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Reporting directly to the Director Data Platform within the Information Technology department, the Data Engineer II is responsible for collaborating with analytics, business intelligence, and IT teams to enable data-driven decision-making. Duties include designing, building, and maintaining scalable data pipelines and architectures within the Microsoft data stack, supporting the Microsoft Fabric ecosystem with robust data solutions, and ensuring high-quality, reliable, and accessible data across the organization.

Visual Comfort Offers:

• Work-Life Balance: Monday – Friday, 8:00am – 5:00pm, Domestic Travel 25%
• Training & Development: A comprehensive and structured training program, complemented by ongoing education and opportunities for career advancement.
• Paid Time Off: Generous vacation accrual and paid time off policies.
• Holidays: 7 paid holidays per year, in addition to 2 floating holidays.
• Compensation: Competitive compensation plan
• Health Benefits: Visual Comfort covers the majority of employee medical premiums, and offers competitive vision and dental coverage available starting the first of the month following your start date.
• Insurance: Company-provided life insurance and short-term disability coverage.
• Retirement: 401(k) plan with company matching up to 4%, available beginning the first of the month following your hire date.

How success is defined:

• Design, build, and own scalable data pipelines and ETL/ELT processes to support enterprise data needs
• Develop and maintain curated data products as trusted, reusable assets for downstream systems (e.g., website, Salesforce, marketing, analytics)
• Ensure data quality, integrity, governance, and reliability across all enterprise data platforms and curated datasets
• Architect and optimize data models to support analytics, reporting, and business intelligence requirements
• Implement and manage robust data ingestion frameworks for integrating internal and external data sources
• Develop and optimize distributed data processing workflows using PySpark and modern data engineering frameworks
• Design and deliver solutions leveraging the Microsoft data stack (Azure Data Factory, Azure Synapse, Microsoft Fabric)
• Integrate and transform data from enterprise systems, including Microsoft Dynamics 365 (D365) and JD Edwards (JDE)
• Implement and monitor data validation, observability, and documentation to ensure transparency, consistency, and trust in data assets
• Collaborate with business stakeholders, analysts, and application teams to gather requirements and deliver consumable, business-aligned datasets
• Monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize data workflows to ensure performance, scalability, and reliability
• Support and evolve lakehouse architecture within Microsoft Fabric
• Apply and enforce best practices for data security, compliance, and role-based access control
• Document and maintain data pipelines, processes, and architecture for operational clarity and knowledge sharing
• Works effectively with others in a team environment to accomplish organizational goals and to identify and resolve problems.
• Exhibits and adheres to the established Visual Comfort Company Values.
• Must demonstrate commitment, dependability, punctuality, and adherence to agreed-upon schedule while being present in the workplace to effectively collaborate and communicate amongst co-workers and teams.

What you will bring:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field (or equivalent experience)
• 3+ years of experience in data engineering or a related role
• Experience building and maintaining ETL/ELT pipelines and data integration solutions, including exposure to real-time or streaming data pipelines
• Proficiency in SQL (including T-SQL) and Python, with experience using PySpark and optimizing Spark workloads in distributed/cloud environments
• Hands-on experience with the Microsoft data stack, including Azure Data Factory, Azure Synapse Analytics, and Azure Data Lake Storage
• Experience working with Microsoft Fabric and/or implementing lakehouse architectures using technologies such as Delta Lake or Spark
• Experience integrating and working with ERP data sources, including Microsoft Dynamics 365 (D365) and/or JD Edwards (JDE), with functional knowledge of finance, supply chain, or order management modules
• Strong understanding of data warehousing concepts, dimensional modeling, and semantic modeling (e.g., Power BI datasets)
• Experience using Power BI for reporting and semantic layer development
• Familiarity with data governance tools and practices, including data quality and data management principles
• Experience using version control systems (e.g., Git) and supporting CI/CD practices
• Experience working in retail, manufacturing, or e-commerce environments
• Exceptional organizational and time management skills, with a strong attention to detail
• Ability to prioritize and handle multiple tasks and changing priorities
• Ability to achieve results both independently and through others by fostering a spirit of teamwork and cooperation
• Demonstrate exceptional communication across all contact channels, including email, chat and phone
• Available to work a flexible schedule including weekends, early mornings, late evenings

Compensation Range: $91,000 - $96,000

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