Senior Data Engineer

Role Overview

Kimley-Horn is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to join our Innovations team in St. Paul, Minnesota. This role will partner closely with IT, security, and civil engineering leadership to build a scalable, secure foundation for data activation across the firm.

What You Will Do

Design and implement a Microsoft Fabric lakehouse + warehouse architecture, build and maintain ingestion, transformation, and publishing pipelines, and integrate data from key AEC systems.

Why It Might Be a Fit

This is an opportunity to help build the trusted data foundation that makes project information usable across the firm, and to partner with IT and security to establish data quality, governance, access controls, and production DataOps practices.

Requirements

• 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

Benefits

• Exceptional Retirement Plan: 2-to1 company match on up to 4% of eligible compensation (salary + bonus) and additional profit-sharing contribution
• Comprehensive Health Coverage: Low-cost medical, dental, and vision insurance options
• Time Off: Personal leave, flexible scheduling, floating holidays, and half-day Fridays
• Financial Wellness: Student loan matching in our 401(k), and performance-based bonuses
• Professional Development: Tuition reimbursement and extensive internal training programs
• Family-Friendly Benefits: New Parent Leave, family building benefits, and childcare resources