable analytical assets that drive meaningful business decisions. You operate with autonomy, bring strong architectural foundations, and champion high-quality engineering practices across data modeling, pipelines, orchestration, and performance optimization.

You love simplifying complexity — whether converting legacy SQL logic into distributed PySpark jobs, designing canonical data layers, or ensuring data integrity and governance across systems. Collaboration, clarity, and business impact fuel your work.

You bring to Applaudo the following competencies :

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Data Engineering, Software Engineering, or related field — or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of experience designing, building, and maintaining production data pipelines at scale.
• Expert-level SQL : window functions, query performance, partitioning, execution plan tuning.
• Strong knowledge of data modeling : star / snowflake, facts & dimensions, SCDs, curated / canonical layers.
• Advanced hands-on experience with Python for Data Engineering, including PySpark transformations at scale.
• Strong experience working with Azure data services :
• Experience building incremental ETL / ELT pipelines : dependencies, CDC, retries, failure handling.
• Hands‑on experience optimizing big data workloads : partitioning strategies, Delta Lake performance (Z‑order, OPTIMIZE, VACUUM).
• Solid experience integrating REST APIs and handling schema drift & pagination.
• Proficiency with Git workflows and CI / CD for data codebases.
• Strong communication, collaboration, and autonomy in Agile environments.
• (Nice to have) : Experience with Snowflake, PostgreSQL, cost optimization in cloud workloads.

You will be accountable for the following responsibilities :

Qualifications

Strong proficiency in Azure services.

Additional Information

Here at Applaudo Studios values as trust, communication, respect, excellence and team work are our keys to success. We know we are working with the best and thus treat each other with respect and admiration without asking.

Submit your application today, and don't miss this opportunity to join the Best Digital team in the Region!

We truly appreciate all the hard and outstanding work our team makes every day at Applaudo Studios, and that's why the perks that we offer, are deeply thought and designed as a way to thank them for their commitment and excellence.

Some of our perks and benefits :

Seniority level

Mid‑Senior level

Employment type

Full‑time

Job function

Information Technology

Industries

IT Services and IT Consulting

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