Senior Data & AI Engineer
Founding senior engineer for Zure Denmark's new Data & AI practice: designing and building Azure data platforms and AI solutions (Microsoft Fabric, Databricks, Azure OpenAI) for Danish clients, setting practice standards, mentoring, and joining pre-sales. Requires 5+ years data engineering with 3+ on Azure.
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- Roskilde, Denmark
- Work setup
- Not specified
- Seniority
- Senior
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- 5+ years
- Category
- Ai engineering
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- 5+ years hands-on data engineering, at least 3 on Azure, with real production systems
- Depth in the Azure data stack: Microsoft Fabric and/or Azure Databricks, Azure Data Factory, Data Lake, Synapse or SQL, lakehouse patterns
- Strong Python and SQL, plus Spark
- Working experience with AI on Azure: Azure AI Foundry, Azure OpenAI, RAG patterns
- Engineering discipline: Git, CI/CD, infrastructure as code (Bicep or Terraform), testing, data governance with Microsoft Purview
- Fluent English
Nice to have
- Danish language skills
- Microsoft certifications such as DP-600, DP-700, AI-102 or DP-203
- Visible community profile: blog, conference talks, user groups, open source, or MVP award
- Consulting experience, including scoping and estimating engagements
- Experience with Azure Landing Zones, CAF/WAF, or data platform security (Purview, Sentinel, Defender)
Full description
Founding member, Data & AI practice · Zure Denmark
Data is the lifeblood of business, and helping businesses turn it into value on Azure is what we do at Zure. We are now building a Data & AI practice in Denmark, and we are looking for a Senior Data & AI Engineer to help shape it from the ground up: the engagements we take on, the standards we hold, and the team we hire next.
There's a sentence we use at Zure that sounds like marketing until you've worked here for a month: we don't hire people for projects; we hire people for life. This role is the clearest example of that we can offer. You won't be filling a seat on a project. You'll be helping decide what the practice becomes.
What you'll be doing
Zure does one thing, Microsoft Azure, and we have done it for over 16 years across 120+ experts in Finland, Denmark, the UK, Belgium and the Netherlands. In Denmark you will be the senior hands on our data and AI engagements, and a founding voice in how we run them.
- Deliver. Design and build data platforms and AI solutions for Danish clients on Azure: Microsoft Fabric, Databricks, lakehouse and medallion architectures, Azure AI Foundry and Azure OpenAI. You own the architecture, not just the pipelines.
- Take the hard ones. A data platform held together with hope and scheduled jobs. An AI ambition with no data foundation under it. Those are the engagements we want, and you will lead them.
- Shape the practice. Set the reference architectures, accelerators and engineering standards the Danish practice will be built on, and help us decide who we hire next.
- Lean on the group. Work with the UK data team, platform architects in Helsinki and integration specialists in Antwerp. You are never alone with a problem.
- Support the sell. Join discovery workshops and pre-sales conversations as the technical voice, and scope engagements you would want to deliver.
- Learn out loud. Mentor colleagues, share what breaks and why, and keep community work (blogging, speaking, user groups, open source) as part of the job rather than an extra.
What you bring
- 5+ years of hands-on data engineering, with at least 3 of them on Azure, and real production systems you can talk about in detail
- Depth in the Azure data stack: Microsoft Fabric and/or Azure Databricks, Azure Data Factory, Data Lake, Synapse or SQL, and the lakehouse patterns that tie them together
- Strong Python and SQL, plus Spark where the data is big enough to need it
- Working experience with AI on Azure: Azure AI Foundry, Azure OpenAI, RAG patterns, and the data engineering that makes them trustworthy