Graph Data Platform Lead — Senior Data Engineer

LaSalle Network; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 135,000 - 155,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision benefits

401(k) plan

Annual bonus eligible

Job summary

LaSalle Network is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to lead the buildout of a graph-backed enterprise data platform for a major client in Chicago. This product-minded role involves architecting the ingestion layer, graph modeling, and APIs to unify resilience data across customers and cloud environments.

You will own the platform end-to-end, from data ingestion to governance, delivering scalable pipelines and production-grade integrations.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field.
• 5+ years designing data engineering, backend data systems, or platform engineering.
• Experience building/expanding data platforms in production environments.
• Experience with graph, network, or highly relational data structures.
• Cloud-native experience (Azure preferred).
• Experience with integrations and connectors; knowledge of Docker/Kubernetes is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Architect and build a next-gen data platform with graph DB, relational storage, and data lake components.
• Design scalable ETL/ELT pipelines from various sources using managed connectors.
• Develop entity resolution pipelines to unify records into a graph model.
• Create graph data models capturing dependencies, recovery sequences, and org relationships.
• Develop temporal/bitemporal models for historical replay and auditing.
• Establish governance, quality, observability, lineage, and security practices.
• Build backend services and APIs for graph queries and data access.
• Support containerized deployment across cloud and on-prem environments.
• Partner with product/engineering leadership to shape platform roadmap.

Skills

SQL proficiency

Graph databases

Entity resolution

Python/Java

ETL/ELT

Airflow/Dagster/dbt

Cloud experience

Containerization

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering/IS

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Cypher/Gremlin

dbt

Job description

LaSalle Network is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to lead the buildout of a graph-backed enterprise data platform for a major client in Chicago. This product-minded role involves architecting the ingestion layer, graph modeling, and APIs to unify resilience data across customers and cloud environments.

You will own the platform end-to-end, from data ingestion to governance, delivering scalable pipelines and production-grade integrations.