Data Engineer - Contract Role

Sourcebooks is an innovative publishing powerhouse that believes in the transformative power of books. They are seeking a contract data engineer to help scale their data platform by building and extending infrastructure that supports informed decision-making within the organization.

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
• Have experience with Microsoft Fabric
• Be familiar with Delta Lake and medallion architecture
• Have experience with financial transaction data (SAP, NetSuite)
• Azure CLI or REST API experience for platform-level queries
• Have exposure to agentic AI workflows or AI-assisted development for debugging