Assistant Manager - Azure Data Engineering

Azure Data Engineer - AM - MFT KGS CH

Azure Data Engineering is responsible for leading the design, delivery, and operational excellence of enterprise-scale data platforms on Microsoft Azure. This role combines hands-on technical leadership, team management, and stakeholder engagement, with a strong focus on enabling AI and Generative AI (GenAI) initiatives through high-quality, secure, and reliable data pipelines.

The Assistant Manager oversees data engineering teams, defines technical standards, and ensures that data platforms effectively support LLM training, embeddings, inference pipelines, and AI-enabled applications, while meeting enterprise security, governance, and performance expectations.

Interact with multiple stakeholders and manage the end-to-end data project delivery from project requirements, solutioning and execution and hand off to operations.

• Own the architecture, design, and delivery of scalable data storage and processing solutions using Azure Data Factory, Azure Data Lake Storage, Azure Synapse Analytics, and Azure Databricks.

• Define and enforce data engineering standards, best practices, and design patterns across teams.

• Provide technical leadership and oversight for complex ETL/ELT pipelines.

 

• Lead data engineering support for AI and GenAI workloads, including preparation and management of training datasets, embeddings, and inference pipelines.

• Partner with data scientists, AI engineers, and solution architects to meet AI performance and governance requirements.

 

• Manage, mentor, and grow a team of Azure Data Engineers.

• Plan capacity, allocate work, and ensure timely delivery of initiatives.

• Drive adherence to Agile delivery practices.

 

• Drive optimization of storage, compute, and pipelines for performance and cost efficiency.

• Review and approve designs with long-term sustainability in mind.

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.

• Experience with Azure cloud services, specifically data storage and data processing solutions.

• Strong knowledge of data warehousing and ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) concepts.

• Hands‑on experience with SQL, Python and PySpark.

• Understanding of GenAI and LLM data concepts, including training data, embeddings, and inference pipelines.

• Strong understanding of data security and privacy best practice.

• Experience with monitoring and troubleshooting data pipelines.

• Strong problem‑solving and analytical skills.

• Effective communication skills to collaborate with cross‑functional teams.

• Experience with data governance is a plus.

• Proven experience leading and mentoring teams.

• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.

 

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Experience Level

Senior Level