Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Southern Company is a leading provider of innovative energy solutions to electric utilities and their industrial, institutional, and commercial customers. They are seeking a Data Engineer who will design, build, and operate reliable data pipelines on their Azure data platform to enable trusted analytics and self-service BI.
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and support end‑to‑end ELT pipelines (ingest → transform → publish) in Databricks/ADF
- Implement data quality checks (DLT expectations, unit tests) with alerting and remediation runbooks
- Build curated, analytics‑ready Delta tables using dimensional modeling for consumption by BI Developers
- Implement CDC and deletion‑flag patterns; manage schema drift and partitioning/Z‑Ordering strategies
- Operationalize jobs with monitoring, logging, alerting; participate in an on‑call rotation as needed
- Partner with the Data Architect to align designs with standards for governance, security, and cost efficiency
- Document pipelines, data contracts, and SLAs; continuously improve performance and reliability
Skills
- 2+ years of hands‑on data engineering (or comparable software engineering with significant data work)
- 2+ years building pipelines on Azure and Databricks (or equivalent cloud + Spark)
- Strong SQL (analytical queries, window functions), PySpark/Spark SQL, and data modeling fundamentals
- Bachelor's degree in MIS, Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience
- Proficiency with SQL and Python (PySpark), including performance tuning on large datasets
- Experience with Azure Databricks, Delta Lake, Delta Live Tables (DLT), Azure Data Factory (or Fabric Data Pipelines), ADLS Gen2, and Azure DevOps/Git for CI/CD
- Working knowledge of Unity Catalog and/or Microsoft Purview for governance, lineage, and security
- Familiarity with data ingestion patterns (files, APIs, JDBC), schema evolution, CDC, and deletion detection patterns
- Understanding of dimensional modeling to produce analytics‑ready datasets for Power BI
- Exposure to orchestration/monitoring, cost optimization, alerting, and runbook‑driven operations
- Data pipeline design (batch & streaming), DLT expectations for data quality, and robust error handling
- Source control, branching strategies, and CI/CD for data assets (notebooks, jobs, workflows)
- Practical understanding of privacy, security, and RBAC in cloud data platforms
- Excellent communication, documentation, and cross‑functional collaboration skills
- Analytical mindset; bias toward automation and measurable reliability
- Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States and should not require now, or in the future, sponsorship for employment visa sponsorship
Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision and life insurance coverage
- Competitive pay and a matching 401 (k) plan
- Vacation, Company Holidays, Paid Time Off (PTO- personal and sick days)
- Flexible spending accounts/Health savings account
- Wellness Incentive Programs
- Employee Referral Program
- Tuition Reimbursement
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