Key skills
PythonSQLAIAgenticData EngineeringAnalyticsDatabricksSparkAzureREST APISAP
About this role
Sourcebooks is an innovative publishing powerhouse that believes in the transformative power of books and the necessity of an entrepreneurial mindset. They are seeking a contract data engineer to help scale their data platform, focusing on building and extending infrastructure for informed decision-making.
Responsibilities:
- Expand silver and gold table coverage by converting raw data into business-ready tables, incorporating business logic from analytics stakeholders
- Maintain and debug pipelines in Microsoft Fabric and Azure Data Factory
- Validate incremental load logic
- Investigate data issues
Requirements:
- 3-5 years of experience in analytics or ideally data engineering
- Strong SQL skills -- multi-CTE queries, and comfortable debugging code a team member wrote
- Hands-on experience with a cloud data platform (Fabric, Databricks, or similar), and Python/PySpark as a secondary skill, enough to read and modify existing notebooks
- Have worked within established systems, follow Spark SQL conventions, and communicate blockers clearly
- Experience with Microsoft Fabric
- Familiar with Delta Lake and medallion architecture
- Experience with financial transaction data (SAP, NetSuite)
- Azure CLI or REST API experience for platform-level queries
- Exposure to agentic AI workflows or AI-assisted development for debugging