Sr. Staff Data Engineer
About The Position
Illumio is hiring a Sr. Staff Data Engineer for its IT team, based at its Sunnyvale, California headquarters, with four on-site days each week. The role owns and supports Fabric AI initiatives for organization-wide projects using the Fabric Data Warehouse, as well as enterprise data pipelines, Microsoft Fabric and Power BI solutions, and analytics operations. It adds engineering capacity during the Domo-to-Fabric Power BI migration and provides ongoing production support, data-quality management, report development, governance execution, and business enablement across Finance, Sales, Marketing, Customer Support, Customer Success, and Engineering. The engineer designs, builds, tests, maintains, and monitors Fabric Data Agents and Fabric data pipelines, transformations, semantic models, and Power BI solutions. The role also supports migrations of dashboards and datasets into governed Fabric and Power BI solutions; handles operational incidents and root-cause analysis; administers platform workspaces, permissions, deployments, and lifecycle controls; and partners with business teams on requirements, testing, documentation, training, and adoption. The position contributes to Analytics Center of Excellence standards and platform planning.
Requirements
- At least 6 years of experience in data engineering, analytics engineering, BI development, or a related enterprise data role.
- Strong SQL, Python, and PySpark skills.
- Hands-on experience with Microsoft Fabric and Power BI.
- Experience building and supporting ETL/ELT pipelines, transformations, validations, semantic models, and production reporting.
- Working knowledge of Fabric and Power BI security, permissions, workspace design, and deployment practices.
- Working knowledge of the Microsoft AI ecosystem and Fabric Data Agent architecture, design, and solutions.
- Strong troubleshooting, data-flow analysis, documentation, testing, and production-support skills.
- Ability to translate business requirements into scalable, governed, secure, and supportable analytics solutions.
- Ability to collaborate effectively across distributed teams.
Nice To Haves
- Experience with Azure data services, Power BI, the Microsoft AI ecosystem, DevOps, APIs, data governance, and AI-ready analytics platforms.
Responsibilities
- Own and support Fabric AI initiatives for organization-wide projects using the Fabric Data Warehouse.
- Design, build, test, maintain, and monitor Fabric Data Agents supporting business AI initiatives.
- Design, build, test, deploy, monitor, and support Fabric data pipelines, transformations, semantic models, and Power BI solutions.
- Triage pipeline failures, report defects, refresh issues, access problems, and data-quality incidents; perform root-cause analysis and maintain runbooks.
- Migrate business dashboards and datasets into governed Fabric and Power BI solutions.
- Build reports and validate measures and metrics across connected dashboards and source systems.
- Administer workspaces, permissions, deployment processes, service principals, monitoring, and lifecycle controls.
- Partner with business functions on requirements, data mapping, testing, release readiness, documentation, training, and adoption.
- Contribute to Analytics Center of Excellence standards, reusable patterns, governance, cataloging, and platform planning.
- Support enterprise data pipelines, Microsoft Fabric and Power BI solutions, analytics operations, and the Domo-to-Fabric Power BI migration.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
