Job Summary:
Blue Heron is seeking a Data & Software Engineer responsible for the company's data foundation. This role involves data platform ownership, software engineering, and ensuring data quality and governance across the organization.
Responsibilities:
• Design, build, operate, and maintain our Microsoft data platform: Fabric / OneLake / Power BI / Azure components as appropriate.
• Establish automated patterns for ingestion, transformation, modeling, security, monitoring, and cost management.
• Create and maintain semantic models that support consistent dashboarding and reporting across the business and enable teams to use them effectively.
• Integrate data across multiple systems using APIs, files, databases, middleware/iPaaS, and approaches for systems without APIs.
• Build and maintain reliable ingestion pipelines (batch and/or near real-time where needed).
• Write and maintain production-quality code to support pipelines, transformations, integrations, and internal tooling.
• Develop supporting tools/services where needed to automate workflows and improve data reliability.
• Define practical data standards (definitions, naming, required fields, validation rules, ownership, etc.).
• Partner with business stakeholders and data product owners to improve upstream data entry processes and reduce downstream cleanup.
• Implement data validation, reconciliation, and lineage so stakeholders can trust the data.
• Build (and enable others to build) core dashboards and reporting patterns in Power BI.
• Train and guide stakeholders on dashboarding best practices, KPI definitions, and self-service reporting within guardrails.
• Create reusable templates/standards for metrics, visuals, and report structure.
• Serve as the subject matter expert for enterprise data.
• Think proactively about Blue Heron’s organizational data strategy - prioritizing what matters most, aligning stakeholders, and adapting as systems/processes evolve.
• Identify opportunities to improve data quality, automation, and reporting maturity in a constantly evolving environment.
• Build internal applications/tools (including custom proprietary platforms for Blue Heron).
• Prototype and deliver AI-enabled apps/workflows (e.g., copilots, RAG, intelligent search, automated insights).
Qualifications:
Required:
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field (or equivalent practical experience).
• 5+ years building data platforms and analytics solutions using Microsoft technologies such as Power BI, Azure Data Factory/SSIS, Azure Synapse, and Azure Data Lake/SQL (or equivalent modern data stack experience).
• Proven ability to build and operate automated, production-grade data pipelines and models (ELT/ETL, validation, monitoring).
• Solid understanding of system integration, including REST APIs and approaches for systems without APIs (vendor exports, file drops, DB connections, etc.).
• Ability to code in relevant languages for data engineering and software development (e.g., Python, SQL, C#, JavaScript/TypeScript or similar).
• Experience improving data quality by working upstream with business teams.
• Ability to communicate clearly with technical and non-technical stakeholders; comfortable training users and setting standards.
• High-ownership mindset: you build it, you own it, you improve it.
Preferred:
• Direct experience with Microsoft Fabric (Lakehouse/Warehouse, pipelines, notebooks, semantic models, governance).
• Application development experience (internal tools, lightweight web apps, workflows).
• Experience using AI-assisted coding tools productively (accelerating delivery while maintaining code quality).
• AI app building experience (Azure OpenAI, copilots, RAG patterns, orchestration, etc.).
• Experience in construction/homebuilding or project-based services data.
Company:
Blue Heron is a design-led development firm that accentuates aspirational living through personalized Home experiences. Founded in 2004, the company is headquartered in Las Vegas, USA, with a team of 51-200 employees. The company is currently Growth Stage.