* Master degree in IT combined with relevant IT professional experience of 17 years;
* At least 2 years of experience in Azure Synapse or Microsoft Fabric;
* Good knowledge of data lake & lakehouse design;
* Good knowledge of advanced capabilities of Microsoft Fabric (not just Power BI), and/or Azure Synapse;
* Good knowledge of relational database systems;
* Good knowledge of non-relational database systems, including document stores (ex: CosmosDb, MongoDb);
* Knowledge of Spark notebooks and infrastructure-as-Code and working with version control systems;
* Ability to cope with fast changing technologies used in Cloud based Data Engineering and AI;
* Certification of one of the following Azure Data Engineer Associate, Microsoft Fabric Data Engineer Associate,Azure Cloud Solution Architect;
* Knowledge of Generative AI Prompting and either RAG or other agentic memory techniques would be considered an asset;
* Knowledge of Azure Policy,AWS Infrastructure as Code and Machine Learning workflows and services would be considered an asset.
* Excellent command of the English language.