Senior Data Engineer

1 Day ago • 8 Years + • Data Analyst • Undisclosed

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Job Description

The Senior Data Engineer will be part of the Windows India Data team, responsible for building and delivering business intelligence through data for experiences running on 1.5 billion Windows devices. This role involves working with various teams (Engineering, Program Management, Design) to understand business questions, set KPIs, and create data pipelines to derive insights and drive experiments. Responsibilities include evaluating ROI on new ideas, assessing if investments meet customer promises, designing and assessing experiments, measuring growth, and identifying opportunities. The ideal candidate will have strong data engineering skills in C#, C++, Java, or SQL, experience with distributed data processing (MapReduce, Spark), and familiarity with cloud technologies like Azure Synapse and Data Factory.
Must have:
  • 8+ years data engineering experience
  • C#, C++, Java, or SQL proficiency
  • Distributed data processing (MapReduce, Spark)
  • Data pipeline design and implementation
  • Cross-team collaboration
Good to have:
  • Azure cloud technologies (Synapse, Data Factory)
  • Data visualization tools (Power BI)
  • Experience with Hadoop, YARN, Apache Spark
  • Scala, Python, or C# for Big Data ETL
Perks:
  • Industry leading healthcare
  • Educational resources
  • Discounts on products and services
  • Savings and investments
  • Maternity and paternity leave
  • Generous time away
  • Giving programs
  • Networking opportunities

Overview

Do you have a relentless passion for data engineering and analytics and a desire to drive future products via key data insights? Does the thought of being able to influence the product in each stage of the lifecycle through data engineering, platforms & insights it powers, excite you?  Do you love designing, measuring, understanding, and visualizing based on real-world user data to come up with insights that drive experiments and recommendations to help move business metrics?  If so, we want to talk to you!  

We are the Windows India Data team, part of the Windows and Web Experiences (WWE) engineering organization. Our goal is to use advanced data engineering, analytics & data science to inform decision making, drive product performance and maximize business impact through the power of ML/AI. In short, we thrive on data to solve high impact business problems for Windows! We are looking for a strong Data Engineer who can help us power and foster a data-driven culture here in Windows!   

  

We're looking for an enthusiastic and expert Software & Data Engineers to help us build and deliver business Intelligence through data for experiences running on 1.5 billion Windows devices. Your responsibilities will include working closely with a variety of teams such as Engineering, Program Management, Design and application partners to understand the key business questions for customer-facing scenarios, to set up the key performance indicators, and setup data pipelines to identify insights and experiment ideas that moves our business metrics.  We will be looking to you to help evaluate the return of investments on new ideas, to assess if investments are meeting customer and business promises, to design and assess experiments, to measure growth and to derive insights that help identify next wave of opportunities and problems to be solved. 

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

  • 8+ years of experience in data engineering with proven coding and debugging skills in C#, C++, Java, or SQL 
  • Ability to work and communicate effectively across disciplines and teams 
  • Familiarity with distributed data processing and analysis, such as Map-Reduce or Apache Spark. 
  • BS or MS degree in Computer Science or Engineering OR equivalent years of work experience.

 

Preferred Qualifications: 

  • Understanding and experience with data cloud computing technologies such as – Azure Synapse, Azure Data Factory, SQL, Azure Data Explorer, Power BI, PowerApps, Hadoop, YARN, Apache Spark 
  • Excellent analytical skills with systematic and structured approach to software design 

 

 

 

Responsibilities

  • Enable the Windows, Developers, and Experiences team to do more with data across all aspects of the development lifecycle. 
  • Contribute to a data-driven culture as well as a culture of experimentation across the organization. 
  • Provide new and improve upon existing data platform offerings with a fundamental understanding of the end-to-end scenarios. 
  • Collaborate with partner teams and customers to scope and deliver projects. 
  • Authoring and design of Big Data ETL pipelines in SCOPE, Scala, SQL, Python, or C#  
  • Data extraction across a wide variety of data sources  
  • Data cleaning, preprocessing, and transformation for further analysis by data analysts  
  • Data Validation framework from source to endpoints ensuring data quality and integrity.
Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Microsoft and the country where you work.
Industry leading healthcare
Educational resources
Discounts on products and services
Savings and investments
Maternity and paternity leave
Generous time away
Giving programs
Opportunities to network and connect
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