Sr. Data Engineer

Carhartt is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to design, build, optimize, and support secure, reliable, and scalable enterprise data solutions. The role includes technical leadership across Azure Databricks and Lakehouse architecture, data pipelines and orchestration, data modeling and performance, governance and quality, and AI/ML-ready data products.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, deploy, and support scalable batch and streaming data pipelines using Azure Databricks, Azure Data Factory, Python, PySpark, SQL, and related cloud-native services.
• Design and evolve Lakehouse architecture using Delta Lake and Azure Data Lake Storage, including reusable data products and medallion-oriented data layers where appropriate.
• Create and optimize conceptual, logical, dimensional, relational, and physical data models aligned with business meaning and analytical requirements.
• Optimize pipelines, SQL queries, clusters, storage layouts, and processing patterns for performance, reliability, scalability, and cost effectiveness.
• Implement orchestration and operational capabilities including dependency management, scheduling, monitoring, logging, alerting, error handling, recovery, lineage, and observability for production data workloads.
• Apply data governance and quality practices, including metadata, cataloging, validation, reconciliation, security, privacy, retention, and access controls.
• Engineer trusted, well-documented, and reusable datasets and features supporting reporting, advanced analytics, data science, and AI/ML use cases.
• Lead technical design discussions, establish engineering standards and reusable patterns, conduct code and design reviews, and document architecture decisions and tradeoffs.
• Mentor data engineers through pairing, technical guidance, code reviews, troubleshooting, coaching, and clear documentation.
• Partner with business stakeholders, analysts, data scientists, product owners, architects, security teams, application teams, and vendors across the solution lifecycle.
• Apply software engineering practices including Git-based source control, automated testing, CI/CD, deployment automation, and infrastructure configuration.
• Provide advanced production support, including root-cause analysis, corrective actions, and continuous improvement for complex data platform and pipeline incidents.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Data Science, or a related technical field (or equivalent related experience).
• Graduate degree preferred.
• Minimum of 8 years of professional experience in data engineering, data warehousing, business intelligence, cloud data platforms, or a related field.
• Demonstrated experience designing, implementing, and supporting enterprise data solutions using Azure Databricks and Lakehouse architecture.
• Advanced experience with data pipeline design and orchestration, including batch and streaming patterns, dependencies, scheduling, monitoring, and recovery.
• Advanced SQL skills, including data modeling, query optimization, performance troubleshooting, and complex analytical transformations.
• Professional experience with Python and distributed data processing frameworks such as PySpark.
• Experience with Azure Databricks, Delta Lake, Azure Data Lake Storage (ADLS), Azure Data Factory (ADF), Unity Catalog, Azure DevOps, and related Microsoft Azure data platform services.
• Experience designing conceptual, logical, dimensional, relational, and physical data models for analytical and operational use.
• Experience optimizing cloud workloads for performance, scalability, reliability, and cost effectiveness.
• Working knowledge of data governance, metadata, cataloging, lineage, data quality, security, privacy, retention, and access-control principles.
• Experience preparing trusted, governed, reusable, and well-documented data products that enable reporting, advanced analytics, data science, machine learning, generative AI, and future AI-driven business capabilities.
• Experience with Git-based development, code reviews, automated testing, CI/CD, and deployment automation.
• Experience integrating data from SAP, SAP Datasphere, APIs, files, events, product and master data platforms, and third-party enterprise systems.
• Demonstrated technical leadership through architecture and solution design, engineering standards and best practices, design reviews, mentoring, code reviews, reusable patterns, and technical guidance across delivery teams.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to explain technical designs, risks, decisions, and tradeoffs to technical and business audiences.
• Strong cross-functional collaboration skills with business partners, analysts, data scientists, product owners, architects, security teams, and application teams.
• Ability to isolate complex problems, evaluate options, make practical decisions, and provide advanced production support during critical incidents.
• Professional cloud or data engineering certification considered a plus.

Key Technologies

• Azure Databricks
• Azure Data Factory
• Python
• PySpark
• SQL
• Delta Lake
• Azure Data Lake Storage (ADLS)
• Unity Catalog
• Azure DevOps
• Git-based source control
• CI/CD
• SAP
• SAP Datasphere
• APIs

Benefits

• Comprehensive suite of medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Short-term and long-term disability insurance
• Life insurance
• Employee assistance program
• 401(k) plan with employer matching contributions
• Paid time off and designated paid holidays

Position Details

• Department: Information Technology
• Reports to: Sr. Manager, Data Engineering
• Location: Dearborn, MI
• Job Classification: Remote
• FLSA Status: Exempt
• Job Band: Professional

Physical Requirements and Working Conditions

• Normal office environment; extended periods of time sitting, standing, and typing on a computer are required.
• Willing to work some weekends if necessary.
• Remote role: no regular requirement to be on-site; travel on-site is limited to special events.
• Carhartt is a tobacco-free workplace.