Senior Lakehouse Data Platform Engineer

Nucor Business Technology; Waterloo (IN); On-site; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, Vision

Disability Insurance

401K and Roth accounts

Profit sharing

Pay-for-performance bonuses

Paid parental leave

Tuition reimbursement

Stock program

Scholarships and more

Job summary

Nucor Business Technology (NBT) is hiring a Senior Data Engineer to shape and evolve the data platform, standards, and roadmap powering secure, scalable data pipelines and lakehouse infrastructure. This onsite role in Waterloo, IN targets a senior contributor who can set direction and elevate engineering execution.

You will lead the Lakehouse pattern, ensure monitoring practices, and partner across IT, DBAs, and Nucor divisions to support secure connectivity and data access policy.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent experience.
• 10+ years in data engineering, BI architecture, or enterprise data platforms.
• 5+ years in a senior role with mentorship responsibilities.
• Experience architecting/operating enterprise data warehouses or cloud platforms (Azure Synapse, Databricks, Microsoft Fabric).

Responsibilities

• Build and standardize the Lakehouse pattern with clear layer boundaries and domain relationships.
• Provide technical leadership through mentoring and design reviews for pipelines and transformations.
• Own monitoring and observability standards to surface issues early.
• Partner with IT, DBAs, and business divisions on connectivity, security, and data access policies.
• Lead the data platform and tooling roadmap, including migrations and migration standards.
• Prioritize data accuracy, reliability, and platform availability as core safety responsibilities.

Skills

Data engineering

Senior leadership

Mentorship

Data governance

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

Azure Synapse

Databricks

Microsoft Fabric

Data Lake Storage Gen2

Key Vault

Python

Azure DevOps

ARM/Bicep

Terraform

Power BI

CI/CD

Job description

Nucor Business Technology (NBT) is hiring a Senior Data Engineer to shape and evolve the data platform, standards, and roadmap powering secure, scalable data pipelines and lakehouse infrastructure. This onsite role in Waterloo, IN targets a senior contributor who can set direction and elevate engineering execution.

You will lead the Lakehouse pattern, ensure monitoring practices, and partner across IT, DBAs, and Nucor divisions to support secure connectivity and data access policy.