Senior Data Engineer
Michels Corporation2 months ago
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain batch, streaming, and event-driven ingestion pipelines connecting enterprise source systems to the lakehouse.
- Develop transformation logic and orchestrated workflows that produce usable, governed datasets.
- Design and optimize data assets supporting analytics, operational reporting, downstream applications, and AI-ready consumption.
- Implement validation checks, monitoring, alerting, lineage, and data quality controls for observable pipelines and data products.
- Tune pipeline, storage, and compute workloads for performance, scalability, and cost efficiency.
- Establish engineering standards and reference architectures for a lean data engineering team.
- Lead technical design reviews and mentor engineers through pairing, code review, and technical guidance.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent hands-on experience.
- At least 5 years of production experience in data engineering, data platform engineering, analytics engineering, software engineering, or a related discipline.
- Experience building and operating large-scale cloud data platforms such as Databricks, Snowflake, Microsoft Fabric, or BigQuery.
- Proficiency with SQL, Python, Spark or similar distributed processing frameworks, version control, automated testing, CI/CD, and streaming ingestion.
- Experience building reliable and observable pipelines with monitoring, lineage, and data quality controls within enterprise governance, privacy, and security requirements.
Tech Stack
Categories
Data Engineering
About Michels Corporation
Michels Corporation builds and maintains energy, communications, and transportation infrastructure for utilities, pipeline operators, municipalities, and industrial customers. Its businesses span pipeline construction, horizontal directional drilling, tunneling, power delivery, civil construction, and network and renewable projects under the Michels Family of Companies. Founded in 1959 and headquartered in Brownsville, Wisconsin, it is privately held and operates across North America and select international markets.