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DataEngineer/Sr.DataEngineer-ITDDP(Contractual)

Washington, District of Columbia, United States FULL TIME
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The Brief

“Data Engineer/Sr. Data Engineer -ITDDP (Contractual) at IMF. Skills: Azure cloud platform management, Data pipeline engineering, Data storage platform operation, Data governance enablement, DevOps and automation, Self-service analytics support, Performance monitoring and optimization, Cost efficiency driving. Operating and improving the enterprise data platform. Delivering analytics solutions”

What You'll Achieve.

Deliver scalable, secure, business-aligned capabilities; Proven delivery of complex analytics solutions; Effective delivery of service provider resources; Ensure optimal networking, storage, compute, and identity functions; Ensure compliance with enterprise security and regulatory requirements; Ensure consistency between physical and logical models; Ensure optimal performance and usability of data models

Industry & Context.

Problems you'll solve

Analyzes requests, designs methodology and develops programs and modules for advanced data modeling visualization

Eligibility Requirements

One-year contractual appointment, Contractual appointments at the IMF are renewable for up to four years of cumulative contractual service, pending incumbent's performance, budget availability and continuous business need

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

Azure certifications (Administrator, Data Engineer, or Architect tracks), 5 to 6 years in Azure cloud and data engineering roles, Experience with Azure Purview or equivalent data governance tools, Hands-on experience with at least one target architecture: Medallion, Data Mesh, Semantic Layer–First, Familiarity with Event-driven architectures, Familiarity with API-based data sharing, Familiarity with Real-time analytics, Experience with CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions), Experience with Infrastructure as Code, 5 to 6 years of technical architect experience directly related to Azure Cloud development and administration, Demonstrated technical expertise of working with tools/services such as Power BI, Oracle PL/SQL (among others) and Azure Functions

Nice to Have

Semantic Layer–First Architecture

What You'll Do.

Operating and improving the enterprise data platform

Delivering analytics solutions

Designing and running data warehouse solutions

Coordinating service provider resources

Provisioning Azure resources

Enforcing RBAC and policies

Monitoring Azure health

Controlling Azure costs

Building and maintaining scalable ETL/ELT workflows

and lakehouse environments

Enforcing access controls

and compliance standards

Automating deployments and platform operations using CI/CD and Infrastructure as Code

Delivering curated datasets

Optimizing semantic models

Enabling governed BI usage

Tracking pipeline reliability

and query performance

Optimizing compute/storage usage

Implementing cost management strategies

Designing and managing a multi-layered data architecture

Building and orchestrating pipelines using Azure Data Factory

Enforcing data quality and schema evolution controls

Optimizing storage and compute for high-throughput batch and streaming ingestion

Implementing partitioning

and Delta optimization strategies

Developing self-service analytics

Designing and managing enterprise semantic models

Enabling self-service analytics through governed datasets

Optimizing data models for performance and usability

Integrating semantic layer with upstream pipelines

Ensuring consistency between physical and logical models

Conducting Azure Cloud Administration

Production deployments

Managing corporate data azure infrastructure

Monitoring platform health using Azure-native observability tools

Ensuring compliance with enterprise security and regulatory requirements

Supporting data governance enablement using metadata management tools (Collibra and Purview)

and data lineage capabilities of metadata management tools

Enforcing data classification

and data quality standards

designing methodology and developing programs and modules for advanced data modeling visualization

Leading Managed Service Providers ensuring delivery of data driven solutions

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Partnering with platform owners; Collaboration with the enterprise architects; Collaboration with source platform teams; Collaboration with other integrated team members; Collaboration with enterprise Azure platform support

Communication Scope

oral and written communication skills; ability to convey higher level technical concepts to non-experts

Full Job Description

Work for the IMF. Work for the World. **Job Summary** Under the direction of the Deputy Division Chief (Data Platforms Division) in the IT Department at the IMF, the Data Engineer/Sr. Data Engineer supports the Corporate Data team by operating and improving the enterprise data platform and delivering analytics solutions. The role partners with platform owners to design and run data warehouse solutions, reports, and dashboards, and coordinates service provider resources for effective delivery. This role blends cloud platform engineering, data pipeline development, and data governance enablement to deliver scalable, secure, business-aligned capabilities. It requires proven delivery of complex analytics solutions, strong Azure/cloud and data warehousing skills, and experience implementing and supporting data governance tools. **The ideal candidate should demonstrate expertise and capability to:** * **Manage Azure cloud platform:** provision resources, enforce RBAC and policies, secure networking, monitor health, ensure backup/DR, and control costs. * **Engineer data pipelines:** build and maintain scalable ETL/ELT workflows for batch and real-time data ingestion and transformation. * **Operate data storage platforms:** manage data lakes, warehouses, and lakehouse environments with performance optimization. * **Enable data governance:** enforce access controls, data classification, quality checks, lineage, and compliance standards. * **Implement DevOps and automation:** use CI/CD and Infrastructure as Code to automate deployments and platform operations. * **Support self-service analytics:** deliver curated datasets, optimize semantic models, and enable governed BI usage. * **Monitor and optimize performance:** track pipeline reliability, data latency, and query performance with alerting and tuning. * **Drive cost efficiency:** optimize compute/storage usage and implement cost management strategies. **Major Duties and Responsibilities** 1\. Design and manage a multi-lay

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