Manager of Azure Data Integration - saint-laurent (Orléans)

The Manager of Data Integration (Azure ETL/ELT) will lead the strategy, delivery, and operational excellence of enterprise data pipelines across both Azure cloud and on‑premises environments.

This role combines people leadership, architectural oversight, and platform ownership, with a robust focus on up‑to‑date Azure‑native data integration while supporting legacy SQL‑based systems. You will lead a high‑performing team of data engineers and be accountable for ETL platform performance, reliability, and scalability.

What You’ll Do

• Leadership: Strategy Lead, mentor, and grow a team of data engineers and ETL developers
• Define and drive the ETL/ELT architecture roadmap, with a strong emphasis on Azure modernization
• Establish engineering standards, code review practices, and delivery excellence
• Collaborate with Enterprise Architecture, Cloud, and Data Governance teams, while owning ETL design decisions

Azure Data Engineering

• Modernization Architect and oversee pipelines using Azure Data Factory, Fabric Data Factory, Synapse Pipelines, and related services
• Lead the migration of legacy SSIS/on‑prem ETL to scalable cloud‑native solutions
• Design ingestion frameworks for structured, semi‑structured (JSON, XML, CSV), and unstructured data
• Optimize pipeline performance, scalability, and cost using Azure monitoring tools
• Apply best practices: parallelization, metadata‑driven pipelines, and parameterization

Data Quality, Governance & Security

• Implement data validation, monitoring, and automated quality controls
• Ensure compliance with data governance, lineage, and metadata standards
• Enforce security best practices (RBAC, managed identities, encryption)
• Support data privacy requirements (PII handling, masking, retention policies)

Operational Excellence

• Oversee daily operations: scheduling, monitoring, incident management
• Own and improve SLAs for data reliability, timeliness, and availability
• Implement CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps
• Drive automation and resiliency across ETL processes

Collaboration

• Delivery Partner with analytics, reporting, data science, and application teams
• Translate business needs into scalable data solutions
• Prioritize initiatives based on business value and impact
• Guide integration of current systems and data sources

What You Bring

• 7+ years in data engineering, ETL/ELT, or data integration
• 2–5+ years in team leadership or management roles
• Hands‑on experience with Azure Data Factory, Synapse Analytics, Azure Storage (ADLS Gen2), Azure Functions
• SQL and modern ELT patterns
• Proven experience modernizing legacy ETL to cloud platforms
• Strong background in Azure DevOps, Git, and CI/CD practices