Data Engineer II

Gilbane Building Company supports scalable, reliable data engineering work in a way that prioritizes measurable impact. This onsite role in Providence, RI offers a competitive salary range of $140,000 to $170,000 plus benefits and a retirement program, along with competitive health and welfare benefits, a generous profit-sharing/401k plan, and investment in your growth through Gilbane University.

In this position, you will independently design, build, test, deploy, and support data pipelines, integrations, models, and reusable platform components. You will translate defined business and analytical requirements into secure, dependable solutions that improve data accessibility and quality.

Responsibilities

• Own defined data engineering solutions from requirements and design through deployment, monitoring, and ongoing support.
• Build and optimize ETL/ELT pipelines, integrations, data models, APIs, and batch or near-real-time workflows.
• Translate business rules and source-system behavior into maintainable technical designs and mappings.
• Implement automated testing, reconciliation, observability, alerting, metadata, and lineage for assigned solutions.
• Tune data pipelines, storage, and queries to support reliability, scalability, performance, and cost effectiveness.
• Troubleshoot production incidents, conduct root-cause analysis, remediate defects, and prevent recurrence.
• Apply CI/CD, version control, code review, documentation, and security/privacy/governance standards.
• Partner with analytics, BI, data science, architecture, product, and business teams to deliver usable data products.
• Identify opportunities to automate manual workflows and create reusable engineering patterns.
• Mentor junior engineers through technical guidance, code review, and knowledge sharing.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems, engineering, mathematics, statistics, or a related field.
• 3–5 years of relevant experience in data engineering, software engineering, business intelligence, analytics engineering, or data platform development.
• Experience building and supporting production ETL/ELT pipelines, data models, warehouses, lakes, or lakehouses.
• Strong SQL and proficiency in Python, Scala, Java, or a similar language.
• Experience with a cloud data platform and an orchestration tool, plus automated testing or CI/CD (preferred).
• Equivalent combination of education and experience.

Technology & Tools

• ETL/ELT, SQL, Python, Scala, Java
• CI/CD, cloud data platform, orchestration tool
• APIs, metadata, lineage, observability, alerting
• Version control

Location & Work Authorization

Providence, RI (onsite). This position is not eligible for employment visa sponsorship. Applicants must be authorized to work in the United States without current or future sponsorship.

Compensation & Screening

Salary is determined based on geographic location, skills, education, and/or experience, as well as internal equity and alignment with the team. The pay range is $140,000.00-$170,000.00 plus benefits and a retirement program. Gilbane offers an excellent total compensation package that includes competitive health and welfare benefits and a generous profit-sharing/401k plan. Qualified applicants offered a position must pass a pre-employment substance abuse test.

Equal Opportunity

Gilbane is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to age, color, national origin, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran status, or disability status. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential job functions.

Recruiter/Agency Notice

Gilbane does not accept unsolicited resumes from agencies. Do not forward unsolicited agency resumes to our jobs alias, website, or to any Gilbane employee. Gilbane will not pay fees to any third party agency or firm and is not responsible for any agency fees associated with unsolicited resumes. Unsolicited resumes received will be considered property of Gilbane and processed accordingly.