Data Engineer
Summary
Zensar is hiring a Data Engineer in India to build finance-domain (capital & tax) data products on the Microsoft data stack: SQL Server/T-SQL, Azure Data Factory, Databricks, and Microsoft Fabric lakehouse using PySpark and Delta Lake. Work spans CDC ingestion, Power BI semantic models, governance, and mentoring junior engineers.
- Build and maintain bronze, silver, and gold lakehouse layers in Microsoft Fabric and Databricks.
- Develop ingestion and transformation pipelines using notebooks and PySpark.
- Implement incremental loading and change data capture (CDC) from on‑prem SQL to Fabric/Databricks.
- Optimize Delta tables for performance and cost efficiency.
- Create and sustain Azure Data Factory pipelines and Azure Analysis Services cubes.
- Own data products as managed assets: version control, testing, monitoring, and continuous improvement.
- Ensure datasets comply with defined data contracts, governance, and platform standards.
- Collaborate with business stakeholders, analysts, and the central Data Platform team.
- Design and optimize semantic models for enterprise analytics platforms such as Power BI.
- Mentor junior engineers and champion architectural standards and modern technologies.
- 6+ years of hands‑on data engineering experience in SQL‑heavy or enterprise data environments.
- Deep expertise in Microsoft SQL Server and advanced T‑SQL development, including query optimization.
- Practical experience with Microsoft Fabric, Lakehouse architecture, and Delta Lake.
- Proficiency in Spark (PySpark preferred) and Python notebooks for distributed data transformation.
- Experience with Azure Data Factory, Databricks, Azure Analysis Services, ADLS Gen2, and Purview.
- Strong knowledge of dimensional modeling (Kimball) and semantic model design for Power BI.
- Proven ability to implement incremental loading and CDC patterns in hybrid environments.
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, testing frameworks, monitoring, and data governance principles.
- Background in financial services, banking, or capital markets.
- Microsoft certifications (Azure Data Engineer, Fabric) and excellent facilitation, presentation, and influencing skills.