Senior Data Engineer – Power BI, Azure Synapse

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Burundi, +1 more country.

📋 Description

• Design and execute Infrastructure as Code using Terraform on both Azure and Cloudflare platforms.

• Manage PostgreSQL database activities and automate tasks related to database operations.

• Set up and configure message queues to facilitate data processing and service communication.

• Create and sustain CI/CD pipelines utilizing GitHub Actions.

• Ensure the security of infrastructure through Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) and adherence to compliance best practices.

• Develop and maintain solutions for monitoring and observability.

• Analyze and troubleshoot infrastructure-related challenges with minimal impact on service availability.

⛳️ Requirements

• Proficient in Power BI: developing semantic models, DAX, authoring report definitions in PBIP format with .pbix deployment, implementing incremental refresh, query folding, and diagnosing model performance issues (e.g., refresh/XMLA timeouts).

• Experienced with Azure Synapse: managing notebooks, pipelines, triggers, and workspaces; optimizing source-side queries.

• Strong SQL skills for data validation, transformation, and troubleshooting tasks.

• Competence in PowerShell scripting, including familiarity with common modules like Az and MicrosoftPowerBIMgmt.

• Understanding of Azure Functions/function apps and CI/CD deployment processes.

• Background in Azure DevOps work item tracking.

• Familiarity with Git/GitHub, including branching strategies and pull request management.

• Senior-level experience is preferred.

• Strong expertise across the specified technology stack.

• Capability to work independently with a high level of autonomy.

🏝️ Benefits

• Outstanding work environment recognized by Great Place To Work.

• A diverse and multicultural company culture.

• Flexible remote work options.