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You will partner with delivery teams, business representatives, and data stewards to build governed data pipelines, analytics-ready models, and reusable automation that improves consistency across projects and teams.\nWhat you will do:\nTechnical Responsibilities:\nBuild and maintain ingestion frameworks using Azure Data Factory, Databricks, and Spark.\nImplement Bronze-to-Silver transformations with data quality checks, schema validation, and data contract rules.\nOptimize batch and streaming pipelines for performance and cost.\nOwn CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps and automate project onboarding, including repositories, pipelines, policies, and templates.\nMaintain Infrastructure as Code and automation using Terraform, PowerShell, and Python; troubleshoot pipeline failures and permission issues.\nDesign curated Gold-layer data models, including star and snowflake schemas, fact tables, dimensions, surrogate keys, and slowly changing dimensions.\nAlign reusable models, KPI definitions, and business logic with the enterprise semantic layer in Power BI, Microsoft Fabric, and downstream tools.\nManage model changes through impact analysis, backward compatibility, regression support, and documented column derivation logic.\nImplement Unity Catalog standards, naming conventions, metadata policies, data quality frameworks, and role- and attribute-based access controls.\nTranslate high-level architecture into low-level designs, reusable templates, and engineering playbooks.\nLeadership & People Management Responsibilities:\nGuide delivery teams through onboarding, debugging, and design reviews.\nCreate reusable assets and hands-on guidance that build engineering capability and reduce repeat questions.\nKnowledge and Capabilities:\nAssess complex data systems, identify patterns, and recommend practical solutions.\nExplain technical concepts clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders.\nPartner with business representatives and data stewards to define requirements, validate metrics and edge cases, and guide solution decisions.\nIdentify opportunities for process optimization, redesign, and new or updated policies.\nWhat You Need:\nRequired Qualifications\nBachelor's degree from an accredited university in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, Business, or an equivalent field of study.\nMinimum 8 years of experience in data engineering, data warehousing, and data and analytics platforms, including recent hands-on delivery on Azure and Databricks Lakehouse platforms.\nExperience with Azure Data Factory, Azure Data Lake Storage, Azure SQL, Databricks Delta Live Tables, Delta Lake, Spark, Workflows, and Unity Catalog.\nAdvanced experience with PySpark or Python and SQL, including batch and streaming pipeline design.\nExperience with Azure DevOps pipelines, repositories, and policies; PowerShell automation; CI/CD; and Infrastructure as Code.\nExperience with schema enforcement, data contracts, data quality frameworks, metadata-driven design, monitoring, debugging, and performance tuning.\nPreferred Qualifications\nMaster's degree in Management Information Systems, Business Administration, or a related discipline, or an Azure analytics certification.\nExperience with Microsoft Fabric\nExperience within the medical device or another regulated industry.\nUnited States of America Pay Ranges:\nUSN: $135,600 - $225,900 USD Annual\nUS10: $149,200 - $248,500 USD Annuall\nUS20: $162,700 - $271,100 USD Annual\nView the U.S. work location and transparency guide to find the pay range for your location.\nTravel Percentage: 20%Stryker Corporation is an equal opportunity employer. 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