Data Engineer
Fort Lauderdale, FL – Onsite
Overview
TalentoHC has partnered with a global consumer products organization looking for a Data Solutions Engineer who is responsible for designing, building, and optimizing scalable data architecture, backend services, and system integrations that support enterprise reporting and automation initiatives. This is a senior individual contributor role operating independently in production environments. While Power BI proficiency is required, this role is defined by strong data architecture, backend engineering, and systems thinking — not dashboard development.
Responsibilities
- Design and optimize scalable SQL-based data architecture
- Build and maintain ETL pipelines and staging layers
- Develop and consume REST APIs for system integrations
- Build lightweight backend services (C# / .NET preferred)
- Improve system performance through indexing, tuning, and execution plan analysis
- Replace manual workflows with automated backend processes
- Design reusable data services spanning ERP, WMS, and external vendor systems
- Build and optimize Power BI semantic models with strong DAX logic
- Maintain clean separation between data modeling and visualization layers
Requirements
- 7+ years of professional experience in data development, backend development, or data engineering
- 5+ years of advanced SQL Server development
- 3+ years of hands-on API and system integration work
- 3+ years building BI semantic models (Power BI or comparable platforms)
- Demonstrated ability to operate independently in production environments
Additional Technical Requirements
- Strong T-SQL skills: stored procedures, CTEs, window functions, indexing strategies
- Performance tuning and execution plan analysis
- Experience designing star schema and hybrid data models
- ETL and staging layer design
- Comfortable working with medium-to-large datasets (10M+ rows)
- Understanding of normalization vs. denormalization trade-offs
- Experience consuming REST APIs (JSON-based)
- Backend development experience (C# / .NET preferred)
- Familiarity with OAuth, token-based authentication, and API key management
- Error logging, retry logic, and resilient integration design
- Ability to design lightweight integration services
- Understanding of asynchronous processing concepts
- Experience replacing manual processes with automated workflows
- Ability to design reusable backend data services
- Understanding of cross-system dependencies (ERP, WMS, external vendors)
- Strong architectural thinking and structured problem-solving
- Advanced DAX knowledge: row vs. filter context, CALCULATE, SUMX, DATEADD, time intelligence functions
- Experience building reusable, well-structured semantic models
- Power BI performance optimization techniques
- Understanding of incremental refresh and dataset sizing
- Clear ability to separate data modeling from visualization design
- Power BI is required; emphasis is on modeling and DAX, not visual design
Preferred Certifications
- Microsoft Certified: Power BI Data Analyst Associate (PL-300)
- Microsoft Certified: Azure Data Engineer Associate (DP-203)
- Microsoft Certified: Azure Developer Associate (AZ-204)
- SQL Server certifications (e.g., legacy MCSA SQL track)
- API or backend-related certifications
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