fairlife
Senior Data Engineer
Chicago, Illinois, United States · Senior
No sponsorship$110k-$125kDetected 18 hours ago
PythonCode ReviewGitSQLDatabricksAzureCI/CDDevOpsSparkData EngineeringRAGKQLERPRecruitingTest AutomationCommunication
About the role
- To learn more about fairlife and its complete line of products, please visit fairlife.com. job purpose: The Sr.
- This position requires current authorization to work in the United States.
- Base pay range: $110,000 - $125,000 USD fairlife, LLC is an equal opportunity employer.
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and operationalize batch and streaming data pipelines that integrate enterprise and factory data sources (ERP, IIoT, SaaS applications, APIs) into our lakehouses
- Support development and maintenance of dimensional data models (star schemas) in our lakehouses that deliver consistent, well-governed metrics to the business
- Build reusable frameworks and shared Python libraries (ingestion patterns, incremental loads, telemetry, alerting) that accelerate the whole team, not just one project
- Own the engineering lifecycle end to end: Git branching, pull requests, CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps, automated testing, and environment promotion
- Monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize solutions for reliability, performance, and cost, building data quality validation and pipeline observability into solutions from the start
- Partner with stakeholders across manufacturing and business functions, translating their needs into well-designed solutions and communicating to non-technical audiences
- Document, share, and support the technical growth of fellow team members
- Expert-level SQL and strong Python (building shared libraries and frameworks, not just scripts)
- At fairlife, we manage the majority of our hiring internally through our dedicated Talent Acquisition team, which is actively engaged in direct candidate sourcing.
- fairlife, LLC is a Chicago-based nutrition company that creates great-tasting, nutrition-rich and dairy products to nourish consumers.
Requirements
- skills/qualifications required:
- Experience with manufacturing/factory data (MES, historians, IIoT streaming) a plus
Nice to have
- Contribute to our growing AI-facing platform capabilities, including semantic search indexes, AI-ready data interfaces, and agent tooling
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or related field AND 5+ years of data engineering experience (manufacturing/CPG preferred)
- hands-on Spark/PySpark for large-scale transformation
- Strong grounding in data warehousing and dimensional modeling (star schemas, Kimball)
- Proficiency with Azure data services such as SQL databases, Event Hubs, Functions, Data Factory, Key Vault, and Microsoft Entra
Skills
- Base pay offered may vary depending on geography, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.
Compensation
- $110,000 - $125,000 USD
Company info
- In addition to its nondiscrimination commitment, the Company will also provide reasonable accommodation of qualified individuals with known disabilities unless doing so would impose an undue hardship on the Company.
- At this time, we are not reviewing or expanding that list.
Equal opportunity
- fairlife, LLC is an equal opportunity employer.
- All qualified applicants and employees will be given equal opportunity.
Visa & Work Authorization
- Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.
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