Data Engineer II: Build Scalable Data Pipelines & Apps

Gilbane Building Company; Providence (RI); On-site; USD 140,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health and welfare benefits

Profit-sharing/401k plan

Gilbane University

Job summary

Gilbane Building Company in Providence, RI is hiring a data engineer to design, build, test, deploy, and support data pipelines, models, and reusable platform components. You will translate business and analytical requirements into secure, dependable data solutions to improve accessibility and quality.

You will own end-to-end data solutions, optimize ETL/ELT pipelines, and collaborate with analytics, BI, data science, architecture, product, and business teams to deliver data products at scale.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems, engineering, mathematics, statistics, or a related field.
• 3–5 years of relevant experience in data engineering, software engineering, BI, analytics engineering, or data platform development.
• Experience building and supporting production ETL/ELT pipelines, data models, warehouses, lakes, or lakehouses.

Responsibilities

• Own defined data engineering solutions from requirements and design through deployment, monitoring, and ongoing support.
• Build and optimize ETL/ELT pipelines, integrations, data models, APIs, and batch or near-real-time workflows.
• Translate business rules and source-system behavior into maintainable technical designs and mappings.
• Implement automated testing, reconciliation, observability, alerting, metadata, and lineage for assigned solutions.
• Tune data pipelines, storage, and queries to support reliability, scalability, performance, and cost effectiveness.
• Troubleshoot production incidents, conduct root-cause analysis, remediate defects, and prevent recurrence.
• Apply CI/CD, version control, code review, documentation, and security/privacy/governance standards.
• Partner with analytics, BI, data science, architecture, product, and business teams to deliver usable data products.
• Identify opportunities to automate manual workflows and create reusable engineering patterns.
• Mentor junior engineers through technical guidance, code review, and knowledge sharing.

Skills

Strong SQL

Programming languages

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS or related field

Tools

Python

Scala

Java

Job description

Gilbane Building Company in Providence, RI is hiring a data engineer to design, build, test, deploy, and support data pipelines, models, and reusable platform components. You will translate business and analytical requirements into secure, dependable data solutions to improve accessibility and quality.

You will own end-to-end data solutions, optimize ETL/ELT pipelines, and collaborate with analytics, BI, data science, architecture, product, and business teams to deliver data products at scale.