Director of Data Engineering

Jet Support Services

Job Location:

Chicago, IL - USA

Monthly Salary: $ 180000 - 220000

Posted on: Yesterday

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

About JSSI

Founded in 1989 and headquartered in Chicago Jet Support Services Inc. (JSSI) is the largest independent provider of hourly cost maintenance programs for business aviation. JSSI delivers comprehensive coverage for engines airframes and auxiliary power units (APUs) across more than 300 different aircraft makes and models helping owners and operators stabilize maintenance budgets maximize aircraft availability and protect asset value throughout the lifecycle of ownership.JSSI has built a portfolio of complementary business lines designed to simplify the economic and technical complexity of business aviation; these include Maintenance teams Traxxall maintenance tracking software Parts & Engines Conklin aircraft cost and performance data and Aviation Capital asset-based financing solutions. Together these offerings support owners operators and maintenance providers with integrated tools spanning ownership and maintenance planning execution and financial management.With more than 6500 aircraft supported through programs and software platforms JSSI leverages its unique independence unmatched scale and data-driven insight to deliver customized solutions and support models aligned to the interests of each client regardless of aircraft platform. JSSI is backed by leading institutional investors GTCR Genstar Capital and Blackstone. Learn more at .

The Opportunity

We have built a data platform on Microsoft Fabric and Azure. Our analytics team is consuming data and our AI roadmap depends on clean structured trustworthy data to deliver. What we are missing is the technical owner who makes the data actually work.

This is not a hands-off leadership role. The Director of Data Engineering will be a player-coach: leading and growing a team of 25 engineers while remaining a hands-on contributor who can architect solutions write pipelines and set the technical bar. You will own the Fabric platform end-to-end connect our source systems into a reliable data foundation and serve as the linchpin between raw data and every downstream initiative that depends on it.

Why This Role Matters

Every AI project on our roadmap requires clean well-structured trustworthy data. The Fabric platform is in place. This role makes it useful. Without strong data engineering leadership our analytics team is constrained by data quality issues they cannot fix and our AI initiatives stall before they start.

Duties and Responsibilities:

Own the Microsoft Fabric Platform

Serve as the technical owner of JSSIs Microsoft Fabric environment architecture governance performance and access control

Drive the roadmap for the platform including CI/CD enablement Git integration and centralized ingestion workspace design

Manage Fabric capacity right-sizing backup and disaster recovery

Build and Maintain Data Pipelines

Design build and operate reliable data pipelines that connect source systems into clean usable data

Establish monitoring alerting and SLA standards for pipeline reliability

Define the Data Foundation

Establish a single source of truth across all systems and acquisitions ensuring every team is working from the same numbers

Build and maintain enterprise semantic models that serve analytics reporting and AI use cases

Partner with the data governance function to implement Microsoft Purview for cataloging classification and data privacy standards

Enable Analytics and AI

Make the analytics team faster by solving data quality and availability issues at the source

Build the data foundation that AI initiatives depend on enabling the organization to move from insight to action

Develop and support AI data agents to expand analytics delivery across the organization

Responsible for supporting ML initiatives (not just AI agents)

Lead and Grow the Team

Manage and mentor a team of 25 data engineers setting technical standards and fostering a high-performance culture

Partner cross-functionally with analytics product and business stakeholders to prioritize and deliver

Represent the data engineering function in leadership discussions and help shape JSSIs broader data strategy

Desired Credentials:

Experience

10 years of experience in data engineering with a track record of building and scaling data platforms in production environments

3 years in a leadership role managing engineers with demonstrated ability to develop talent and build team culture

Experience as a player-coach comfortable rolling up your sleeves while also setting direction for the team

Technical Skills

Deep expertise with Microsoft Fabric including Lakehouse and Warehouse architecture pipelines and OneLake

Strong hands-on experience with Azure cloud infrastructure and Azure Data services

Proficiency in SQL and Python for data engineering and pipeline development

Experience designing and implementing ETL pipelines across complex multi-source environments

Familiarity with CI/CD practices and Git-based deployment workflows for data platforms

Experience with data governance platforms (Microsoft Purview preferred) and semantic layer design

Working knowledge of Power BI and enterprise reporting architectures

Familiarity with AI/ML data patterns and building data products that support machine learning use cases

Leadership and Collaboration

Strong communicator who can translate technical complexity into clear language for business stakeholders

Collaborative partner who works well across analytics product and business teams

High ownership mindset you treat data as a product and hold yourself accountable for its quality and reliability

At JSSI we are committed to rewarding our team members with competitive and comprehensive compensation packages that reflect their contributions and talent.

For this role the annual base pay generally ranges from $180000 to $220000 with the final offer determined by variable factors including but not limited to market location job-specific knowledge skills education and addition your total rewards package may include an annual discretionary bonus plan incentive or sales bonus plan or other form of additional compensation based on your role.

Additionally for full-time employees based in the USA Canada or the Philippines we are proud to offer a robust suite of benefits. This ranges from insurance offerings such as medical dental vision retirement savings programs among others starting day one of employment. For a full overview of our offerings visit the JSSI Benefits Page on our company website.

JSSI is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex national origin disability protected veteran status or other characteristic protected by law.

JSSI does not accept unsolicited resumes from individual recruiters or third-party recruiting agencies in response to job postings. No fee will be paid to third parties who submit unsolicited candidates directly to our hiring managers or Recruiting Team.

Required Experience:

Director

About JSSIFounded in 1989 and headquartered in Chicago Jet Support Services Inc. (JSSI) is the largest independent provider of hourly cost maintenance programs for business aviation. JSSI delivers comprehensive coverage for engines airframes and auxiliary power units (APUs) across more than 300 diff...