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Lead Data Engineer

Roadrunner Transportation Services, Inc.
Downers Grove, IL Full Time
POSTED ON 3/28/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 5/28/2025
Job Description Summary: We are a forward-thinking company moving to the cloud to boost our analytics. We need a skilled Lead Data Engineer to join our team. Our Data team helps drive success with data-based decisions. This role blends technical skills with the ability to work with business stakeholders, ensuring a loop of feedback and follow-up. You'll design, build, and maintain our data systems, ensuring quality and access for analysis and operations. As Lead Data Engineer, you'll oversee the modernization of the company’s architecture and work with cross-functional teams to drive data-driven decisions. Critical Job Functions: Data Infrastructure Development: Design, develop, and maintain data pipelines and architectures. Team Leadership: Lead and mentor data engineers, fostering collaboration and improvement. Data Integration: Ensure data consistency, accuracy, and quality from various sources. Data Governance: Enforce data security, compliance, and privacy best practices. Data Quality: Conduct investigations to identify and fix data issues. Collaboration: Work with data engineers and business stakeholders. Performance Optimization: Monitor and improve data system performance. Innovation: Stay updated on industry trends and technologies. Job Requirements: 7 years of experience in similar roles. Expertise in SQL, SSAS, and SSIS. Proficiency in Power BI or similar tools (e.g., Qlik, Tableau). Experience with big data technologies (Hadoop, Spark, Kafka). Knowledge of ETL tools and processes. Experience with data modeling, database design, and data warehousing. Familiarity with Azure Cloud is preferred. Strong drive and dedication. Ability to work closely with the business, ensuring continuous feedback. Proactive approach to guiding business decisions. Excellent communication skills. Good time management and organization skills. Incredible attention to detail. Industry certifications (Azure Data Engineer Associate) are a plus. Physical Demands and Work Environment: The physical demands and work environment described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this position. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. Physical Demands: Sedentary physical activity performing non- strenuous daily activities of an administrative nature. While performing the duties of the job, the employee is regularly required to sit, walk, stand, reach/handle items, work with the fingers, and talk and hear others in conversations via the phone or in person. Work Environment: The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate. Compensation: The estimated compensation for this role is $110,000 per year. Benefits: PTO Paid Holidays Medical Insurance Dental Insurance Vision Insurance Life Insurance 401k Roadrunner Freight is building something special with great people, a winning culture and a differentiated service offering in the marketplace. Join us today to grow your career! “We will not accept unsolicited candidates from external recruiters or recruiting agencies. Thank you!” Additional Requirements: Summary: Roadrunner’s Smart Long Haul is revolutionizing the industry with significant investments in technology, a culture of continuous improvement, and intelligent and efficient direct routing. A Top 100 Trucking company by Inbound Logistics and a Top Tier Service Carrier by Mastio, Roadrunner is an LTL industry leader on the rise. As a long-haul, metro-to-metro LTL carrier, Roadrunner offers more direct routes than any other nationwide Less-than-Truckload carrier in the United States. With a nationwide presence, terminals across 40 markets, and more than $400 million in revenue, the company’s Smart Long-Haul Network is the preferred choice for shippers looking to move freight quickly and reliably. Roadrunner is growing and looking for a highly motivated Lead Data Engineer to join our winning team. If you are results driven and looking for a rapidly growing company with high growth and earnings potential, apply today! We Run Safe. We Run Smart. We Run Together. Our Work Experience is the combination of everything that's unique about us: our culture, our core values, our company meetings, our commitment to sustainability, our recognition programs, but most importantly, it's our people. Our employees are self-disciplined, hard working, curious, trustworthy, humble, and truthful. They make choices according to what is best for the team, they live for opportunities to collaborate and make a difference, and they make us the #1 Top Workplace in the area.

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