Senior Fabric Developer

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. 

Responsibilities include but are not limited to: 

• 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