Senior Cloud Data Engineer: Lakehouse & Medallion Architect

VSE Aviation; Florida; On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

VSE Aviation seeks an experienced enterprise Data Engineer (6-10+ years) to design, implement, and support a cloud-based Data Lake/Lakehouse for the organization in Florida.

You will drive data architecture, build scalable pipelines, and collaborate with security and governance to ensure data quality and compliance across enterprise assets.

This role requires strong SQL and hands-on experience with Snowflake, Microsoft Fabric, Databricks, Informatica, and Azure Data Factory.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, MIS, engineering, or related field; or 3 extra years of relevant work experience.
• 6+ years of enterprise data engineering experience.
• Strong proficiency in SQL.
• Experience with Snowflake, Microsoft Fabric, or Databricks.
• Data governance, data systems architecture, and data modeling.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and evolve the enterprise Data Lake/Lakehouse architecture.
• Develop a scalable Medallion Architecture (Bronze, Silver, Gold) for trusted data assets.
• Build robust ingestion pipelines for structured, semi-structured, and streaming data.
• Create ELT/ETL pipelines using cloud-native tools like Informatica and Azure Data Factory.
• Design dimensional models and semantic layers to support BI and analytics.
• Establish data quality, lineage, cataloging, and metadata management practices.
• Optimize data storage, query performance, and workload management.
• Define CI/CD pipelines and Infrastructure-as-Code for data solutions.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to translate data requirements into scalable solutions.
• Enforce enterprise data engineering standards with technical and business teams.
• Work with security/governance to implement RBAC, privacy, and compliance controls.

Skills

SQL

Data Governance

Data Modeling

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience

Tools

Snowflake

Microsoft Fabric

Databricks

Informatica

Azure Data Factory

Job description

VSE Aviation seeks an experienced enterprise Data Engineer (6-10+ years) to design, implement, and support a cloud-based Data Lake/Lakehouse for the organization in Florida.

You will drive data architecture, build scalable pipelines, and collaborate with security and governance to ensure data quality and compliance across enterprise assets.

This role requires strong SQL and hands-on experience with Snowflake, Microsoft Fabric, Databricks, Informatica, and Azure Data Factory.