This is a hands-on senior/principal-level engineering role requiring deep expertise in cloud data engineering, semantic modeling, and AI-oriented data platform design. The ideal candidate combines strong technical execution skills with architectural thinking and cross-functional collaboration.We offer:
- Career Development
- Competitive Compensation and Benefits
- Pay Transparency
- Global Opportunities
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The base pay range for this role is estimated to be $134,250.00 - $179,000.00 at the time of posting. Final compensation will be determined by various factors such as work location, education, experience, knowledge and skills.
Tasks and Qualifications:This is What You Will do in This Role:
- Design and implement enterprise semantic models and certified KPI layers to ensure trusted, reusable business metrics.
- Build AI-safe data abstraction layers that prevent metric recomputation and ensure consistency across analytics and AI use cases.
- Develop and enforce data contracts, metadata standards, and semantic governance frameworks across domains.
- Engineer scalable batch and real-time streaming data pipelines in a modern cloud environment (GCP preferred).
- Collaborate with AI/ML teams to design reliable grounding strategies for AI applications and agents.
- Implement metadata management capabilities including cataloging, lineage, observability, and automated data quality checks.
- Apply DataOps principles including CI/CD, automated testing, and deployment automation for data products.
- Support domain-oriented and microservices-based data architecture patterns.
- Mentor engineers and promote best practices in semantic modeling, governance, and AI-ready platform design.
What We are Looking For:
- 10–15+ years of experience in enterprise-scale cloud data engineering and distributed systems.
- Strong hands-on experience building modern data platforms in GCP (BigQuery, Dataform, Pub/Sub, Composer/Airflow, Cloud Run).
- Deep expertise in SQL, Python, and data modeling (dimensional modeling, lakehouse architectures).
- Experience with open-source tech stack such as Iceberg, Trino, Kubernetes, Docker etc.
- Hands-on experience with metadata management, lineage tracking, observability, and data quality frameworks.
- Experience building both batch and real-time streaming data systems.
- Strong understanding of semantic modeling, business metric governance, and AI consumption patterns.
What Will Set You Apart :
- Experience with Data Mesh or domain-driven data architecture.
- Exposure to AI/LLM integration patterns including Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG).
- Supply chain background
Location & Authorization: This is a hybrid role requiring proximity to one of our U.S. offices (Atlanta GA, Grand Rapids MI, Milwaukee WI). Applicants must be authorized to work in the U.S. without the need for current or future sponsorship.
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Skills Required
- 15+ years of proven experience in modern data engineering and software engineering
- Proficiency in building end-to-end data platforms in GCP
- Experience architecting and building enterprise scale data platforms
- Proficiency in technologies such as BigQuery, SQL, Python, Spark, DBT, Airflow, Kafka, Kubernetes, Docker
- Solid experience with microservices based data architectures
What We Do
Looking to make your move? Then you’ve come to the right place! We are the KION Group, and the world of intralogistics is our home. Our solutions ensure the smooth flow of materials and information in production plants, warehouses, and distribution centers in over 100 countries. We have around 41,000 employees who make a real difference, helping us to become who we are today: the biggest manufacturer of forklift trucks and warehouse handling equipment in Europe, and one of the world’s leading warehouse automation providers. Successful? We are, but it’s all down to the motivated, highly trained, and multi-talented people that work for us. Would you like to be part of an international, diverse team? We can offer you interesting jobs and exciting career opportunities in an innovative, rapidly-growing, and forward-looking industry. With us, you benefit from numerous development opportunities in a globally active group, including the possibility of working at one of our locations abroad on a temporary basis. No matter which of our sites you work at, the KION values—integrity, collaboration, courage, and excellence—shape our individual action and our collaboration with colleagues, managers, customers, suppliers, and applicants both nationally and internationally. Who makes up the KION Group? With our international brands Linde Material Handling, STILL, and Baoli, as well as regional brands Fenwick and OM, we stand for exceptional technology and service expertise for forklift trucks and warehouse handling equipment around the world. Dematic expands the portfolio with its automated material handling solutions for intralogistics processes in warehouses, production, and sales
