St. Paul, United States of America On-site Full-time USD 100,000 – 120,000 / year

Kimley-Horn is hiring a Senior Data Engineer

Responsibilities

  • Design and implement a Microsoft Fabric lakehouse + warehouse architecture on OneLake, with Bronze and Silver layers in the Lakehouse and curated Gold data products in the Warehouse.
  • Build and maintain ingestion, transformation, and publishing pipelines using Fabric and related Azure services, including Data Factory pipelines, Lakehouse, Warehouse, notebooks/Spark, and SQL.
  • Integrate data from key AEC systems—including project delivery, documents, financials, scheduling, and GIS/BIM-related sources—and develop repeatable onboarding patterns using incremental loads, CDC where appropriate, monitoring, alerting, and runbooks.
  • Publish trusted data products, metadata, and lineage that support AI use cases such as enterprise search, copilots, and retrieval-based applications.
  • Partner with IT and security to establish data quality, governance, access controls, data classification, lifecycle policies, and production DataOps practices.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience in data engineering, analytics engineering, or building production-grade data platforms and pipelines.
  • Strong SQL skills and experience with relational and analytical data modeling, transformation design, and curated datasets for downstream use.
  • Proficiency in Python and/or Spark, plus experience with orchestration tools such as Microsoft Fabric Data Factory pipelines or Azure Data Factory.
  • Experience supporting production data workloads, including incremental loading or CDC patterns, monitoring, CI/CD, governance, and collaboration across technical and business teams.

Nice to Have

  • Hands-on experience with Microsoft Fabric strongly preferred; equivalent experience with Azure-based lakehouse, warehouse, or modern data platform services will also be considered.
  • Experience implementing medallion architecture patterns in Microsoft Fabric.
  • Experience preparing enterprise data for AI or LLM-driven use cases, including metadata enrichment, chunking, embeddings workflows, or retrieval optimization.
  • Familiarity with Azure AI Search, vector or hybrid retrieval patterns, and secure enterprise search architectures.
  • Familiarity with data catalog, governance, and lineage tools such as Microsoft Purview or similar platforms.
  • AEC domain familiarity, including project delivery data, GIS, BIM/CAD metadata, and document workflows.

Work Arrangement

On-site — St. Paul, Minnesota (MN)

Additional Information

  • Partner with IT, security, and civil engineering leadership
  • Role involves building a Microsoft Fabric–based lakehouse + warehouse platform on OneLake
  • Design and implement data architecture with Bronze, Silver, and Gold layers
  • Build and maintain ingestion, transformation, and publishing pipelines
  • Integrate data from AEC systems including project delivery, documents, financials, scheduling, and GIS/BIM-related sources
  • Publish trusted data products for AI use cases such as enterprise search, copilots, and retrieval-based applications
  • Establish data quality, governance, access controls, data classification, lifecycle policies, and production DataOps practices
Required Skills
Data EngineeringPythonApache Spark
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Posted 3 months ago