Staff Data Engineer: AI-Driven Data Platforms Lead

ADP; Miami (FL); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Independent Purchasing Cooperative (IPC) in Miami, FL, seeks a Staff Data Engineer to lead AI‑assisted data workflows and hands‑on delivery of data platforms that power supply chain ops for Subway restaurants across North America. You will shape governance, safety, and scalability while guiding the team in strict design and code review.

This role reports to the Director of Information and Data Services. The ideal candidate has 7+ years in data/ software engineering, strong experience with large

Qualifications

• 7+ years of progressive experience in data engineering, software engineering, or a closely related technical discipline.
• Bachelor’s or equivalent degree in relevant discipline such as Computer Science, Information Systems or Engineering, Data Science. Master’s degree preferred.
• 3+ years’ experience building with large language models beyond casual usage, such as agentic or tool‑using systems, retrieval architectures, structured extraction pipelines, or evaluation harnesses.

Responsibilities

• Design, prototype, and productionize agentic and AI‑assisted workflows that improve data engineering throughput, quality, and cycle time.
• Establish evaluation methods and success criteria for AI‑assisted workflows, so their impact can be measured.
• Define technical guardrails for AI tooling that touches organizational data, including human review checkpoints, access boundaries, audit logging, and rollback paths.
• Deliver hands‑on engineering across Microsoft Fabric and Palantir Foundry initiatives, including ingestion, transformation, semantic modeling, and orchestration.
• Partner with Security, Compliance, and Data Governance to keep AI‑assisted workflows within policy for data classification, access control, retention, and auditability.

Skills

Agentic AI

Data engineering

Python

SQL

Spark

CI/CD

Education

Bachelor’s or equivalent in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering or Data Science

Tools

Microsoft Fabric

Palantir Foundry

Azure

Git

CI/CD tools

Job description

Independent Purchasing Cooperative (IPC) in Miami, FL, seeks a Staff Data Engineer to lead AI‑assisted data workflows and hands‑on delivery of data platforms that power supply chain ops for Subway restaurants across North America. You will shape governance, safety, and scalability while guiding the team in strict design and code review.

This role reports to the Director of Information and Data Services. The ideal candidate has 7+ years in data/ software engineering, strong experience with large