Senior Data Engineer

Michels Corporation; Madison (WI); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Michels Corporation is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to build the trusted data foundation powering analytics, reporting, and AI across the Michels family of companies. This senior individual contributor role designs and operates lakehouse pipelines and reusable data products, mentoring engineers and shaping standards.

You will own complex work from design to production support, contributing to patterns, automation, and observability while working under the IT Manager, Data Platform &

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or equivalent hands‑on experience.
• 5+ years of production experience in data engineering or related fields.
• Experience with large‑scale cloud data platforms (Databricks, Snowflake, Fabric, BigQuery).
• Proficiency with SQL, Python, Spark, and modern engineering practices (CI/CD, testing).
• Experience building observable pipelines with monitoring, lineage, and data quality controls.

Responsibilities

• Build batch, streaming, and event‑driven ingestion pipelines connecting source systems to the lakehouse.
• Develop transformation logic and orchestrated workflows for usable datasets.
• Design and optimize data assets to support analytics, reporting, and AI readiness.
• Instrument pipelines with validation, monitoring, and alerting to detect issues quickly.
• Tune pipelines for performance, scalability, and cost efficiency.
• Establish engineering standards and reference architectures to scale a lean team.
• Lead design reviews and mentor engineers through pairing and guidance.

Skills

Data engineering

Python

SQL

Spark

CI/CD

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Databricks

Snowflake

Microsoft Fabric

BigQuery

Job description

Improving America’s infrastructure isn’t for the weak. It takes grit, determination, and hard work to execute high impact projects. Michels Corporation engages 10,000 people and 18,000 pieces of heavy equipment in our insatiable drive to be the best. Our work improves lives. Find out how a career as a Senior Data Engineer can change yours.

The Senior Data Engineer builds the trusted data foundation that powers analytics, reporting, operational insight, and AI across the Michels Family of Companies. As a senior individual contributor on the Enterprise Intelligence team, this person builds and operates lakehouse pipelines and reusable data products and helps shape the engineering standards that turn raw source data into valuable, durable enterprise assets. This is a hands‑on role that owns complex work from design through production support and helps a lean team scale through patterns, automation, and observability. This role mentors engineers and provides technical leadership within delivery work. This role reports to the IT Manager, Data Platform & Engineering and is a member of the Information Technology organization.

Key Responsibilities:

• Build and maintain batch, streaming, and event-driven ingestion pipelines that reliably connect enterprise source systems to the lakehouse.
• Develop transformation logic and orchestrated workflows that turn raw source data into usable, governed datasets.
• Design and optimize data assets that support analytics, operational reporting, downstream applications, and AI‑ready consumption.
• Instrument pipelines and data products with validation checks, monitoring, and alerting so data and pipeline issues are detected and resolved quickly.
• Tune pipeline, storage, and compute workloads for performance, scalability, and cost efficiency.
• Establish engineering standards and reference architectures that allow a lean team to scale responsibly.
• Lead technical design reviews and mentor engineers through pairing, code review, and technical guidance.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent hands‑on experience.
• 5+ years of production experience in data engineering, data platform engineering, analytics engineering, software engineering, or a related discipline.
• Proven experience building and operating large‑scale cloud data platforms such as Databricks, Snowflake, Microsoft Fabric, or BigQuery.
• Proficiency with SQL, Python, Spark or similar distributed processing frameworks, and modern engineering practices including version control, automated testing, CI/CD, and streaming ingestion.
• Experience building reliable, observable pipelines with monitoring, lineage, and data quality controls that operate within enterprise governance, privacy, and security requirements.

AA/EOE/M/W/Vet/Disability