Senior Data Engineer: Own AI-Driven Data Platform (Azure)

Priority Waste Resources; Clinton Charter Township (MI); On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Priority Waste Resources in Clinton Township, MI, seeks a Senior Data Engineer to own and scale the enterprise data platform powering reporting, dashboards, and AI-driven automation. This hands-on role reports to the CTO and is based on-site at our headquarters, guiding data strategy across Azure and Microsoft Fabric.

You will build end-to-end data pipelines, model the data warehouse, develop Power BI models, ensure data governance, and expand AI-assisted analytics to improve operational insight

Qualifications

• 8+ years of data engineering experience, including owning production data platforms and establishing data governance.
• Fluency with AI agents and AI-assisted development.
• Deep experience on a major cloud data stack; Azure and Microsoft Fabric preferred.
• Experience integrating data from APIs and file-based sources.
• Comfort operating as the sole data engineer: you scope, build, ship, and operate.
• Expert-level SQL and Python.

Responsibilities

• Own and operate the enterprise data platform end to end, from source ingestion through report-ready data.
• Build and maintain data pipelines (medallion architecture) on Azure and Microsoft Fabric.
• Integrate data from core business systems: operations, payroll, fleet management, telematics, and others.
• Model and maintain the warehouse layer that company dashboards and analytics are built on.
• Build and maintain Power BI semantic models and dashboards.
• Own platform operations: monitoring, alerting, and data quality.
• Establish and maintain data governance: shared definitions, quality standards, and access.
• Own and grow our existing AI automations for reporting and reconciliation.
• Additional duties as required.

Skills

Data engineering

Data governance

AI-assisted development

Data pipelines design

Tools

Azure

Microsoft Fabric

Power BI

Python

APIs integration

Job description

Priority Waste Resources in Clinton Township, MI, seeks a Senior Data Engineer to own and scale the enterprise data platform powering reporting, dashboards, and AI-driven automation. This hands-on role reports to the CTO and is based on-site at our headquarters, guiding data strategy across Azure and Microsoft Fabric.

You will build end-to-end data pipelines, model the data warehouse, develop Power BI models, ensure data governance, and expand AI-assisted analytics to improve operational insight