Azure Data Engineer- Lead

Description: Please note: No agencies or staffing firms, please. We are not accepting unsolicited candidate submissions and request that agencies do not contact our employees or representatives regarding recruiting services for this role.

• Engagement Type: Contract—C2C or W-2 hourly/temporary
• Expected Commitment: 40 hours per week, Monday–Friday
• Work Schedule: Must work East Coast hours
• Initial Term: Three months, with potential to extend
• 100% Remote: Ideal candidate resides in NH, MA, RI, Spyglass MTG is seeking experienced Lead Data Engineers who are “thinkers” and can mentorjunior developers while extending an existing codebase and building team proficiency inMicrosoft Fabric and Pyspark Python including class development and structured streaming. Why Spyglass MTG?
• Exclusive focus on Microsoft technologies for more than 12 years
• 90% of our business comes from repeat customers
• 80% of our new business comes through Microsoft
• Five Microsoft Solutions Partner badges and 10 Advanced Specializations
• Member of Microsoft’s Partner Advisory Council for Data and AI
• Microsoft Fabric Voice member

Description: As a Lead Azure Data Engineer, you will work as part of our Azure Data and Analytics practice by leading the design, development, and delivery of modern cloud data solutions for our clients. We are looking for an experienced Data Engineer who can provide technical leadership across the full data engineering lifecycle, including collecting, aggregating, storing, reconciling, governing, and operationalizing data in Azure in support of client business decisions. You will lead the design and implementation of scalable data pipelines, data streams, data models, and data service APIs on Azure that power data-driven portals, analytics platforms, reporting solutions, and insight tools. You will be accountable for solution quality, technical direction, delivery execution, and mentoring other data engineers while partnering with client stakeholders to translate business needs into reliable, secure, and maintainable data solutions. You will play a lead role in analyzing business, functional, and technical issues and delivering innovative Analytics solutions on Azure at enterprise data scale. Candidate Expectations:· Lead the design, development, testing, deployment, and support of scalable Azure data engineering solutions.· Own technical approaches for data transformation, data modeling, metadata management, dependency management, workload orchestration, and production-quality data pipelines.· Provide hands-on engineering leadership using SQL, Python, Scala, C#, R, or related languages as appropriate for client solutions.· Guide architecture and delivery decisions across Azure Data Factory, Azure Synapse, Azure Data Lake, Azure SQL, Databricks, streaming, APIs, Azure Functions, and related services.· Partner with business and technical stakeholders to define requirements, assess tradeoffs, and translate business needs into durable data platform designs.· Lead requirements analysis, solution design, prototyping, estimation, implementation planning, and technical documentation.· Establish and promote engineering standards for code quality, testing, CI/CD, version control, monitoring, security, performance, and maintainability.· Mentor and support junior and mid-level engineers, review solution designs and code, and help raise the overall technical capability of delivery teams.· Serve as a trusted technical advisor to clients and project teams, proactively identifying risks, dependencies, delivery issues, and improvement opportunities.