Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Bollinger Houma Shipyard is seeking a Principal Data Engineer to lead enterprise data engineering initiatives. The role focuses on designing and delivering scalable data pipelines and foundational data assets for analytics, reporting, forecasting, and AI, while ensuring data quality, security, reliability, and alignment with enterprise architecture. The position also provides technical leadership, mentoring, and collaboration across engineering, architecture, cybersecurity, and infrastructure teams.
Responsibilities
- Lead the design, development, and support of enterprise data pipelines and integrations across Oracle ERP, Finesse, MES, PLM, Primavera, proposal systems, and other operational platforms
- Establish and maintain scalable data engineering standards, frameworks, and development practices
- Ensure consistent implementation of enterprise data architecture and medallion data design patterns (raw, curated, business-ready)
- Oversee data ingestion, transformation, orchestration, reconciliation, and validation processes
- Partner with Enterprise Architecture and Integration teams to align technical solutions with enterprise standards and future-state architecture
- Support analytics, reporting, forecasting, and AI initiatives through delivery of trusted and performant datasets
- Ensure data quality, lineage, observability, and reliability across enterprise data assets
- Provide technical leadership, architectural guidance, and mentoring to data engineering team members
- Collaborate with cybersecurity and infrastructure teams to ensure secure and compliant handling of enterprise data
- Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend improvements to data engineering capabilities and platform performance
- Mentor and develop technical talent while fostering strong engineering discipline and accountability
Skills
- * Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Data Management, or related field
- * Minimum of **8–12 years** of experience in data engineering
- * Proven experience delivering enterprise-scale data pipelines
- * Strong SQL and data transformation expertise
- * Experience with cloud data platforms (Azure preferred)
- * Experience integrating ERP and operational systems
- * **Experience leading technical teams or mentoring engineers
- * Experience with Azure Synapse, Azure Data Factory, Databricks, Fabric, or similar cloud technologies
- * Experience in manufacturing, shipbuilding, industrial, or engineering-intensive environments
- * Familiarity with Power BI and downstream analytics enablement
- * Experience supporting AI/ML initiatives through engineered datasets and feature pipelines
- * Knowledge of data observability, master data management, and metadata management practices
- * Relevant cloud or data engineering certification
- Prior people management experience is desirable
Benefits
- 401k
- Dental Insurance
- Life Insurance
- Medical Insurance
- Vision
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