Sr. Staff Data Engineer

Onwards Together!

Illumio is the leader in ransomware and breach containment, redefining how organizations contain cyberattacks and enable operational resilience. Powered by the Illumio AI Security Graph, our breach containment platform identifies and contains threats across hybrid multi-cloud environments – stopping the spread of attacks before they become disasters.

Recognized as a Leader in the Forrester Wave™ for Microsegmentation, Illumio enables Zero Trust, strengthening cyber resilience for the infrastructure, systems, and organizations that keep the world running.

Location: 4 on-site days a week in Sunnyvale, CA Headquarters.

Our Team's Vision:

Our IT team is the trusted technology partner that empowers Illumio to innovate, scale, and lead. We create seamless digital experiences, deliver reliable and secure applications, unlock the value of data, and enable every employee to do their best work from anywhere.

By combining enterprise applications, data and AI services, cloud and infrastructure engineering, cybersecurity, and workplace technologies, we provide the foundation that powers business growth and operational excellence.

We are innovators, builders, and stewards of technology tasked with driving automation, accelerating decision-making, safeguarding critical assets, and continually advancing the capabilities that help Illumio achieve its mission.

Your Impact:

• Own and support Fabric AI initiatives in support of Organization wide projects using our Fabric Data Warehouse. Own and support enterprise data pipelines, Microsoft Fabric and Power BI solutions, and analytics operations. This role expands engineering capacity during the Domo-to-Fabric PowerBI migration and provides durable production support, data-quality management, report development, governance execution, and business enablement across Finance, Sales, Marketing, Customer Support, Customer Success, and Engineering.

• Design, build, test, maintain, and monitor Fabric Data Agents supporting business AI initiatives.

• Design, build, test, deploy, monitor, and support Fabric data pipelines, transformations, semantic models, and Power BI solutions.

• Triage pipeline failures, report defects, refresh issues, access problems, and data-quality incidents; perform root-cause analysis and maintain runbooks.

• Migrate business dashboards and datasets into governed Fabric and Power BI solutions.

• Build reports and validate measures and metrics across connected dashboards and source systems.

• Administer workspaces, permissions, deployment processes, service principals, monitoring, and lifecycle controls.

• Partner with business functions on requirements, data mapping, testing, release readiness, documentation, training, and adoption.

• Contribute to Analytics Center of Excellence standards, reusable patterns, governance, cataloging, and platform planning.

Your Toolkit:

• 6+ years in data engineering, analytics engineering, BI development, or a related enterprise data role.

• Strong SQL, Python, PySpark and hands-on experience with Microsoft Fabric and Power BI. Experience building and supporting ETL/ELT pipelines, transformations, validations, semantic models, and production reporting.

• Working knowledge of Fabric and Power BI security, permissions, workspace design, and deployment practices.

• Working knowledge of Microsoft AI ecosystem and Fabric Data Agent architecture, design and solutions.

• Strong troubleshooting, data-flow analysis, documentation, testing, and production-support skills.

• Ability to translate business requirements into scalable, governed, secure, and supportable analytics solutions.

• Effective collaboration across distributed teams.

• Preferred: experience Azure data services, PowerBI, Microsoft AI ecosystem, DevOps, APIs, data governance, and AI-ready analytics platforms.

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Our Commitment

Illumio believes that an environment of unique backgrounds, experiences, viewpoints, and individual contributions creates a culture of belonging, drives our future, and makes us stronger together in support of our customers and their success.

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For roles in San Francisco and Los Angeles: Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring, Illumio will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.