Plano Data Engineer - Production Support & Pipelines

Sage IT; Plano (TX); On-site; USD 100,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Sage IT in Plano, TX is seeking Data Engineers and Production Support specialists for a permanent on-site role. You will own ETL pipelines, data warehouses, and incident management, ensuring high availability and data integrity.

Responsibilities include building scalable data architectures, troubleshooting production issues, and collaborating with data science and software teams to deliver robust reporting solutions while adhering to governance standards.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Information Technology, or a related technical discipline.
• Progressive professional hands-on experience in data engineering, data warehousing, and production support operations.
• Strong, demonstrable operational proficiency in SQL, Python, ETL tools, and relational/NoSQL database management.
• Comprehensive working knowledge of big data processing frameworks and cloud data storage platforms.
• Strong analytical problem-solving skills and effective stakeholder communication capabilities.
• Proven ability to troubleshoot complex production bugs, manage incident lifecycles, and optimize query latency.
• Exceptional teamwork and cross-functional collaboration abilities across multicultural enterprise environments.
• Mandatory legal work authorization and physical availability for professional operations in Plano, Texas.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, optimize, and maintain scalable data pipelines, ETL workflows, and data warehousing architectures.
• Provide robust production support, monitor data workflows, and resolve operational incidents in real time.
• Investigate and troubleshoot database query performance, connection timeouts, and data loading failures.
• Collaborate proactively with data science, analytics, and software engineering squads to streamline data ingestion.
• Ensure strict adherence to data security, privacy standards, and regulatory compliance frameworks.
• Perform rigorous data validation, cleansing, and quality assurance checks across structured and unstructured datasets.
• Automate monitoring routines, alert notifications, and maintenance scripts to minimize system downtime.
• Maintain meticulous technical documentation, data lineage graphs, pipeline runbooks, and schema repositories.
• Participate actively in code reviews, architecture planning, and root-cause analysis (RCA) sessions.
• Coordinate with client stakeholders to gather data requirements and deliver actionable reporting solutions.

Skills

SQL

Python

ETL tools

Data warehousing

Big data processing

Cloud data storage

Data governance

Incident management

Stakeholder communication

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science / Data Science

Tools

Snowflake

dbt

Airflow

Kafka

Spark

Jira

Confluence

ServiceNow

Job description

Sage IT in Plano, TX is seeking Data Engineers and Production Support specialists for a permanent on-site role. You will own ETL pipelines, data warehouses, and incident management, ensuring high availability and data integrity.

Responsibilities include building scalable data architectures, troubleshooting production issues, and collaborating with data science and software teams to deliver robust reporting solutions while adhering to governance standards.