Data Engineer: Build AI-Ready Data Pipelines

Koch; Wichita (KS); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Koch Engineered Solutions in Wichita, Kansas is seeking a Data Engineer to own data products, build ELT pipelines, and deliver scalable analytics and AI-ready solutions across the IT capability. This role emphasizes reliability, stakeholder collaboration, and modern data engineering practices.

The role requires working with diverse data sources (ERPs, APIs, files), applying dimensional modeling, and contributing to platform maturity.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience building data pipelines in a cloud data warehouse environment.
• SQL skills and experience with cloud data platforms such as Snowflake, Redshift, BigQuery, or Databricks.
• Experience using dbt or a comparable transformation framework with version control and testing.
• Working knowledge of cloud services and modern software engineering practices (Git, CI/CD).
• Experience applying dimensional data modeling and translating business processes into scalable data structures.
• Experience partnering with business stakeholders to define requirements and ensure data accuracy.

Responsibilities

• Own the delivery and ongoing success of data products, ensuring reliability, usability, and production readiness.
• Build and maintain ELT pipelines across staging, intermediate, and mart layers with modular practices.
• Engage with business stakeholders to validate logic and ensure data models reflect real-world operations.
• Integrate data from ERPs, APIs, file feeds, and cloud services, handling entity resolution and reconciliation.
• Structure data products to be AI-ready with clear lineage and semantic naming.
• Apply AI-assisted tools to accelerate delivery and improve code quality.
• Establish risk-based data quality controls to prevent unreliable data reaching consumers.
• Contribute to platform reliability via monitoring, automation, and operational support.
• Participate in legacy platform migration while preserving data integrity.
• Strengthen team capability through code reviews, pairing, and reusable patterns.

Skills

Data pipelines

SQL

CI/CD

Python

Stakeholder collaboration

Tools

Snowflake

Redshift

BigQuery

Databricks

dbt

Power BI

Job description

Koch Engineered Solutions in Wichita, Kansas is seeking a Data Engineer to own data products, build ELT pipelines, and deliver scalable analytics and AI-ready solutions across the IT capability. This role emphasizes reliability, stakeholder collaboration, and modern data engineering practices.

The role requires working with diverse data sources (ERPs, APIs, files), applying dimensional modeling, and contributing to platform maturity.