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# Lead Data Engineer

- **Company:** Fiberutilities Group, LLC
- **Location:** Cedar Rapids, IA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Microsoft Azure, Data Architecture, Data Cleansing, Information Engineering, Data Governance, Data Integration, Extract Transform Load (ETL), SQL Azure, Data Pipelines
- **Published:** July 23, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=5301469a9ae4203e

## About the Role

* 7+ years of data architecture/engineering experience
 * Strong experience designing and building ETL/ELT pipelines in an Azure-centric environment
 * 2+ years of senior/leadership experience
 * Bachelor's degree preferred, or equivalent experience

Excited to bring your expertise to a role that makes a difference? Join FG and thrive in a collaborative, rewarding environment - apply today!, * Bachelor's (Preferred), * data engineering: 7 years (Preferred)

 * Azure ETL/ELT pipeline development: 1 year (Preferred)
 * Lead or Senior-level: 1 year (Preferred)

Ability to Commute:

 * Cedar Rapids, IA 52401 (Required)

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Cedar Rapids, IA 52401

## Description

As the Lead Data Engineer, you will be responsible for owning the design, implementation, and ongoing evolution of FG's data integration ecosystem with external partners and service providers., * Lead the end-to-end architecture and design of data integrations

 * Design, implement, and maintain ETL/ELT pipelines to ingest, transform, and load external data into Azure SQL
 * Define and enforce data modeling standards, schemas, and data contracts for external data domains
 * Implement data quality frameworks
 * Apply ML and advanced methods to improve data cleansing, matching, and enrichment
 * Establish best practices, coding standards, and review processes for data engineering work


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