Data Engineer I — Hybrid Pipelines & Growth

Summit Utilities, Inc.; Fayetteville (AR); Hybrid; USD 55,000 - 85,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision benefits

Job summary

Summit Utilities, Inc. is seeking a Data Engineer I to support development, maintenance, and enhancement of enterprise data pipelines in a collaborative, enterprise-scale environment.

This entry-level role reports to senior engineers and DBAs and offers hands-on growth within a hybrid work setting in Arkansas offices. Ideal candidates have 1–3 years of ETL, SQL, and data integration experience, with a strong ownership mindset and meticulous attention to data quality as they help ensure reliable

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related field.
• 1–3 years of experience in data engineering, ETL development, or data integration.
• Experience building or maintaining data pipelines using orchestration tools and/or custom scripting.
• Practical experience with relational databases, including writing and tuning SQL, plus exposure to cloud-based data environments and collaborative source control.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain scalable, reliable data pipelines and integration workflows across on-prem and cloud systems.
• Ingest, transform, and stage structured and semi-structured data into enterprise data repositories; write and optimize SQL queries.
• Support data quality with validation checks, alerts, logging, and monitoring; partner with analysts to validate datasets.
• Document data sources, pipeline logic, and transformations in shared repositories; manage code with source control.
• Participate in standups, sprint planning, and on-call rotations; respond to data tickets and identify improvement opportunities.

Skills

Data orchestration

SQL scripting

Data integration

Analytical skills

Documentation

Team collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/IS/Engineering

Tools

Low-code platforms

SQL databases

Cloud data environments

Source control

Job description

Summit Utilities, Inc. is seeking a Data Engineer I to support development, maintenance, and enhancement of enterprise data pipelines in a collaborative, enterprise-scale environment.

This entry-level role reports to senior engineers and DBAs and offers hands-on growth within a hybrid work setting in Arkansas offices. Ideal candidates have 1–3 years of ETL, SQL, and data integration experience, with a strong ownership mindset and meticulous attention to data quality as they help ensure reliable