Senior Data Engineer
- Location
- Columbia, MO; Kansas City, MO
- Work mode
- On-site
- Employment type
- Full-time
About the job
This is an on-site role based in Columbia, MO or Kansas City, MO. Candidates must be within driving distance and able to work in-office regularly. Remote work is not available for this position.
It’s a broad role with real ownership, which is both the appeal and the challenge: there isn’t a senior engineer above you reviewing every decision. We’re looking for someone ready to own the whole platform and confident enough to ask questions when needed.
What you’ll do:
Own the data pipelines
• Manage automated replication and ingestion into the warehouse
- Manage automated replication and ingestion into the warehouse
- Monitor performance, troubleshoot failures, and handle schema changes
- Add new data sources as business needs evolve
• Maintain and evolve the cloud warehouse architecture
- Maintain and evolve the cloud warehouse architecture
- Define layering, naming conventions, performance standards, and cost efficiency
- Ensure scalability across multiple subsidiaries
• Design and maintain dimensional models (facts and dimensions)
- Design and maintain dimensional models (facts and dimensions)
- Partner directly with Finance, HR, and Operations leaders to translate business needs into data structures
- Build models that support accurate, decision-ready reporting
• Build in testing, documentation, and data quality checks
- Build in testing, documentation, and data quality checks
- Maintain clear data lineage and transparency
- Ensure stakeholders trust the accuracy of reporting
• Strong data engineering fundamentals — clean, maintainable SQL and Python
- Strong data engineering fundamentals — clean, maintainable SQL and Python
- Experience building and operating production data pipelines
- Hands-on experience with a cloud data warehouse (BigQuery preferred; Snowflake, Redshift, or similar acceptable)
- Experience with transformation frameworks (dbt strongly preferred) and layered data architecture (raw → staging → modeled)
- Solid understanding of dimensional modeling (facts vs. dimensions, star schema design)
- Experience with ELT / data replication tools (Fivetran or similar)
- Ability to partner with non-technical stakeholders and translate business needs into scalable data solutions
- Comfortable owning decisions and operating independently
- Experience with Google Cloud Platform (Cloud Run, Cloud SQL/PostgreSQL, Pub/Sub, Cloud Scheduler, Secret Manager)
- Experience integrating ERP systems (Viewpoint Vista or similar) and HCM platforms (Workday)
- Familiarity with CI/CD-driven data workflows and version-controlled transformations
- Experience managing warehouse cost optimization
- Background in construction, engineering, or operations-heavy industries
Reminders:
- This is strictly an on-site role
- Must be located within driving distance of Columbia, MO or Kansas City, MO
- No remote or hybrid work options available
Who Thrives Here: The person who does well here likes owning the whole thing rather than a corner of it, cares more about whether the numbers are right than whether the pipeline is clever, and would rather ship a model the finance team actually uses than a perfect one nobody asked for. You're comfortable being the person who knows how the data fits together, and you treat "the business owner doesn't quite know what they want yet" as part of the job rather than a blocker. Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)
From ESS Companies, Inc.'s careers page (Workday), checked 30 Oct 2026.
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Posted 29 Sept 2026 · checked 30 Oct 2026 · Report this job
