The Zig is a company focused on building AI systems that drive real business outcomes. They are seeking a Senior Data Engineer to design and implement scalable data systems that support AI and operational intelligence, ensuring data quality and performance.
Responsibilities:
- Design and implement scalable data pipelines
- Write production-grade code for ingestion and transformation
- Build data models for analytics and AI use cases
- Work within Microsoft Fabric / Azure ecosystem
- Ensure data quality, performance, and reliability
- Prepare data for AI use (RAG, embeddings, semantic layers)
- Reliable pipelines powering business workflows
- Data models enabling AI agents and decision systems
- Systems that reduce manual effort and improve efficiency
- AI-ready datasets deployable in weeks
Requirements:
- Strong coding ability (Python and SQL)
- Experience building data pipelines end-to-end
- Deep understanding of data modeling
- Experience with modern data platforms (Fabric, Databricks, Snowflake)
- Ability to work with messy enterprise data
- Experience supporting AI/LLM systems
- Familiarity with vector databases and embeddings
- Bias toward shipping quickly and iterating in production