Senior Cloud Data Engineer - Lakehouse & Data Governance

VSE Aviation; Phoenix (AZ); On-site; USD 90,000 - 135,000; Full time

Job summary

VSE Aviation seeks an experienced Data Engineer to design and maintain a cloud-based Data Lake/Lakehouse, implementing Medallion architecture and scalable ELT/ETL pipelines. You will work with Snowflake, Microsoft Fabric, Informatica, and Azure Data Factory to deliver trusted data assets and analytics-ready data models.

The role involves collaborating with business stakeholders, establishing governance standards, and ensuring data quality across enterprise data domains while adhering to security

Qualifications

• 6+ years in an enterprise data engineering role.
• Strong SQL proficiency and data modeling experience.
• Experience with Snowflake and/or Microsoft Fabric and data lake/ lakehouse architectures.
• Knowledge of data governance, lineage, and metadata management.
• Experience building scalable ELT/ETL pipelines in cloud environments.
• Familiarity with CI/CD practices for data solutions.

Responsibilities

• Design and evolve enterprise Data Lake/Lakehouse architecture.
• Implement Medallion architecture (Bronze/Silver/Gold) for trusted data assets.
• Develop ingestion frameworks for structured, semi-structured, and streaming data.
• Build scalable pipelines using cloud-native tools and orchestration (Informatica, Azure Data Factory).
• Create dimensional models and semantic layers for BI and analytics.
• Enforce data quality, lineage, cataloging, and metadata practices.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to standardize data domains and requirements.
• Support security, privacy, and governance controls.

Skills

SQL

Snowflake

Databricks

Microsoft Fabric

Data Modeling

Data Governance

ETL/ELT

Cloud Data Pipelines

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science / MIS / engineering or related field

3+ years of related work experience in lieu of degree

Tools

Informatica

Azure Data Factory

MS SQL Server

Oracle

Azure DevOps

GitHub Actions

Power BI

Kafka / Event Hubs

Job description

VSE Aviation seeks an experienced Data Engineer to design and maintain a cloud-based Data Lake/Lakehouse, implementing Medallion architecture and scalable ELT/ETL pipelines. You will work with Snowflake, Microsoft Fabric, Informatica, and Azure Data Factory to deliver trusted data assets and analytics-ready data models.

The role involves collaborating with business stakeholders, establishing governance standards, and ensuring data quality across enterprise data domains while adhering to security