Data Engineer

Job Description:

Position Title: AI Data Engineer 3

Top IT Firm

Type: Contract on W2

Location: Hybrid: Redmond; 3days per week

Duration: 18months

NO C2C OR 1099

Typical Day in the Role

• Purpose of the Team: The purpose of this team is to provide telemetry reporting, analytics, automation, and AI-driven insights that improve visibility into service health, availability, and operational performance through dashboards, reporting solutions, and data engineering capabilities.

• Key projects: This role will contribute to telemetry and service health initiatives by developing reporting, analytics, and automation solutions. Responsibilities include building Power BI reports and Grafana dashboards, creating Kusto-based analytics, supporting telemetry monitoring, and improving data-driven insights related to availability and operational health.

Candidate Requirements

• Disqualifiers: Candidates with limited or no experience in reporting and analytics, automation, AI-assisted solutions, data engineering, Power BI, Grafana, or Kusto-based data analysis will not be eligible for the role.

• Best vs. Average: The ideal resume will contain hands-on experience with telemetry and analytics platforms, including Power BI, Grafana, SQL/Kusto, Python, PowerShell, or C#, along with expertise in data engineering, ETL/data pipelines, automation, and AI-assisted reporting solutions. Experience supporting telemetry health, availability monitoring, operational dashboards, and enterprise-scale reporting environments is highly preferred.

Hard Skills Assessments

• Expected Dates that Hard Skills Assessments will be scheduled: ASAP

• Hard Skills Assessment Process: The assessment process will include 1 round with sponsor.

• Required Candidate Preparation:

The main function of an AI Data Engineer is to design, develop, enhance, validate, maintain, and support telemetry reporting, data solutions, automation, and AI-assisted solutions. The role develops reports, dashboards, data models, automation, reporting & analytics agent components, and supporting data solutions to improve telemetry coverage, telemetry availability, clean telemetry, and telemetry data quality.

Explain a typical day in the role.:

Design, develop, and maintain telemetry reporting, analytics, automation, and AI-assisted solutions. Build Power BI reports and Grafana dashboards, develop Kusto queries and data models, integrate enterprise data sources, develop automation and reporting & analytics agent components, validate production solutions, and troubleshoot production issues.

What is the ideal background of a candidate for this role?:

Strong experience developing reporting, analytics, automation, and data solutions using Power BI, Grafana, SQL, Kusto or similar analytics platforms, Python, PowerShell or C#, data modeling, ETL/data pipelines, Azure DevOps, and AI-assisted reporting & analytics agent components. Experience with telemetry, monitoring, or operational systems is preferred.

**Top 3 Must-Have HARD Skills**

**1. Reporting & Analytics** — **5+ years**

* Power BI

* Data Modeling

* DAX

* Grafana or similar reporting platforms

* HTML/Web-based reports

**2. Automation, AI & Agentic Solutions** — **3+ years**

* Python

* C#

* PowerShell

* AI-assisted engineering

* Agentic platforms / Copilot agents

* Automated report generation

**3. Data Engineering** — **5+ years**

* SQL

* ETL / data pipelines

* Azure Data Explorer (Kusto) or similar cloud analytics platforms

Job Responsibilities

- Design, develop, and maintain telemetry reporting, data solutions, automation, and AI-assisted solutions.

- Design, develop, and enhance Power BI reports, Grafana dashboards, semantic models, and analytics solutions to deliver actionable business insights.

- Develop and optimize Azure Data Explorer (Kusto/ADX) queries, functions, data models, scheduled tables, materialized tables, snapshot tables, and supporting datasets.

- Integrate enterprise data sources and develop supporting SQL queries, ETL processes, and data pipelines required for analytics and reporting solutions.

- Develop automation solutions using Python, PowerShell, C#, or similar scripting/programming languages to automate operational tasks and support business requirements.

- Develop AI-enabled reporting and analytics agent components, including Copilot Agents, Agency CLI skills, prompt assets, and supporting knowledge files.

- Validate data quality, business logic, report accuracy, dashboards, and scheduled refreshes to ensure reliable production solutions.

- Monitor, troubleshoot, and resolve data pipeline, query, reporting, and production issues to maintain solution reliability and performance.

- Create and maintain technical documentation, reusable components, and engineering best practices to support long-term solution maintainability.

- Collaborate with cross-functional engineering teams to deliver scalable, high-quality analytics and reporting solutions.

In conclusion, don't miss out on this exciting opportunity to join our team and make a meaningful impact! Apply today! 🤝👍✉️ Please feel free to drop in your resume at [email protected].

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