C2C- Sr. Azure AI Platform Engineer - Bellevue, WA/Frisco, TX/Kansas City, KS/Atlanta, GA (hybrid)

Hi, Hope you’re doing well. My name is Chandan and I am a Recruitment Manager from Empower Professionals Inc. We are sourcing for a Sr. Azure AI Platform Engineer (22414-1) role located at Bellevue, WA/Frisco, TX/Kansas City, KS/Atlanta, GA (hybrid) and it’s a long-term contract with possible extensions. If you have any suitable profiles, please share their updated resumes with the candidate’s location, work authorization and expected rate so that we can proceed. 11+ Years Role: Sr. Azure AI Platform Engineer (22414-1) Location: Bellevue, WA/Frisco, TX/Kansas City, KS/Atlanta, GA (hybrid) Duration: 12+ Months Locals only Responsibilities: Build serving stores, sync pipelines, and API layers for pilot use cases. Configure each pilot end-to-end: source table binding, key schema, sync schedule, and consumer integration. Set up CI/CD pipelines with automated tests covering sync correctness, API contract validation, and latency benchmarks. Operate to defined SLAs for latency, freshness, and availability. Partner with domain teams (Consumer & Marketing, Commercial & Revenue, Growth, Pricing & Analytics) to onboard their use cases onto the patterns we build. Contribute to reference implementations, blueprints, and documentation that future teams will reuse. Requirements: API development: production Python with FastAPI or comparable; versioned REST APIs, contracts, governance. Batch and real-time data pipelines: Kafka or comparable streaming, plus CDC or incremental batch; built and operated end-to-end. Caching and key-value serving: production Redis or Valkey; cache invalidation, TTL strategies, hot-path serving. Vector databases and knowledge graphs: Pinecone, Weaviate, pgvector, Neo4j, or comparable; embeddings and retrieval patterns. AI software engineering: hands-on building data infrastructure for AI and ML use cases (RAG, agent tooling, feature serving). Azure Databricks, Delta Lake, Unity Catalog: hands-on production experience. Delta Lake internals: transaction log, time travel, and Change Data Feed (CDF). SQL and data modeling: comfortable with point-lookup vs analytical query patterns. CI/CD: GitLab or GitHub Actions; automated tests for data pipelines. Communication: works directly with senior architects, product managers, and domain stakeholders. Nice to have: Embedded analytical engines: DuckDB or comparable. Microsoft Fabric / OneLake / Power BI Semantic Models: production experience. SLAs and SLOs: defining and operating for data products or APIs. MCP-style tooling: data access for AI agents. Enterprise-scale data serving: prior work on serving infrastructure at large enterprise. In compliance with the salary transparency law, the expected pay range for this role is $50 – $60/hr. Actual compensation depends on experience and interview evaluation. Thanks Chandan Manager | Empower Professionals ........................................................................................................................................................ chandan@empowerprofessionals.com | 100 Franklin Square Drive – Suite 104 | Somerset, NJ 08873 www.empowerprofessionals.com Certified NJ and NY Minority Business Enterprise (NMSDC) Empower Professionals firmly opposes e-mail "spamming". We apologize to those who do not wish to receive this e-mail and also to those who have accidentally received it again. Please reply with “REMOVE” in the subject listing, with all aliases email addresses that you would want removed and any inconvenience caused is highly regretted. We appreciate your patience and cooperation. This e-mail and any files transmitted with it are for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient(s), please reply to the sender and destroy all copies of the original message. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure, dissemination, forwarding, printing or copying of this email, and/or any action taken in reliance on the contents of this e-mail is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful To subscribe or unsubscribe: https://send.empowerprofessionals.com/newsletter/subscribe/647186e8-bcb0-4f73-8f80-cb3daff9ad90