Senior Data Engineer - Microsoft Fabric
Overland Park, KS, US Cary, NC, US
Together, we own our company, our future, and our shared success.
As an employee-owned company, our people are Black & Veatch. We put them at the center of everything we do and empower them to grow, explore new possibilities and use their diverse talents and perspectives to solve humanity's biggest challenges in an ever-evolving world. With over 100 years of innovation in sustainable infrastructure and our expertise in engineering, procurement, consulting and construction, together we are building a world of difference.
Company : Black & Veatch Corporation
Req Id : 117985
Opportunity Type : Staff
Relocation eligible : No
Full time/Part time : Full-Time
Project Only Hire : No
Visa Sponsorship Available: No
Why Black & Veatch?
At Black & Veatch, you’ll be part of work that matters—designing, creating, and building the infrastructure communities rely on every day, from concept through execution.
We care about how the work gets done as much as what we build. Safety is built into every decision, and people look out for each other—speaking up, collaborating, and doing the right thing because it affects real lives.
You’ll work alongside teams solving complex challenges and turning ideas into solutions that perform in the real world—gaining hands-on experience across projects, technologies, and disciplines.
Ownership shows up in how we work. We take responsibility for outcomes, follow through on commitments, and take pride in what we deliver. As a 100% employee-owned company, employees share in the long-term success we build together.
With flexible ways of working and meaningful development opportunities, you’ll build a career you can be proud to stand behind.
The Opportunity
The Digital & Data team represents an internal effort to digitally transform and fundamentally revolutionize every corner of Black and Veatch. Our goal is to accelerate Black and Veatch’s technology and propel our company into the next century of digital & data capabilities and success. Our team will be the embedded catalyst functioning as thought leaders within each one of our business units helping to provide technological guidance to provide strategic and impactful initiatives.
Our team is a unique mix of top tier Data Scientists, Engineers, Developers, Strategists, and positively disruptive technology enthusiasts.
We are looking for an experienced, talented, and motivated Senior Data Engineer with significant experience in Agile Methodology, ETL, Data Automation, Job Monitoring, Data Infrastructure, & Data Architecture. We would like you to be a key member of a strategic, skilled, results-oriented team of technology professionals. The role involves broad responsibility for maintaining, building, and enhancing Data Engineering and the Data Development Lifecycle for different areas of Black and Veatch. Duties include monitoring, optimization, automation, data maintenance, and support. The Senior Data Engineer should be an experienced technologist experienced in working with large and small volumes of data with hands-on data development and a deep understanding of the Data lifecycle.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, build, and optimize scalable data engineering and integration solutions using Microsoft Fabric, OneLake, Delta Lake, Spark, SQL, and related Microsoft technologies across batch, near-real-time, and event-driven workloads.
- Develop and maintain trusted enterprise data products, Lakehouse and Data Warehouse solutions, and reusable datasets that support analytics, reporting, digital solutions, and AI use cases.
- Design data models and semantic assets that standardize business definitions, shared entities, reference data, and transformation logic for consistent consumption across business domains.
- Implement data quality, governance, privacy, security, metadata, lineage, and access controls, including automated validation, reconciliation, and quality gates.
- Establish data observability, monitoring, and reliability practices to ensure pipeline and data-product performance, availability, accuracy, resiliency, and cost efficiency.
- Lead production support and complex troubleshooting, including root-cause analysis, incident resolution, recovery procedures, and preventive improvements for business-critical data solutions.
- Apply DevOps and engineering best practices, including Git, automated testing, CI/CD, code reviews, reusable frameworks, and automation to improve scalability, maintainability, and delivery efficiency.
- Provide technical leadership for modern data and AI solutions, developing AI-ready data assets for RAG, agents, Copilot, and advanced analytics while mentoring engineers, partnering across business and technology teams, and evaluating emerging Microsoft Fabric capabilities.
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelors degree in computer science or related field OR equivalent work experience
- In addition to the education requirements, ten years related experience
- All applicants must be able to complete pre-employment onboarding requirements (if selected) which may include any/all of the following: criminal/civil background check, drug screen, and motor vehicle records search, in compliance with any applicable laws and regulations.
Preferred Qualifications
- 8+ years of enterprise data engineering experience, including designing, building, and supporting scalable production data solutions.
- Advanced hands-on proficiency in SQL, Python, and Apache Spark/PySpark for data ingestion, transformation, and processing.
- Hands-on experience with Microsoft Fabric or comparable modern cloud Lakehouse platforms, including Delta Lake and modern data integration patterns.
- Strong experience with data modeling and development of trusted, reusable, consumption-ready data assets or Data Products.
- Production experience implementing data quality, observability, troubleshooting, and root-cause analysis for data pipelines and data products.
- Experience with Git, CI/CD, automated testing, and modern engineering practices, combined with demonstrated technical leadership and the ability to independently own complex solutions.
- Advanced hands-on experience with Microsoft Fabric, including OneLake, Lakehouse, Warehouse, Data Factory, Pipelines, Notebooks, and Spark workloads.
- Experience designing and supporting enterprise Data Products and domain-oriented data architectures.
- Experience building semantic models or reusable semantic assets supporting analytics and AI consumption.
- Experience with Fabric Real-Time Intelligence, Eventstreams, streaming, or event-driven architectures.
- Experience with Microsoft Purview, metadata management, lineage, classification, and enterprise data catalog capabilities.
- Experience with Power BI semantic models or related analytical consumption technologies.
- Familiarity with Azure AI Foundry, Azure OpenAI, RAG, vector search, embeddings, or AI-ready data patterns.
- Experience implementing advanced data observability practices for freshness, completeness, schema drift, volume anomalies, and data reliability.
- Experience working within Data Product, Data Mesh, platform engineering, or domain-oriented operating models.
Work Environment/Physical Demands
Hybrid or flexible work options may be offered after the first 90 days of employment based upon manager discretion, job performance and work assignments.
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Black & Veatch is committed to being an employer of choice by creating a valuable work experience that keeps our people engaged, productive, safe and healthy.
Our comprehensive benefits portfolio is a key component of this commitment and offers an array of health care benefits including but not limited to medical, dental and vision insurances along with disability and a robust wellness program.
To support a healthy work-life balance, we offer flexible work schedules, paid vacation and holiday time, sick time, and dependent sick time.
A variety of additional benefits are available to our professionals, including a company-matched 401k plan, adoption reimbursement, tuition reimbursement, vendor discounts, an employment referral program, AD&D insurance, pre-taxed accounts, voluntary legal plan and the B&V Credit Union. Professionals may also be eligible for a performance-based bonus program.
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By valuing diverse voices and perspectives, we cultivate an authentically inclusive environment for professionals and are able to provide innovative and effective solutions for clients.
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