Principal Data Engineer: Azure Data Platform Lead

RB Global, Inc.; Westchester (IL); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

IAA seeks a Principal Data Engineer to be the technical authority across our data engineering function. This hands‑on leader sets architecture, builds the most complex data pipelines, and mentors engineers to raise the bar across the organization.

You will own Azure data and analytics patterns, and drive standards for production‑grade pipelines, semantic models, and data products powering dashboards, forecasting, and AI workloads.

Qualifications

• This role is a hands‑on senior/principal data engineer responsible for production data platforms at scale.
• Deep expertise with Azure BI/data stack, including Fabric, Synapse, Power BI, and semantic modeling.
• Expert-level Python and SQL with strong software engineering fundamentals (testing, CI/CD, version control).
• Minimum 12+ years building enterprise data platforms and leading technical initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Set and evolve the technical architecture for the data platform on Azure stack.
• Personally design and build the most complex data pipelines and reusable components.
• Define engineering standards across architecture, quality, performance, and governance.
• Lead design and implementation of data pipelines, semantic models, and data products.
• Build production‑grade data pipelines and infrastructure used by data scientists.
• Diagnose and resolve performance, reliability, and scalability challenges across BI/data workloads.
• Drive strategy and execution for Azure BI tools and technologies; evaluate new tools.
• Mentor data engineers and analytics engineers; perform design reviews.
• Translate complex business problems into scalable data solutions for stakeholders.

Skills

Azure

Azure Synapse Analytics

Power BI

Python

SQL

Data architecture

CI/CD

Version control

Semantic modeling

Microsoft Fabric

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Microsoft Fabric

Azure data and analytics services

Job description

IAA seeks a Principal Data Engineer to be the technical authority across our data engineering function. This hands‑on leader sets architecture, builds the most complex data pipelines, and mentors engineers to raise the bar across the organization.

You will own Azure data and analytics patterns, and drive standards for production‑grade pipelines, semantic models, and data products powering dashboards, forecasting, and AI workloads.