Data Platform Engineer

• Design and develop data pipelines and models using Microsoft Fabric and OneLake, with a strong focus on interoperability and performance using columnar formats like Parquet and efficient serialization formats like Protobuf.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams (Product Owners, Azure Solution Architects, Data & Software Engineers) to drive a Fabric-native data platform that integrates seamlessly with Power BI.

• Enable modern data architecture patterns, including Lakehouse, near real-time streaming, schema evolution, and efficient serialization in messaging and APIs.

• Maintain and automate scalable data pipelines, emphasizing performance, metadata consistency, and optimal use of storage formats such as Parquet within the Microsoft ecosystem.

• Champion DevOps practices, implementing CI/CD pipelines (via Azure DevOps or GitLab Pipelines) and Infrastructure-as-Code for consistent, secure deployment of Fabric-based solutions.

• Monitor and optimize platform performance using observability tools, ensuring health, reliability, and cost-efficiency.

• Drive cloud migration and modernization efforts, guiding the transition to Microsoft Azure and Fabric, ensuring format and schema
  
  
  

The pay range that the employer in good faith reasonably expects to pay for this position is $43.92/hour - $68.62/hour. Our benefits include medical, dental, vision and retirement benefits. Applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis.

Tundra Technical Solutions is among North America’s leading providers of Staffing and Consulting Services. Our success and our clients’ success are built on a foundation of service excellence. We are an equal opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic. Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with applicable law, including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act. Unincorporated LA County workers: we reasonably believe that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship with the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment: client provided property, including hardware (both of which may include data) entrusted to you from theft, loss or damage; return all portable client computer hardware in your possession (including the data contained therein) upon completion of the assignment, and; maintain the confidentiality of client proprietary, confidential, or non-public information. In addition, job duties require access to secure and protected client information technology systems and related data security obligations.