Data Engineer (Contract)

Lextech is a group of inventive thinkers who care deeply about our clients.  We create experiences that achieve their most important business results.  Lextech is looking to add a Data Engineer to the team.  This is a 4 week contract, with a possible extension for implementation

The core deliverable for this role is a comprehensive end-to-end data pipeline audit across CosmosDB, Azure Data Factory, Azure SQL, and Power BI, with a prioritized remediation plan delivered within the first 4 weeks.

What will you be working on:

• Conduct a comprehensive end-to-end data pipeline audit across CosmosDB, Azure Data Factory, Azure SQL, and Power BI, and deliver a prioritized remediation plan within the first 30 days
• Perform systematic root cause analysis on the multi-campaign attribution issue (sessions incorrectly assigned to multiple campaigns)
• Identify any other data quality issues not yet discovered
• Assess current data validation and monitoring gaps
• Evaluate database performance issues (e.g., query taking 9 minutes over 5M records - possible indexing problems)
• Deliver a prioritized remediation roadmap with level of effort estimates
• Recommend proactive monitoring strategy (dashboards, alerts, health checks)
• Deliverables:
  • Data flow diagram mapping every pipeline from source to report
  • Complete issue registry with severity, affected pipeline, root cause analysis, and evidence
  • Prioritized remediation plan with wave-based rollout, fix specifications, testing plans, and rollback plans
  • Monitoring framework recommendation for ongoing data quality assurance

Required Technical Experience:

• 5+ years in data engineering or database architecture
• Strong SQL and relational database optimization (indexing, query performance)
• Experience with ETL pipelines and data quality frameworks
• Proven track record in systematic root cause analysis
• Familiarity with BI tools (PowerBI preferred)
• Experience implementing data monitoring and alerting systems
• Ability to communicate technical findings clearly to non-technical stakeholders
• Azure data stack experience (CosmosDB, Azure Data Factory, Azure SQL)
• Ability to articulate a phased audit methodology (discovery, documentation, issue identification, root cause analysis, prioritized remediation) without prompting
• Understanding that pipelines implement business logic, not just move data — ability to identify when a transformation is technically correct but produces wrong output due to incorrect or outdated business rules

Required Behavioral Qualities:

• Systematic over reactive — works from architecture down to specifics, not from tickets up. Traces full pipelines from source to report rather than picking off backlog items.
• Fast discovery instinct — inspects schemas, runs exploratory queries, and checks field-level join logic before scheduling meetings. Forms firsthand understanding of the data independently.
• Owns the full vertical — can trace a number from a Power BI dashboard back through the view, the fact table, the staging table, and the source event log.
• Proactive communicator — surfaces findings, blockers, and next steps without being asked. Does not wait for standup to share status.

Nice to Have:

• Healthcare or pharmaceutical industry experience
• Experience with marketing/campaign analytics data
• Experience building scalable, centralized data layers or APIs