Data Factory Engineer (Microsoft Fabric/Databricks)

Location: Naples, Italy; hybrid working model with 2 days per week remotely. Right to work in Italy required.

Gross annual salary: €38,000–€45,000 gross per year, paid over 14 monthly installments.

Company

hirify.global is a brand of MSC Cruises operating in the travel and hospitality sector.

What you will do

• Design, build, test, deploy, and maintain backend data pipelines for ingestion, transformation, orchestration, and delivery across on-premises and cloud environments.
• Develop ETL/ELT solutions for relational databases, enterprise data warehouses, flat files, APIs, scheduling tools, and existing integration technologies.
• Contribute to the Microsoft Fabric and Databricks target platform using Lakehouse patterns, OneLake, Fabric Data Factory, notebooks, Spark, Delta Lake, workflows, and SQL endpoints.
• Implement reusable, metadata-driven and configuration-driven pipelines with incremental processing, change data capture, schema evolution, partitioning, and medallion-style data layers.
• Build automated data quality, reconciliation, lineage, logging, alerting, testing, monitoring, and incident-management controls.
• Optimize pipeline and storage performance, scalability, resiliency, and cost efficiency while participating in Agile delivery and continuous improvement.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related discipline, or equivalent professional experience.
• 5–7 years of professional experience in Data Engineering, backend data integration, ETL/ELT development, or enterprise Data Platform delivery within complex environments.
• Strong SQL skills covering data analysis, query optimization, data manipulation, dimensional or relational modelling, and troubleshooting of large data workloads.
• Hands-on programming and scripting experience, preferably with Python and PySpark; Java or Scala knowledge is an advantage.
• Experience with on-premises data integration and database technologies, including relevant exposure to Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, SSIS, enterprise schedulers, file-based interfaces, APIs, or comparable technologies.
• Understanding of modern cloud and Lakehouse engineering patterns, with practical exposure to Microsoft Fabric and/or Databricks.
• Mandatory experience with Git-based repositories and standard CI/CD procedures, including branching, pull requests, automated testing, controlled promotion, and repeatable deployment pipelines.
• Understanding of DataOps and software engineering practices including modular design, reusable components, coding standards, peer review, test automation, infrastructure/configuration as code, observability, and release management.
• Experience implementing data quality checks, reconciliation controls, logging, monitoring, alerting, and operational support for production data pipelines.
• Understanding of data security, privacy, access control, secrets management, and governance requirements.
• Ability to perform root-cause analysis, balance delivery speed with reliability, and work effectively in Agile, cross-functional, and multi-vendor teams.
• Fluent English, written and spoken.

Nice to have

• Italian or additional languages.
• Knowledge of MSC internal tools, Data Platform components, development standards, operational processes, business terminology, and existing data flows.
• Certifications in Microsoft Fabric, Microsoft Azure, Databricks, data engineering, or DevOps engineering.

Culture & Benefits

• Permanent contract under the applicable Italian collective labour agreement.
• Hybrid work with 2 remote days per week and flexible working hours.
• €8 meal vouchers for each on-site working day.
• Welfare and wellbeing initiatives, health insurance, employee assistance, productivity award, learning opportunities, and career development support.
• Discounts and partnerships within the MSC group, with an inclusive and diverse working environment.