Senior Data Engineer (AI Systems & Data Platforms)

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