Lead Azure Data Engineer
Caesars Entertainment is the world's most geographically diversified casino-entertainment in the industry. Focusing on building loyalty and value with its guests and employees through a unique combination of great service, excellent products, and technological leadership.
Caesars has an exciting opportunity as a Lead Azure Data Engineer in our Data Engineering and BI division, located in Las Vegas, Nevada. Under general supervision, this position focuses on ongoing development and support of enterprise solutions for data warehousing, enterprise analytics, and integrations across our enterprise transaction systems and support the ongoing buildout of our Enterprise data management and analytics environment on Microsoft's Azure platform.
Job Functions :
- Responsible for working with the existing team to design, code, and implement new functionality, support existing functionality, and support BI Developer and AI Engineer data needs on our Microsoft technology stack
- Should be comfortable working within a core team, occasionally interfacing with other technical stakeholders both internally and externally.
- Primary focus of this role is on building a robust, sustainable enterprise data environment.
- Recreating existing application logic and functionality in the Azure Data Lake, Data Factory, SQL Database, and SQL data-warehouse environment.
- Working with external partners to bring data into the firm's environment.
- Designing and maintaining database schemas.
- Working with the Data Architect to translate functional specifications into technical specifications.
- Work with external resources on large projects.
- Work with other internal technical personnel to troubleshoot issues and propose solutions.
- Support compliance with data stewardship standards and data security procedures.
- Apply proven communication and problem-solving skills to resolve support issues as they arise.
Qualifications : Required :
Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, management information systems, or related similar disciplines, or equivalent combination of education and experienceA minimum of three (3) years of experience in an Azure Data Engineer role.In-depth understanding of data management (e.g. permissions, security, and monitoring)Strong Transact-SQL skillsExperience with SQL Database and SQL DatawarehouseExperience with Microsoft Azure Data Lake, Data Factory, and SQL Database productsExcellent analytical and organization skillsEffective working in a team as well as working independentlyStrong written and verbal communication skillsPreferred :
Experience with scripting languages such as R-Studio and PythonExpertise in database development projects and ETL processesExperience in data virtualization tools like DenodoExperience with Big Data technologies like Hadoop, SparkExperience in an agile SDLC environmentExperience planning and implementing QA and testingExposure to Master Data Management and Data Governance