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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Senior Data Engineer - **Company:** Kimley Horn - **Location:** Saint Paul, MN, United States - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** $100,000.0 - $120,000.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Computer-Aided Design, Geographic Information Systems, Artificial Intelligence, Data Analysis, Architectural Patterns, Microsoft Azure, Continuous Integration, Information Engineering, Data Infrastructure, Database Queries, Python (Programming Language), Operational Data Store, Operational Databases, DataOps, Search Technologies, SQL Databases, Workflow Management Systems, Enterprise Search, Enterprise Data Management, Data Classification, Azure Data Factory, Large Language Models, Apache Spark, Microsoft Fabric, Data Management - **Published:** June 12, 2026 - **Apply:** https://dejobs.org/x/x/13AD96D667124CC58F345B07AAA82D37/job/ ## About the Role * 5+ years of experience in data engineering, analytics engineering, or building production-grade data platforms and pipelines. * Strong SQL skills and experience with relational and analytical data modeling, transformation design, and curated datasets for downstream use. * Hands-on experience with Microsoft Fabric strongly preferred; equivalent experience with Azure-based lakehouse, warehouse, or modern data platform services will also be considered. * Proficiency in Python and/or Spark, plus experience with orchestration tools such as Microsoft Fabric Data Factory pipelines or Azure Data Factory. * Experience supporting production data workloads, including incremental loading or CDC patterns, monitoring, CI/CD, governance, and collaboration across technical and business teams. Nice to Have * Experience implementing medallion architecture patterns in Microsoft Fabric. * Experience preparing enterprise data for AI or LLM-driven use cases, including metadata enrichment, chunking, embeddings workflows, or retrieval optimization. * Familiarity with Azure AI Search, vector or hybrid retrieval patterns, and secure enterprise search architectures. * Familiarity with data catalog, governance, and lineage tools such as Microsoft Purview or similar platforms. * AEC domain familiarity, including project delivery data, GIS, BIM/CAD metadata, and document workflows., Applicants must be legally authorized to work for Kimley-Horn in the U.S. without employer sponsorship. We do not typically sponsor H1-B or any other work visa petitions. ## Description Kimley-Horn is building an enterprise data platform to activate project and operational data for AI, search, analytics, and knowledge access across our AEC project delivery ecosystem. We're looking for a Data Engineer to help build a Microsoft Fabric-based lakehouse + warehouse platform on OneLake that unifies data, applies strong governance, and delivers trusted data products for enterprise use. This role will partner closely with IT, security, and civil engineering leadership to build a scalable, secure foundation for data activation across the firm., * Design and implement a Microsoft Fabric lakehouse + warehouse architecture on OneLake, with Bronze and Silver layers in the Lakehouse and curated Gold data products in the Warehouse. * Build and maintain ingestion, transformation, and publishing pipelines using Fabric and related Azure services, including Data Factory pipelines, Lakehouse, Warehouse, notebooks/Spark, and SQL. * Integrate data from key AEC systems-including project delivery, documents, financials, scheduling, and GIS/BIM-related sources-and develop repeatable onboarding patterns using incremental loads, CDC where appropriate, monitoring, alerting, and runbooks. * Publish trusted data products, metadata, and lineage that support AI use cases such as enterprise search, copilots, and retrieval-based applications. * Partner with IT and security to establish data quality, governance, access controls, data classification, lifecycle policies, and production DataOps practices. ## Related Videos - [Data Science in Retail](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/586-data-science-in-retail) - [Modern Data Architectures need Software Engineering](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1030-modern-data-architectures-need-software-engineering) - [PySpark - Combining Machine Learning & Big Data](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/44-pyspark-combining-machine-learning-big-data) - [Data Science, ML & AI in the Oil and Gas Industry at NDT Global - Dr. Katja Träumner](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1308-data-science-ml-ai-in-the-oil-and-gas-industry-at-ndt-global-dr-katja-traumner) - [From Messy Queries to Scalable Systems - How Data Engineering actually works](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100203-from-messy-queries-to-scalable-systems-how-data-engineering-actually-works) - [Data Science on Software Data](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/162-data-science-on-software-data) ## Related Articles - [Data Engineer Salary UK](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/253-data-engineer-salary-uk) - [Highest Paying Tech Companies for Developers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/220-highest-paying-tech-companies-for-developers) - [How to Become an AI Engineer](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/331-how-to-become-an-ai-engineer) - [The Most Popular IT Jobs on the Market](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/376-the-most-popular-it-jobs-on-the-market) - [Fully Remote Software Engineer Jobs](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/447-fully-remote-software-engineer-jobs) - [Is Software Engineering Over-Saturated?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/418-is-software-engineering-over-saturated)