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Senior Synapse Engineer (Remote)

Ness Digital Engineering

Role overview

Qualifications

  • 5+ years in data engineering
  • 3+ years in Azure Synapse
  • Strong T‑SQL, ETL/ELT pipeline development
  • Experience migrating Alteryx, SSIS, Databricks, or equivalent ETL systems

Responsibilities

  • Build Synapse pipelines, SQL transformations, datasets, and linked services
  • Tune performance of dedicated SQL pools (partitioning, indexing, caching)
  • Implement CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps or GitHub
  • Monitor Synapse environments, performance, costs, and autoscaling

Key facts

  • Remote from: Canada
  • Full time
  • Senior (5-10 years)
  • English

Hard skills

Other skills

  • Collaboration
  • Troubleshooting (Problem Solving)

About the company

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Ness Digital Engineering

IT Services & IT Consulting

Ness Digital Engineering, acquired by global investment firm KKR in 2022, is a full-lifecycle digital engineering firm offering digital advisory through scaled engineering services. Headquartered in New York, Ness serves our customers across 11 innovation hubs in the US, Eastern Europe, and India. Combining our core competence in engineering with the latest in digital strategy and technology, we seamlessly manage Digital Transformation journeys from strategy through execution to help businesses thrive in the digital economy. For more information, visit www.ness.com.

Company details

Company typeLarge
IndustryIT Services & IT Consulting
Company size1001 - 5000

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Job description

Job Description / Role SummaryThe Senior Synapse Engineer (Remote) builds, optimizes, and maintains the Azure Synapse environment used to replace Alteryx workflows. The role implements pipelines, SQL transformations, orchestration, and security. They work closely with the onsite Data Modeler and Conversion Analyst to ensure end‑to‑end production-quality execution of migrated workloads.Key Responsibilities
  • Build Synapse pipelines, SQL transformations, datasets, and linked services.
  • Transformation exp in Synapse SQL, PySpark, or Data Flows.
  • Synapse notebooks/pipelines, SQL, Pyspark, ADO for CI/CD, ESP scheduling 
  • Tune performance of dedicated SQL pools (partitioning, indexing, caching).
  • Implement CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps or GitHub.
  • Configure and manage data security, RLS, access roles, and auditing.
  • Optimize ADLS Gen2 folder structures, file formats, and Delta/Parquet usage.
  • Collaborate with the Data Modeller to ensure accurate implementation of models.
  • Monitor Synapse environments, performance, costs, and autoscaling.
  • Troubleshoot issues across ingestion, transformation, orchestration phases.
  • Provide architectural guidance and platform best practices.
Required Experience
  • 5+ years in data engineering with 3+ years in Azure Synapse.
  • Strong T‑SQL, ETL/ELT pipeline development, and workload optimization.
  • Experience migrating Alteryx, SSIS, Databricks, or equivalent ETL systems.
  • Knowledge of Delta Lake, Parquet, partitioning, schema evolution.
  • CI/CD experience in Azure DevOps, Git, environment promotion.
Preferred Skills
  • Experience with retail or loyalty analytics workloads.
  • Familiarity with Azure Purview or similar governance solutions.

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