Entry Level Microsoft Data Engineer Jobs (NOW HIRING)

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Where We Need You

Protivitiis looking for aTechnology ConsultingSenior Consultant to join our growingEnterprise Data & Analyticsteam.

What You Can Expect

As a Senior Consultant, you will be a mentor, trainer, and coach to Interns and Consultants as youfacilitatethe successful completion of project work plans.You'llidentifyareas of risk and opportunities to increase efficiency.You'llstrengthen relationships and deepen your abilities to communicate, gain trust, and network with client personnel and professional associates. At the direction ofManagers, you may accept responsibility for decision-making in areas including establishing project scope and work plans, project staffing, preparation of deliverables, and application of methodologies.

What Will Help You Be Successful

• You enjoy designing and delivering modern data engineering solutions with Microsoft Fabric and Azure Databricks.

• You are motivated to learn and interested in all things related tobusiness intelligence reporting and data engineering, including the latest trends and developments.

• You are passionate about building relationships with clients and providing clients with exceptional experiences.

• You have an inherent interest in project management and team leadership.

• You contribute to a positive team culture that fosters open communication among all engagement team members.

• You create development opportunities for others and ways for your team to improve our clients and communities.

• You haveinterestin working with a diverse portfolio of clients acrossmultiple industries.

Do Your Talents Include the Following?

You have experience with many and familiarity with most of the followingConcepts and Methodologies:

• Ability toarticulate the value ofMicrosoft Fabric andBusiness Intelligence solutionsto customers and colleagues, and proventrack recordofdata storytellingto guide decision-making.

• Participationin the process of formulating, communicating, and executingdata strategiesthat align with organizational goals andobjectivesleveragingMicrosoft technologies.

• Experience inassessingexisting data solutions, whether on-premises or in the cloud, to inform improvement initiatives.

• Basic skills inarchitectingfuture state data solutions on Azure and Microsoft Fabric based on the Well-Architected Framework.

• Some experience inplanning and migratingdata solutions from various sources, including on-premises, other cloud platforms, or legacy systems, toMicrosoft Cloud 1stSolutions.

• ProficiencywithimplementingETL processes and databases onMicrosoft Technologies.

• Experienceoptimizingexisting data implementations, including pipelines, queries, and data models, to enhance performance and delivery of value to the business.

• Knowledge ofadministeringandmaintainingdata solutions to ensure stability, security, scalability, and affordability.

• Proficiencyindata engineering, including data movement, data integration, transformation, and cleansing.

• Ability to contribute to designing and managingdata warehousingsolutions thatoptimizedata storage and retrieval.

• Skills indata modeling, including entity-relationship diagrams, dimensional modeling, and semantic modeling.

• Track recordof creating engaging datavisualizationsand interactive dashboards.

• Ability to performdata analytics, including exploratory data analysis andleveragingdata for actionable insights.

• Some experience with implementingdata governanceframeworks and policies, including an understanding of managing data assets.

• Understanding ofdatasecuritypractices, including encryption and access control.

• Some knowledge ofnetworkingas it applies to configuring Azure data solutions.

• Understanding ofDevOpsorDataOpsconcepts and experience with the deployment of Azure data solutions.

• Proficiencyin SQL and bonus for familiarity with any of the programming languagesutilizedwithin the Microsoft Data Platform stack, such as Python,Spark,C#, Java, Scala, R, DAX, MDX, or M.

• Advanced certification is preferred (see Recommended Qualifications).

• Bonus: Experience with Data Science and/or Machine Learning.

Competency with at least 3 and exposure to most of these technologies:

• Microsoft Fabric

• Azure Storage

• Azure Databricks (PySpark,SparkSQL, etc.)

• Power BI

• Git-based version control and deployments for Azure Data Solutions

• Microsoft Purview

• Bonus: Azure AI tooling

Your Educational and Professional Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree inarelevant discipline (e.g.,MIS, CIS, Analytics)

• 2+ years working inprofessional services or related industry.

• Proficiencyin Microsoft Office suite applications with specific emphasis on Word,Exceland PowerPoint. Secondary emphasis on Visio and Access.

• Professionalcertificationpreferred:Microsoft Certified: Fabric Analytics Engineering Associate (highly desired),Microsoft Certified: Fabric Data Engineer Associate,Microsoft Certified: Azure Developer Associate,Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate,Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert