A professional services organization in New Jersey is seeking an Applications Lead in Bergen County to provide hands-on technical leadership for a data analytics support environment. This role focuses on complex incident resolution, data-intensive troubleshooting, and performance optimization across Azure-based production platforms.

About the Opportunity:
- Shift: Day shift
- Schedule: Monday to Friday
- Hours: Standard business
- Setting: Hybrid (Tuesday to Thursday are mandatory onsite)
Responsibilities:
- Serve as the escalation point for complex application and data platform support issues.
- Troubleshoot production incidents involving large datasets, data transformations, and performance bottlenecks.
- Partner with engineering and product teams to drive root cause analysis and durable fixes.
- Guide support analysts on technical resolution approaches and best practices.
- Support end-to-end troubleshooting across data pipelines, reporting flows, and Azure-based analytics environments.
Qualifications:
- 8+ years of experience in application support, technical lead, or data platform troubleshooting roles
- Hands-on experience with Azure data engineering and Python
- Strong experience with Databricks and PySpark
- Strong T-SQL and data warehouse background, including SQL development and performance tuning
- Experience troubleshooting ETL pipelines and data flows end-to-end
- Experience working with large-scale data sets and diagnosing performance issues
- Strong communication skills with the ability to explain complex technical issues clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders
Desired Skills:
- Experience with Azure Data Factory
- Familiarity with ADLS file formats such as Parquet, Delta, CSV, and Excel
- Exposure to Power BI workspace concepts
- Experience with Alteryx
- Advanced Excel skills, including pivot tables, formulas, lookups, and VBA macros
- Familiarity with SAP or Oracle ERP technical environments
- Basic ABAP or UNIX familiarity
