10/07/2026 updated

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Lead Azure Data Engineer & Architect

Trnava, Slovakia
Only remote
Trnava, Slovakia
Only remote

Profile attachments

Resume-Robert-Schmidt-20261004.pdf

Microsoft AzureMicrosoft SQL ServersAzure SQLAzure Data FactoryData LakeDatabricks
Azure Databricks, Azure Data Factory, Azure Data Lake, Delta lake, Azure SQL Database, Azure DevOps, MS SQL Database, SSIS, SSAS, Dremio

Experience

Professional experience5 - 10 years
Freelancer since2020

Languages

EnglishFluentSlovakNative speakerCzechNative speaker

Project history

Lead Azure Data Engineer & Architect

Persistent Systems

>10.000 team member

(Azure Databricks, Azure Data Factory, Azure SQL DB, ADLS Gen 2, Delta Lake, Grafana, Dremio)
• Technically led a team of 8 developers
• Designed and led the transformation of Data Observability (30,000+ pipelines monitored daily) and Data Quality (200+ GB of data scanned with recently adopted solution) platforms into globally scalable enterprise solutions
• Delivered end-to-end monitoring of Azure resources supporting a critical data product, enabling immediate detection of failures and data inconsistencies instead of response times of up to two weeks
• Improved governance, operational visibility, and cost monitoring across globally distributed data platforms
• Designed and delivered real-time integration with a corporate ticketing platform, improving incident and operational workflows.

Lead Azure Data Engineer

Sodexo

>10.000 team member

Data Analytics (Dremio, ADLS Gen 2, SQL MI, PowerBI, Fabric)
• Technically led a team of 8 developers and provided technical leadership to additional teams
• Led the introduction and integration of Dremio as the semantic layer of the organizations data platform
• Assessed Microsoft Fabric adoption and prepared the organization for migration and onboarding
• Introduced Dremio to engineering teams through technical training and onboarding, driving adoption among 250+ users
• Stabilized and enhanced an Azure-based enterprise DWH solution, including monitoring, operational reliability, and new capabilities

Data Integrations (Azure Databricks, Azure Data Factory, Azure SQL DB, ADLS Gen 2)
• Technically led team of 5 developers and supported other teams as tech lead
• Contributed to the design of the data processing strategy and built a framework that reduced time-to-market by ~70%
• Built, troubleshot, and supported critical data ingestion pipelines

Azure Data Engineer

Swiss Re
(Azure Databricks, Azure Data Factory, Azure SQL Database, ADLS Gen 2, Delta Lake, PySpark, T-
SQL)
* Design and implement data ingestion for terabytes of data and their processing in concurrent mode
using Azure Databricks and Delta Lake framework
* Orchestrate data pipelines and maintenance jobs with Azure Data Factory
* Develop, optimize and maintain Azure SQL Database

Azure Data Engineer

Rare Crew
(Azure Databricks, Azure Data Factory, ADLS Gen2, Azure Synapse, SSAS, PySpark, Azure Functions)
* Design and develop solutions for collecting data from different type of sources as APIs, relational and
non-relational databases with Azure Databricks, Azure Functions and Azure Data Factory
* Orchestrate pipelines with Azure Data Factory
* Build data warehouse
* Use Azure Functions and Event Grid as API and forward data to third party solutions

BI/DWH Developer

Rare Crew
(MS SQL Server, SSIS, SSAS, T-SQL)
* Full life cycle of software development for business intelligence solutions
* Design reusable SSIS packages for SFTP integration and data ingestion from flat files
* Ingest data from various sources and create datamarts
* Build SSAS tabular models for analysis purposes

ETL Developer

Accenture
Enterprise Value Targeting (MS SQL Server, SSIS, Tableau, T-SQL)
* Prepare and store data for fact-based assessment and benchmarking
* Design ETL processes in SSIS and T-SQL
* Modify and test reports and visualizations according requirements

Data warehouse showcase (Informatica DQ/PowerCenter Developer, Oracle)
* Analyze of current implementation of data quality and reporting services
* Install, configure, administer and migration of Informatica server
* Build data warehouse with data from different sources
* Build data quality solution consists of rules, profiling, exception handling and data cleaning
* Demonstrate data catalogue and data lineage

Software Engineer

Freelance
Dec 2016 - Dec 2017 (1 year 1 month)
Develop Android mobile application for photo focus stacking (Android, SQLite, Java, C++)
* Find and modify open source camera application
* Merge application with focus stacking algorithm in C++
* Test, debug and optimize the application for specific use cases

Develop JSF web application for civil engineering company (JSF, PostgreSQL, Primefaces, Java)
* Focus on data and application layer of multitier architecture
* Database design

SQL Developer

EY
Develop solutions for financial institutions (MS SQL Server, SSIS, T-SQL)
* ETL development, SQL optimization
* Business and application specific consulting with customers
* Database design
* Develop store procedures and functions for web application

Certificates

Databricks Certified Associate Developer

Databricks

2021

Microsoft Certified: Azure Data Engineer Associate

Microsoft

2021

MCSA: SQL 2016 Database Development

Microsoft

2021

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