Data Engineer

Dell Technologies Inc.; Round Rock (TX); On-site; USD 146,000 - 243,000; Full time

Job summary

Dell Technologies Inc. is seeking a senior data engineer to build and operate the ingestion pipelines that bring external data into the Knowledge & Intelligence layer.

You will own contracts with upstream teams, develop connectors, ensure freshness SLAs, and maintain a reliable landing zone.

This greenfield role emphasizes high-volume data, cost-aware partitioning, and a provenance-driven approach, with strong Python as the core tool.

Qualifications

• Strong Python — your primary language for building and operating pipelines, connectors, and tooling.
• Hands-on data sourcing and ingestion in complex environments.
• Proven track record landing upstream sources into a data lake reliably.
• Experience handling high-volume data with cost, partitioning and performance focus.
• Provenance mindset — every record carries its origin.
• Strong collaboration with upstream domain teams.

Responsibilities

• Negotiate schema, freshness SLAs, and change notices with upstream domain teams.
• Build and operate connectors and change-data-capture that land upstream sources into the lake.
• Own the raw landing layer — structure, partitioning, and a clean handoff to the medallion pipeline.
• Know when a source breaks, drifts, or goes stale — before anything downstream does.
• Nothing lands ungrounded; provenance travels with every record from the moment it arrives.

Skills

Python

Data engineering

Data ingestion

Stakeholder collaboration

Tools

ETL tooling

Job description

Build the pipelines that bring the outside world into the Knowledge & Intelligence layer — the governed knowledge spine that grounds AI agents on verified, provenance-backed facts. You own how data gets in: the contracts with upstream domain teams, the connectors and change-data-capture that move it, and the landing zone it arrives in. This is hands‑on data engineering where everything downstream depends on what you bring in — get the source contracts and ingestion solid and every system that reads this data can trust its inputs.

What You'll Own

• Source & publishing contracts. Negotiate schema, freshness SLAs, and change‑notice with upstream domain teams — and hold them to it. These contracts are what keep the layer trustworthy.
• Connectors & ingestion. Build and operate the connectors and change‑data‑capture that land upstream sources into the lake, reliably and on their freshness SLA.
• The landing zone. Own the raw landing layer — structure, partitioning, and a clean handoff to the medallion pipeline.
• Ingestion observability. Know when a source breaks, drifts, or goes stale — before anything downstream does.
• Grounding discipline. Nothing lands ungrounded; provenance travels with every record from the moment it arrives.

Why This Role?

• You own the front door to the entire layer — every grounded fact starts as something you sourced and landed. Get ingestion right and everything downstream can trust its inputs.
• This is a greenfield role — you're standing up the sourcing patterns and the contracts from scratch, not inheriting a maintenance queue.
• High leverage on reliability — the freshness and trustworthiness of the whole layer rests on the inputs you bring in.
• Senior / staff‑level, hands‑on depth in data sourcing and ingestion — the core discipline of this role.
• Strong Python — your primary language for building and operating pipelines, connectors, and tooling.
• A track record of landing diverse upstream sources into a data lake reliably and on their freshness SLA.
• Proven experience handling data at high volume, with real attention to cost, partitioning, and performance.
• A provenance mindset — “where did this come from” travels with every record you land.
• Strong collaboration and stakeholder communication with upstream domain teams.

Ingestion takes whatever shape the source needs — depth in one or two matters more than all of them:

Compensation

Dell is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The salary range for this position is USD $187,850 - USD $243,100

Benefits and Perks of working at Dell Technologies

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