AI-Driven Data Engineer: Pipelines & Governance

GEI Consultants, Inc; Denver (CO); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid Work Schedules

401(k) Plan

Tuition Reimbursement

Well-Being Program

Paid Holidays & PTO

Career Development & Training

Job summary

GEI Consultants, Inc is seeking a Data Engineer to design, build, and maintain enterprise data pipelines powering AI solutions and dashboards. You will ingest, transform, and deliver data across systems, while ensuring quality, governance, and secure access.

You will work with AI engineers to align data models, contracts, and retrieval patterns, supporting scalable, production-ready data infrastructure across the organization.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of data engineering experience building and operating production data pipelines.
• Proficiency in Python and SQL; PySpark preferred.
• Experience with Azure data services and data governance.
• Knowledge of data modeling, schema design, and indexing for analytics and AI workloads.
• Experience with CI/CD practices for data pipelines (Terraform, Azure DevOps).
• Experience with Databricks, Delta Lake, and Unity Catalog is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain data pipelines ingesting, transforming, and delivering enterprise data for AI solutions and business apps.
• Develop and manage integrations across enterprise data sources using APIs, Graph connectors, event-driven and batch/streaming patterns.
• Build and maintain data stores and indexing infrastructure supporting RAG and AI patterns.
• Implement data quality, validation, and lineage controls for data feeding AI workflows.
• Support and optimize data models underpinning Power BI dashboards and AI analytics.
• Collaborate with AI Engineers to define data contracts and meet schema, latency, and freshness requirements.
• Instrument data pipelines for monitoring, alerts, cost control, and performance optimization.
• Implement data governance and security controls including access management, encryption, and privacy compliance.
• Identify data-related risks and coordinate mitigation with architecture and platform teams.

Skills

Python

SQL

PySpark

Azure Data Factory

Azure Synapse Analytics

Azure Data Lake Storage

Azure SQL

Databricks Delta Lake Unity Catalog

Data Modeling

Big Data

CI/CD

Terraform

Azure DevOps

Data Governance

Security Best Practices

Tools

Power BI

Graph Connectors

APIs

Job description

GEI Consultants, Inc is seeking a Data Engineer to design, build, and maintain enterprise data pipelines powering AI solutions and dashboards. You will ingest, transform, and deliver data across systems, while ensuring quality, governance, and secure access.

You will work with AI engineers to align data models, contracts, and retrieval patterns, supporting scalable, production-ready data infrastructure across the organization.