Senior Data Engineer (Player-Coach) - Military veterans preferred

Company Overview

HdL Companies is a leader of auditing, operations, and revenue solutions for public agencies with over 900 government agencies nationwide and has recovered more than $3 billion in revenue for our clients. Founded by local government leaders, HdL maintains a unique government perspective and dedication to supporting clients, resulting in a 99.6% client retention rate since inception. HdL Companies is a fast growing, progressive company offering competitive benefits, salary, and a great company culture.

Core Values

HdL team members individually and collectively aspire to the following core values:

Deliver Excellence In Everything – We anticipate needs and believe that delivering extraordinary service, inside and outside our organization, is key to our success. We passionately pursue excellence in everything we do.

Do The Right Thing – We always act in the best interests of our company and our clients. We are respectful, have high integrity, and are accountable for our actions.

Foster Relationships – We build lasting relationships based on trust with our teams and our clients. We value collaboration toward our common goals and inspire each other to improve and progress.

Give Generously – We give generously of our time and resources with our teammates, clients, and communities. We impart information for best practices, encourage professional development, and support charitable community organizations.

Enjoy The Journey – We enjoy our journey and enthusiastically celebrate our successes. We have fun and find fulfillment working with our colleagues and clients.

Be Authentic, Grateful, and Humble – We are thankful for the success we have achieved individually and as a company and never take it for granted.

Job Description

We’re looking for a hands-on Senior Data Engineer who can design, build, and own production-grade data pipelines on Microsoft Azure—and help us establish the foundation for a scalable data engineering team. This is a player-coach role: you’ll spend most of your time building, but you’ll also define standards, mentor others, and shape our data platform strategy.

If you thrive on shipping reliable pipelines, optimizing for cost and performance, and building pragmatic solutions, this role is for you.

Job Responsibilities

• Understand our current process.
• Design and deliver production-ready pipelines using SQL and Azure-based tools. 
• Implement data contracts, quality checks (e.g., Great Expectations), and observability (Azure Monitor, lineage tracking).
• Stand up a cost-efficient, scalable Azure data stack 
• Establish CI/CD workflows for data pipelines using Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions.
• Draft runbooks, standards, and templates for future hires.
• Partner with stakeholders to prioritize high-ROI pipelines for analytics, compliance, and operational reporting.
• Build and maintain ETL/ELT pipelines for batch and (where needed) streaming data.
• Optimize performance and cost across our warehouse, analytics, and storage layers.
• Implement data governance and security using, for example, Azure Purview, Key Vault, and RBAC.
• Define data modeling standards (CDC, SCD, partitioning, schema evolution).
• Mentor junior engineers and help design the hiring loop for future team members.
• Participate in incident response, root cause analysis, and reliability improvements.

Skills and Qualifications

• Familiarity with Power BI integration and semantic modeling.
• Exposure to data governance tools like Azure Purview.
• Prior experience leading or developing small teams.

 Education and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field experience is preferred. 
• 5+ years of experience in data engineering, architecture, or platform administration with at least 3+ years in Azure-based environments.

Compensation

The starting base salary for this position is expected to be between $100,000 to $120,000 annually. Actual pay rate will be determined based on skills, experience (to the extent relevant) and other job-related factors, consistent with applicable law.

Benefits

• Competitive Base Pay
• Opportunity to participate in 401k
• Medical, Dental, Vision, Life/AD&D, LTD and Employee Assistance Program
• Paid time off for Vacation, Sick and Holidays
• Employee Stock Ownership Plan (learn more about the HdL ESOP at: https://www.hdlcompanies.com/about/careers)