Data Engineer: Build AI-Ready Data Pipelines

Darley-; Itasca (IL); On-site; USD 75,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

PTO

Paid Holidays

Tuition Reimbursement

Health & Wellness Reimbursement

Medical

Dental

Vision

Life & Disability insurance

HSA with Darley contribution

FSA

401K/Roth with match and profit分享

Job summary

W.S. Darley & Co in Itasca, IL seeks a Data Engineer to turn business data into a trusted foundation for decisions, automation, and AI initiatives. You will design, develop, and implement data systems that collect and process data according to company needs.

They will collaborate with infrastructure, reporting, security and AI colleagues and business stakeholders to deliver reliable data products for dashboards and analytics, while ensuring data quality and governance.

Qualifications

• 2–5 years of experience in data engineering or related field.
• Experience building and maintaining production data pipelines.
• Experience integrating data from ERP, CRM, manufacturing and financial systems.
• Strong SQL and Python proficiency.
• Ability to translate requirements into scalable data solutions.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain SQL- and Python-based data pipelines that ingest, validate, and transform data from business systems, APIs, files, and approved external sources.
• Help implement warehouse structures and dimensional models, including reusable tables, documented relationships, and consistent business definitions.
• Partner with infrastructure colleagues on secure connectivity, access, environments, scheduling, monitoring, and recovery requirements.
• Implement data quality checks, reconciliation, error handling, version control, and documentation so data products remain reliable and maintainable.
• Work with reporting colleagues to deliver curated data sets and semantic models for dashboards and self-service analytics.
• Translate business questions into data requirements and prioritize useful, achievable solutions with stakeholders.
• Collaborate with external specialists on architecture and implementation patterns, then maintain and extend the solutions internally.

Skills

SQL

Python

Data pipelines

ETL/ELT

Data warehousing

APIs

Data modeling

Data validation

Communication

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Engineering, Data Science, Mathematics, Statistics, or a related field

Advanced degree preferred

Job description

W.S. Darley & Co in Itasca, IL seeks a Data Engineer to turn business data into a trusted foundation for decisions, automation, and AI initiatives. You will design, develop, and implement data systems that collect and process data according to company needs.

They will collaborate with infrastructure, reporting, security and AI colleagues and business stakeholders to deliver reliable data products for dashboards and analytics, while ensuring data quality and governance.