Wavestone
Wavestone
Wavestone is a global consulting firm focused on strategic transformation, helping organizations address complex business and technology challenges. Its work covers IT strategy, data and AI advisory, cybersecurity, sustainability, and regulation and risk management. With more than 5,500 employees across 17 countries, Wavestone brings together multidisciplinary expertise to support clients from strategic planning through implementation.

Senior AI Data Engineering Consultant – Microsoft Azure (Remote Romania)

Build Azure data platforms, pipelines, and AI solutions as a Senior AI Data Engineering Consultant at Wavestone. Advise clients on modern architectures, Retrieval-Augmented Generation, and cloud data strategy.

Description

  • Build modern data platforms and engineering solutions, including pipelines, lakehouse architectures, semantic models, and data products
  • Connect data engineering with AI engineering through RAG architectures, Conversational BI, AI-enabled data products, and LLM applications
  • Create and integrate AI agents for pipeline development, data quality, automation, monitoring, and self-service analytics
  • Deliver scalable data and AI solutions with Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Fabric, Databricks, Snowflake, and dbt
  • Architect the full data lifecycle from source integration and transformation through governance, quality assurance, and consumption
  • Guide clients on technology choices, target architectures, migration plans, platform modernization, and AI adoption in data strategies
  • Lead workstreams or projects with practical execution, technical quality, and measurable business outcomes
  • Share best practices, reusable assets, technical standards, and innovation initiatives across the Data & AI portfolio

Requirements

  • Demonstrated professional experience in data engineering, cloud data platforms, or Data & AI consulting
  • Experience in consulting, delivery, or project-based work is preferred
  • Hands-on expertise building data pipelines, data models, lakehouse architectures, or cloud data warehouses
  • Strong SQL and Python or PySpark skills
  • Practical knowledge of ETL/ELT, APIs, data quality frameworks, CI/CD, and Infrastructure as Code
  • Experience with Microsoft Fabric, Azure Data Factory, Azure Synapse Analytics, Databricks, Snowflake, dbt, Power BI, and Microsoft Power Platform
  • Understanding of how modern data platforms support AI, generative AI, and advanced analytics
  • Experience with LLM applications, RAG, agentic AI, Azure AI Foundry, MLOps, or LLMOps is highly desirable
  • Ability to connect business needs, data platform capabilities, AI use cases, and operational requirements through sound architecture
  • Structured and pragmatic approach to work
  • Strong communication and stakeholder management abilities
  • German proficiency at a minimum C1 level
  • English-language proficiency
  • Willingness to travel to client sites when required

Benefits

  • Personalized career development through the PERSONAL GROWTH MODEL
  • More than 200 annual training days through the Academy
  • Certification training courses
  • German language courses
  • Coaching and leadership development culture
  • Flexible mobile and remote work under the Mobile Work Policy
  • Vacation entitlement tailored to seniority and increasing up to 30 days
  • Flexible working hours
  • Private health insurance
  • Monthly benefits allowance through a multi-benefits platform for meals, gifts, culture, holidays, and sports memberships
  • Mindfulness training and recurring community exchange
  • Networking and celebration events

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