Principal Data Engineer – HR Analytics
Frisco, TX - USA
Job Summary
Overview:
TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to our clients world-wide. Our client provider of digital technology and transformation information technology and services
Position: Principal Data Engineer HR Analytics
Location: Frisco TX
Duration: 12 Months
Job Type: Temporary Assignment
Work Type: Hybrid
Job Description:
- The Principal Data Engineer is the senior most delivery engineer on the HR Analytics team and serves as the in region engineering peer to the Information Architect and Principal Data Engineer (India).
- This is a hands on technical leadership role responsible for building the most complex high impact HR data products end to end from engaging with HR executives to understand business needs through data ingestion and transformation across Snowflake and Databricks to delivering certified datasets in Microsoft Fabric and Power BI.
- The role sets the engineering benchmark for the team mentors senior engineers partners on platform decisions and represents HR Analytics engineering in enterprise forums.
Key Responsibilities:
- Own end to end delivery of complex HR Analytics data products
- Engage with HR executives and senior stakeholders to translate business needs into technical solutions
- Design and implement data pipelines across:
- Snowflake (including Iceberg)
- Databricks (Delta Lake)
- Microsoft Fabric semantic layer
- Deliver certified datasets and visualizations in Power BI
- Define and maintain engineering standards and best practices
- Partner with the Information Architect on platform architecture governance and pattern definition
- Act as primary US engineering lead for high impact delivery commitments
- Provide technical leadership and guidance to senior and mid-level data engineers
- Drive cross-region collaboration with the India team for seamless delivery
- Troubleshoot and resolve complex engineering challenges
- Represent HR Analytics engineering in enterprise-level discussions
- Mentor and develop senior engineering talent
How the Role Operates:
- Acts as the senior-most US engineering voice for critical initiatives
- Works as a peer partner with:
- Information Architect (architecture decisions)
- Principal Data Engineer (India) (cross region delivery)
Engages directly with:
- HR VPs and executives
- Analytics leadership
- Leads by example with hands-on coding modeling and data product delivery
- Drives engineering excellence through practical implementation
- Team Structure & Working Model
- Global HR Analytics team across Country & India
Structure:
- Information Architect Architecture ownership
- Principal Data Engineers Engineering leadership & delivery
- Senior / Data / Associate Engineers Execution
Delivery flow:
- Business need Design Ingestion Transformation Semantic layer Power BI
- Operates in a DevOps model:
- Engineers own production data products
- On call rotation shared across team
Required Qualifications
- 10 years of experience in Data Engineering / Data Platform Engineering
- Experience in Principal / Lead engineering role on enterprise data platforms
- Strong hands-on expertise in:
- Databricks (Delta Lake)
- Snowflake (including Iceberg)
- Microsoft Fabric
- Proficiency in:
- PySpark
- Spark SQL
- Python
- Experience building end-to-end data pipelines and data products
Strong knowledge of:
- Data modeling
- Lakehouse architecture
- Data transformation frameworks
- Experience working with enterprise data systems and large-scale platforms
- Ability to engage with senior business stakeholders and translate technical solutions
- Proven experience mentoring and leading senior engineers
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in HR Analytics domain (Workforce Talent Compensation etc.)
- Exposure to Workday ServiceNow or similar HR systems
- Experience with streaming technologies
- Familiarity with enterprise data platforms and large-scale analytics environments
- Experience supporting AI/ML or advanced analytics workloads
- Exposure to Power BI semantic models and reporting
TekWissen Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity.