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Senior Data Engineer

Minnesota - Developer

Hollstadt Overview

Hollstadt Consulting is a management and technology consulting firm dedicated to placing professionals at engagements where they will excel. When you work with us, you'll work with a refreshingly real company led and staffed by seasoned experts who are also down-to-earth, good people. We're committed to treating you with respect and helping you achieve your career aspirations.

Since 1990, Hollstadt has been a trusted partner to more than 150 domestic and global companies and has successfully completed over 3,000 projects. Our continued growth has created challenging and rewarding opportunities for accomplished IT and Business Consultants. Hollstadt Consulting is an equal opportunity employer including disability/veteran.

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Job Description

Role: Senior Data Engineer

Location: Remote

Duration: 1 year

Rate: $60.89/hour W2


Duties:

  • Implement data pipelines using best practices for ETL / ELT, data management, and data governance. Analyze and process complex data sources in a fast-paced environment.
  • Perform data modeling against large data sets for peak efficiency.
  • Identify, design, and implement process improvement solutions that automate manual processes and leverage standard frameworks and methodologies.
  • Understand and incorporate data quality principles that ensure optimal reliability, impact, and user experience.
  • Partner across teams to support cross-platform operations.
  • Create and document functional and technical specifications.
  • Drive exploration of new features, versions, and related technologies, and provide recommendations to enhance our offerings.
  • Mentor junior engineers within the team.

Education:

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or related field; OR equivalent 5+ years of experience. 5+ years of hands-on experience programming in SQL. 3+ years of experience building and maintaining automated data pipelines and data assets using batch and/or streaming processes.

Languages:

  • English (Read, Write, Speak)

Scope of Work:

  • Prepare and configure the Azure Microsoft Fabric instance to support integration with Cogito Cloud
  • Build and deploy required data infrastructure by July 2026 to align with Cogito Cloud readiness
  • Design and implement scalable data pipelines, transformations, and platform components within Fabric
  • Support data validation, lineage, and certification processes to ensure trusted data delivery
  • Partner with stakeholders to ensure successful integration, testing, and readiness for go-live

Core Requirements:

  • 5+ years of experience in data engineering / data platform development
  • Hands-on experience with Microsoft Fabric (required), including:
  • Lakehouse architecture
  • Data Factory (Fabric pipelines)
  • Dataflows Gen2
  • Warehousing / SQL endpoints
  • Strong experience with Azure data services (ADLS, Synapse, Azure SQL)

Technical Skills:

  • Proficiency in:
    • Python and/or PySpark
    • SQL (advanced)
  • Experience building and optimizing:
    • ETL/ELT pipelines
    • Data ingestion frameworks (batch & streaming)
  • Strong understanding of:
    • Medallion architecture (Bronze/Silver/Gold layers)
    • Delta Lake and parquet-based storage
  • Experience with CI/CD and DevOps practices (Azure DevOps, Git)

Data & Platform Expertise:

  • Data modeling experience (dimensional + semantic layer support)
  • Experience integrating data for:
  • Reporting (Power BI preferred)
  • Downstream analytics and AI/ML use cases
  • Familiarity with data governance and security (RBAC, HIPAA, data policies)

Nice to Have:

Experience with:

  • Power BI semantic models / datasets
  • Real-time analytics in Fabric
  • Exposure to data catalog / lineage tools

Benefits + Perks

Comprehensive Benefit Plan

Hollstadt offers medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short-term disability, long-term disability, paid sick leave, and retirement benefits to eligible employees. With three different medical plans to choose from, you can enroll in the coverage you need from individual to family, or anywhere in between!

Remarketing Process

Hollstadt is based on retention and relationships. We get to know your strengths and career wishes throughout your assignment and then start remarket discussions 6-8 weeks prior to your end date. By being proactive, we are able to keep your down time between assignments as short as possible, unless you choose otherwise.

Professional Development

Hollstadt offers on-demand training through our consultant portal. Trainings give our consultants the continuing education they need to excel on their projects. Many of our courses apply towards continuing education credits and we have an entire training hub dedicated to upskilling in Artificial Intelligence (AI).

401k + Matching

One popular benefit is our 401(k) match on the first 4% of your contributions. Hollstadt wants to help you reach your long-term financial goals and understands that planning for your future is critical. Consultants also have access to support from a Financial Advisor.

Bonus Opportunities

We appreciate and reward loyalty. Join Hollstadt, stay for 5 years, and we’ll give you a $5,000 Longevity Award bonus! Additionally, we know great talent knows other great talent. If you are on contract with Hollstadt and refer one of your connections who gets placed, we’ll pay you $1,000!

Ongoing Support & Networking

We have made a significant investment in building a support program for our consultant team - so you never have to feel like you are going it alone. We also have a Consultant Coach program which acts like a 'work buddy' to provide a safe ear for questions or concerns at your client site.