Job Description
We are a global law firm with a powerful strategic focus and real momentum. Our industry-focused strategy is seeing us take on pioneering work in places that others have yet to reach. Our shared values define our culture and our workplace. You will find us to be unusually collegial, team-oriented, and ready to innovate. We work seamlessly across practices, offices and around the world. This elimination of boundaries has allowed us to evolve into a law firm that works as hard for its culture as it does for its clients.
The Senior Fabric Developer plays a crucial role in architecting, designing, developing, and maintaining complex Microsoft Fabric data solutions and database systems, including ETL/ELT, data movement and semantic modeling. This position requires deep expertise in Microsoft Fabric and cloud migrations. The ideal candidate has extensive experience with large-scale databases, cloud platforms and analytics modeling, ensuring strong data governance, performance optimization, and reliable, low-risk migrations while focused on delivering business insights.
This position is ideally located in Austin, Dallas, or Houston, Texas. The role will require presence in the office from time to time pursuant to the firm’s hybrid work policy.
- Architect and develop scalable, secure, and performant data solutions using Microsoft Fabric
- Implement database solutions utilizing the following engines: Lakehouse, Warehouse, Azure SQL Database, and SQL Server
- Develop, implement, and optimize ETL/ELT assets including pipelines, dataflows, and notebooks, as well as stored procedures, triggers, views, and functions
- Analyze existing SQL queries using execution plans and recommend tuning improvements (i.e., performance optimization)
- Develop procedures and scripts for data migration, validation, and reconciliation
- Create logical and physical ERD designs
- Design holistic data solutions to support data governance, lineage, quality, and standards
- Create and maintain Power BI semantic models and reports with a strong emphasis on performance optimization
- Design and Create modules to increase system performance and stability
- Creating Alerts regarding system performance, stability and availability
- Tune various modules to ensure system performance
- Lead cloud database migration projects, ensuring minimal downtime and minimal data loss
- Integrate various data sources to create unified data models
- Analyze and optimize database performance, ensuring efficient query execution and resource utilization
- Automate database and data-solution deployments using Azure DevOps (ADO) CI/CD pipelines
- Implement security measures to protect sensitive data and ensure compliance with industry standards
- Maintain comprehensive documentation of designs, configurations, and migration processes
- Partner with cross-functional teams to understand business requirements and deliver tailored solutions
- Mentor junior developers and conduct knowledge-sharing sessions to enhance team capabilities
- Stay current with evolving database and analytics technologies and recommend innovative solutions
Other duties
Please note this job description does not cover or contain all activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information technology, or a related field
- Minimum of 7 years of experience in database development, with a focus on SQL Server, ETL/ELT design and build, database design/build, and cloud migration
- In lieu of bachelor’s degree, 11 years of experience in database development, with a focus on SQL Server, ETL/ELT design and build, database design/build, and cloud migration
- Minimum 2 years of hands-on experience with Microsoft Fabric, including Pipelines, Dataflows, Notebooks, Lakehouse/Warehouse, and orchestration patterns (e.g., Airflow where applicable)
- Expertise in Microsoft Fabric and its applications in data engineering and analytics solutions
- Proficient in SQL Server, including T-SQL programming, stored procedures, and triggers
- Experience with cloud database platforms
- Experience designing and creating Power BI reports (and related semantic modeling preferred)
- Experience following SDLC and Agile processes
- Experience assisting business partners in creating functional specifications
- Experience creating technical specification documents based on functional specifications
- Experience with database replication/mirroring patterns (e.g., CDC and related approaches)
- Strong understanding of database architecture and design principles
- Experience with ETL/ELT tools (e.g., SSIS and/or modern cloud ETL/ELT tooling) and best practices
- Familiarity with data warehousing and BI solutions
- Certifications: Relevant certifications in Microsoft Fabric, SQL Server, and cloud platforms are preferred
- Microsoft Azure and Azure Pipelines experience is a plus
- Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team
- Sense of ownership and pride in performance and its impact on company success
- Detail-oriented with a focus on quality and accuracy
- Proactive and self-motivated with a drive for continuous improvement
Norton Rose Fulbright US LLP is committed to providing employees with a comprehensive and competitive benefits package that supports you, your health, and your family. Benefit packages include access to three medical plans, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance. Employees can also access pre-tax benefits such as health savings and flexible spending accounts. Norton Rose Fulbright helps provide financial security by allowing employees to participate in a 401(k) savings plan and profit-sharing plans if eligible. Full- time employees are eligible to access fertility benefits designed to support fertility and family-forming journeys.
In addition to the Firm’s health and welfare benefits above, we offer a competitive paid time off plan, which provides a minimum of 20 days off based on your role and tenure with the firm. The firm offers a generous paid parental leave benefit allowing parents to take a minimum of 14 weeks of paid leave to bond with your newborn, or adopted child(ren). Employees are also entitled to 11 Firm holidays.
Norton Rose Fulbright US LLP is an Equal Opportunity Employer and complies with all applicable federal laws and their implementing regulations that require the collection and recording of certain data and information. The information we receive will not be used to make any decision regarding employment and will be kept separate from your application. Similarly, self-identification information is kept confidential and used only in accordance with applicable federal laws and regulations. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected veteran status. Norton Rose Fulbright is committed to providing reasonable accommodation as an Equal Opportunity Employer to applicants with disabilities. If you require assistance or accommodation to complete your application, please contact [email protected]. Please provide your contact information and a description of your accessibility issue. We will make a determination on your request for reasonable accommodation on a case-by-case basis.
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What We Do
We provide the world’s preeminent corporations and financial institutions with a full business law service. We have more than 3,500 lawyers and other legal staff based in Europe, the United States, Canada, Latin America, Asia, Australia, the Middle East and Africa. Recognized for our industry focus, we are strong across all the key industry sectors: financial institutions; energy, infrastructure and resources; consumer markets; transport; technology; and life sciences and healthcare. Through our global risk advisory group, we leverage our industry experience with our knowledge of legal, regulatory, compliance and governance issues to provide our clients with practical solutions to the legal and regulatory risks facing their businesses. Wherever we are, we operate in accordance with our global business principles of quality, unity and integrity. We aim to provide the highest possible standard of legal service in each of our offices and to maintain that level of quality at every point of contact. Norton Rose Fulbright Verein, a Swiss verein, helps coordinate the activities of Norton Rose Fulbright members but does not itself provide legal services to clients. Norton Rose Fulbright has offices in more than 50 cities worldwide, including London, Houston, New York, Toronto, Mexico City, Hong Kong, Sydney and Johannesburg. For more information, see nortonrosefulbright.com/legal-notices
