Senior Data Engineer
Jones Lang LaSalle Incorporated22 days ago
Westmont, IL, USASenior
Base Salary
$150k - $150k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and build governed information infrastructure, data management processes, data lakes, APIs, and modern target-state data architecture.
- Build systems and batch or streaming pipelines that ingest, cleanse, normalize, and structure structured and unstructured data.
- Develop AI-ready pipelines supporting document parsing, chunking, embeddings, vector search, RAG, retrieval, evaluation, and agentic workflows.
- Develop API and MCP-based foundations that provide AI agents with governed access to enterprise data.
- Implement data quality, lineage, observability, evaluation, governance, row- and column-level security, and data masking frameworks.
- Design and maintain a governed Databricks Unity Catalog semantic layer with curated views, certified metrics, centralized business logic, documentation, and versioning.
- Configure and tune Databricks Genie spaces for accurate natural-language querying and validate outputs against source-of-truth systems.
- Partner with Finance, IT, data science, business teams, architects, product managers, software engineers, and external professionals to define requirements and move prototypes into production.
- Provide technical guidance and develop proofs of concept to validate proposed solutions and support migration to modern platforms.
Requirements
- Hands-on experience with Databricks, Delta Lake, Unity Catalog, Spark SQL, PySpark, Workflows, SQL, and Python.
- Demonstrated experience building Databricks semantic layers using Unity Catalog views, metric views, and/or Genie configuration.
- Experience building batch and streaming pipelines and lakehouse or medallion data models.
- Experience developing REST APIs with FastAPI or Flask and OAuth-based authentication and authorization.
- Working knowledge of embeddings, vector search, RAG, LLM agents, context engineering, and AI evaluation.
- Experience with enterprise data governance, lineage, data quality, and security.
- Experience with cloud platforms, preferably Azure, and CI/CD.
- Preferred experience with Databricks Genie or similar text-to-SQL tools, accuracy benchmarking, MCP, or agent frameworks for enterprise data access.
Benefits
- 401(k) plan with matching company contributions.
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision care.
- Paid parental leave at 100% of salary.
- Paid time off and company holidays.
- Early access to earned wages through Daily Pay.
- On-site work arrangement in Westmont, Illinois.
- Visa sponsorship is not provided; candidates must be authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship.
About Jones Lang LaSalle Incorporated
JLL is a global commercial real estate services and investment management firm serving occupiers and investors. It provides property and facilities management, leasing and tenant representation, capital markets, project and development services, workplace strategy, sustainability, and real estate technology and analytics, with a fee- and commission-based advisory, outsourcing, transaction, and management-fee model. Headquartered in Chicago, it is a public company listed on the NYSE (JLL).