Senior Data Engineer: Lakehouse & Data Infra Lead

Michels Corporation; Milwaukee (WI); On-site; USD 120,000 - 155,000; Full time

Job summary

Michels Corporation seeks a Senior Data Engineer to build and operate lakehouse pipelines powering analytics, reporting, and AI. You will own end-to-end data products, mentor engineers, and help scale the team with automation and observability.

As a senior contributor on the Enterprise Intelligence team, you design patterns, improve engineering standards, and collaborate with IT leadership to deliver durable enterprise data assets.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent hands-on experience.
• 5+ years production experience in data engineering or related field.
• Experience with cloud data platforms such as Databricks, Snowflake, Microsoft Fabric, or BigQuery.
• Proficiency with SQL, Python, Spark, and modern engineering practices including CI/CD and streaming ingestion.
• Experience building observable pipelines with monitoring, lineage, and data quality controls.

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.

Skills

SQL

Python

Spark

CI/CD

Data governance

Observability

Data quality

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent hands-on experience

Tools

Databricks

Snowflake

Microsoft Fabric

BigQuery

Job description

Michels Corporation seeks a Senior Data Engineer to build and operate lakehouse pipelines powering analytics, reporting, and AI. You will own end-to-end data products, mentor engineers, and help scale the team with automation and observability.

As a senior contributor on the Enterprise Intelligence team, you design patterns, improve engineering standards, and collaborate with IT leadership to deliver durable enterprise data assets.