{"schemaVersion":"jobsearcher.job.v1","id":"1023b73f9f891e56b663fd16","url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/1023b73f9f891e56b663fd16","canonicalUrl":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/1023b73f9f891e56b663fd16","title":"Cloud Engineer - Data","description":"Job Title: Cloud Solutions Engineer – Data (Azure/Fabric)\r\nLocation: National Harbor, MD (Hybrid)\r\nType: Full Time\r\nCompensation: $100,000 to $140,000 annually, subject to experience, plus a performance bonus up to 10% of annual salary paid in quarterly increments.\r\nIf you're a cloud/data engineer who's energized by complex data challenges, passionate about the Microsoft data ecosystem, and ready to do work that actually matters to clients — this is the role you've been looking for.\r\nCloudforce is seeking an experienced engineer to join our growing data practice. You'll be designing, building, and maintaining sophisticated data solutions on Microsoft Azure and Microsoft Fabric for high-profile clients across the US and Europe — working on projects that are technically demanding and genuinely consequential. This isn't a role where you'll be maintaining someone else's pipelines or responding to tickets. You'll be architecting solutions from the ground up, translating complex business data requirements into scalable, reliable architectures, and contributing to a practice that's at the forefront of AI and of the Microsoft data platform.\r\nResponsibilities\r\nDesign, develop, migrate, and maintain scalable data pipelines and ETL processes on Microsoft Fabric, utilizing Azure data and analytics resources.\r\nDesign and implement data integration processes to extract, transform, and load (ETL) data from various sources both on-prem, external third-party applications, and other cloud providers.\r\nUnderstand, design, and implement data solutions following industry standard architectural frameworks such as Data Mesh, Data Lake, Data Fabric, and Data Warehouse architectures.\r\nDesign and implement industry standard data modeling techniques for semantic modeling for Power BI such as \"Star\" or \"Snowflake\" schemas.\r\nCreate data processing workflows and pipelines to support data 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