Agency :
Havas Creative
Job Description :
The Senior Database Engineer is a hands-on senior engineering role responsible for designing, building, optimizing, and evolving up-to-date Microsoft data platforms across Azure and Microsoft Fabric. The position owns cloud data engineering, enterprise warehouse and lakehouse architecture, data integration, semantic consumption, and AI-ready data products. The successful candidate brings a minimum of seven years of data engineering, database engineering, or data warehousing experience, including practical experience enabling generative AI solutions with copilots, large language models, retrieval-augmented generation, embeddings, vector or hybrid retrieval, prompt engineering, model evaluation, and responsible AI controls.
- Design, build, and support enterprise data solutions using Azure and Microsoft Fabric.
- Create scalable Fabric Lakehouse, Fabric Warehouse, and hybrid warehouse architectures with raw, standardized, curated, and consumption-ready layers.
- Design dimensional models, star schemas, facts, dimensions, data marts,
semantic-ready datasets, and reusable data products.
- Build production ETL/ELT using Fabric Data Factory, Azure Data Factory, SQL, Python, PySpark, notebooks, APIs, files, and event or batch integration patterns.
- Engineer OneLake-aligned solutions, shortcuts, pipelines, notebooks, SQL endpoints, Power BI semantic models, and Direct Lake patterns when appropriate.
- Create governed data foundations for generative AI, copilots, agents, search, and analytics using Microsoft Foundry or Azure OpenAI, Azure AI Search, and enterprise data sources.
- Design and implement RAG workflows, including ingestion, chunking, metadata, embeddings, vector/hybrid retrieval, grounding, prompt design, citations, and evaluation.
- Evaluate LLM solution quality, grounding, latency, cost, content safety, data leakage risk, and business fitness before production use.
- Use tools such as Copilot in Microsoft Fabric, GitHub Co
📌 Senior Database Engineer (Chennai)
🏢 Havas
📍 Chennai