About the job
Forte Group is looking for a Data Engineer to join our team, building and evolving data warehouse and analytics solutions on the Microsoft data platform. The role is hands-on: designing data models, building ELT/ETL pipelines using the Medallion Architecture (Bronze / Silver / Gold), and delivering reliable, well-modeled data products on Microsoft Fabric and Azure SQL.
This is a client-facing engineering role on a long-term engagement. You will work directly with the client's technical leadership and U.S.-based stakeholders, so strong written and spoken English and the ability to drive your own work with minimal hand-holding are essential.
- Core Technology StackRequired — the work centers on the Microsoft data platform:Microsoft Fabric — OneLake, Lakehouse, Warehouse, Pipelines, Notebooks, Dataflows Gen2
- Azure SQL — schema design, performance tuning, indexing, partitioning, and security
- Medallion Architecture on Fabric — hands-on experience designing and building Bronze / Silver / Gold layers in Microsoft Fabric and Azure SQL
- T-SQL — advanced querying, stored procedures, window functions, performance optimization
- ELT / ETL pipeline development — ingestion, transformation, orchestration, and monitoring across the Bronze → Silver → Gold flow
- Data warehouse modeling — dimensional modeling (Kimball), slowly changing dimensions, conformed dimensions in the Gold layer
- Strongly preferred — commonly paired with Fabric in client environments:Azure Data Factory and/or Synapse Analytics
- Power BI and DAX for semantic models and reporting
- Python or PySpark for notebooks and transformations
- Git-based source control and CI/CD for data pipelines (Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions)
- Azure Data Lake Storage (Gen2) and Delta / Parquet formats