Azure Synapse Data Engineer (Alteryx Migration)

Toronto, ON
Hybrid
Posted Nov 10, 2026
1 position

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Employment type: Contract
Posting language: English
Office presence: 4 days per week
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Job summary

Build, optimize, and maintain Azure Synapse pipelines and SQL transformations to migrate and run Alteryx workflows, including orchestration, security, and performance tuning. Collaborate with data modeling and conversion teams, monitor platform performance and costs, troubleshoot workloads, and provide architectural guidance.

Job details

Hi, Role : Synapse Engineer Location : Toronto hybrid (4 days a week) Contract Job Description / Role Summary The Synapse Engineer (Remote) builds, optimizes, and maintains the Azure Synapse environment used to replace Alteryx workflows. The role implements pipelines, SQL transformations, orchestration, and security. They work closely with the onsite Data Modeler and Conversion Analyst to ensure end‑to‑end production-quality execution of migrated workloads. Key Responsibilities Build Synapse pipelines, SQL transformations, datasets, and linked services. Transformation exp in Synapse SQL, PySpark, or Data Flows. Synapse notebooks/pipelines, SQL, Pyspark, ADO for CI/CD, ESP scheduling Tune performance of dedicated SQL pools (partitioning, indexing, caching). Implement CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps or GitHub. Configure and manage data security, RLS, access roles, and auditing. Optimize ADLS Gen2 folder structures, file formats, and Delta/Parquet usage. Collaborate with the Data Modeller to ensure accurate implementation of models. Monitor Synapse environments, performance, costs, and autoscaling. Troubleshoot issues across ingestion, transformation, orchestration phases. Provide architectural guidance and platform best practices. Required Experience 5+ years in data engineering with 3+ years in Azure Synapse. Strong T‑SQL, ETL/ELT pipeline development, and workload optimization. Experience migrating Alteryx, SSIS, Databricks, or equivalent ETL systems. Knowledge of Delta Lake, Parquet, partitioning, schema evolution. CI/CD experience in Azure DevOps, Git, environment promotion. Preferred Skills Experience with retail or loyalty analytics workloads. Familiarity with Azure Purview or similar governance solutions. Nagendar Mula Talent Acquisition Lead www.cyberspaceinc.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/nagendar-goud-38680ba6/ 33 Wood Ave, Suite 419, Iselin, NJ 08830, USA 4300 Punjab Way, Suite 280, Frisco, TX 75033, USA

What you’ll do

Requirements

Requires 5+ years of data engineering experience, including 3+ years with Azure Synapse, strong T-SQL and ETL/ELT development skills, and workload optimization experience. Candidates should have experience migrating ETL systems such as Alteryx, SSIS, or Databricks, and knowledge of Delta Lake, Parquet, partitioning, schema evolution, and CI/CD.