Job OverviewThe Senior Data Engineer is a senior technical contributor within the Data Management and Analytics team responsible for the design, technical leadership, delivery, and operation of complex enterprise data solutions. The role provides technical ownership across data engineering initiatives, translating target-state architecture and platform standards into scalable, secure, governed, and supportable solutions.
The Senior Data Engineer leads the technical execution of data modernization efforts, independently solves complex engineering problems, and ensures solutions meet enterprise standards for performance, security, reliability, observability, governance, and cost. In addition to hands-on engineering, the role provides technical guidance through design and code reviews, mentoring, knowledge sharing, and continuous improvement of engineering practices.
What You'll Do:
- Provide technical ownership for complex data engineering initiatives, from detailed solution design through implementation, deployment, operational readiness, and production support.
- Translate target-state architecture and approved reference patterns into detailed engineering designs, ensuring consistent implementation across projects, domains, and modernization efforts.
- Lead the technical delivery of legacy modernization and migration initiatives, including assessment, dependency analysis, data reconciliation, cutover, performance validation, and decommissioning.
- Design and deliver scalable enterprise data solutions across ingestion, transformation, orchestration, storage, modeling, and serving layers using SQL, Python, PySpark, Spark SQL, APIs, CDC, streaming, and file-based integration patterns.
- Develop reusable engineering components and implementation patterns that improve consistency, maintainability, and operational support.
- Own detailed technical design decisions for assigned solutions, evaluating trade-offs involving performance, scalability, security, reliability, maintainability, and cost.
- Design governed data products with clear ownership, documentation, quality rules, lineage, and operational expectations.
- Promote engineering quality through design reviews, code reviews, automated testing, CI/CD, and deployment practices.
- Implement observability and data-quality capabilities covering pipeline health, freshness, lineage, reconciliation, performance, and failures.
- Lead troubleshooting and root-cause analysis for complex or high-impact production incidents and identify improvements that prevent recurrence.
- Optimize workloads for performance, resilience, scalability, and platform consumption using appropriate FinOps practices.
- Mentor Data Engineers through technical guidance, design discussions, code reviews, problem solving, and knowledge sharing.
- Collaborate with team members and cross-functional teams, identify gaps in engineering standards, and recommend improvements to development practices, automation, governance, platform capabilities, and emerging data and AI solutions.
Senior Data Engineer Required Qualifications:- 5+ years of progressive data engineering experience, including independently designing and delivering complex enterprise data solutions.
- 2+ Advanced proficiency in SQL/T-SQL with strong hands-on experience in Python, PySpark, Spark SQL, Delta Lake, Lakehouse, Medallion Architecture, and dimensional modeling.
- 2+ years of experience with Microsoft Fabric, Azure Databricks, or a comparable modern enterprise data platform, with Microsoft Fabric preferred.
- 2+ Strong experience designing ETL/ELT and integration solutions using APIs, batch, incremental loading, CDC, file-based, and streaming patterns.
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems, data engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
Currently, the company is not considering applicants for this position who now or in the future require employment sponsorship by the company.
Our Investment in you:- We believe that Benefits should connect you to the support you need when it matters most, and should help you care for those who matter most. That's why we provide an array of options (including medical, dental, and vision insurance plans), expert guidance, and always-on tools, that are personalized to meet the needs of your reality - to help support you physically, financially, and emotionally through the big milestones and in your everyday life. Please visit the compensation and Benefits summary on our careers site for more details.
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- Compensation and financial well-being - Competitive base salary, excellent bonus program, 401k, & Employee ownership program.
Come work with us and join a winning team!Apply Today for Immediate Consideration!Background Check RequiredPrimary LocationUS-NC-Charlotte
Primary Work Location/AssignmentHybrid
Skanska Business UnitSkanska USA Inc.
Employee StatusFull Time
Telecommute (Used for Career Site)No
