Job Description – Senior Data Engineer Lead / Architect (Microsoft Fabric & Ontologies)
Experience: 11+ Years
Location: Corona CA
Candidate should be flexible to travel to Corona, CA whenever required, if you get someone ready to relocate that would be good or local to Corona CA or else near by region who can travel whenever required.
Role Overview
We are seeking senior-level professionals with strong hands-on experience in Microsoft Fabric, Python, and Semantic Data Modeling/Ontologies. The ideal candidate will have proven expertise in designing scalable data platforms, building semantic layers, and enabling business insights through modern data engineering practices.

Key Responsibilities
• Design, develop, and optimize data solutions using Microsoft Fabric.
• Build and manage data pipelines, lakehouses, warehouses, and analytics workloads.
• Develop semantic models, ontologies, and knowledge representations to support business use cases.
• Implement data engineering solutions using Python and modern data frameworks.
• Collaborate with business and technical stakeholders to translate requirements into scalable data architectures.
• Ensure data quality, governance, metadata management, and semantic consistency across data assets.
• Support advanced analytics, AI/ML, and enterprise data initiatives.

Required Skills
• 10+ years of experience in Data Engineering and Analytics.
• Strong hands-on expertise in Microsoft Fabric (Data Factory, Lakehouse, Warehouse, Power BI, OneLake).
• Experience with IQ/Ontologies, Semantic Modeling, Knowledge Graphs, or related semantic technologies.
• Advanced Python programming skills for data processing and automation.
• Strong understanding of data architecture, ETL/ELT, data modeling, and cloud-native analytics platforms.
• Experience working directly with business stakeholders and enterprise-scale data ecosystems.
• Exposure to AI/GenAI-enabled data platforms.

Preferred Qualifications
• Experience with knowledge graphs, metadata management, and semantic search solutions.
• Microsoft Fabric and Azure certifications preferred.

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