IT Data Engineer III

IT Data Engineer III page is loaded## IT Data Engineer IIIremote type:
Hybrid locations:
Fort Collins - Lincoln Campus HQ:
Niles, IL, UStime type:
Full time posted on:
Posted Todaytime left to apply:
End Date:
January 12, 2026 (6 days left to apply) job requisition :
JR109050

Woodward is committed to creating a great workplace for all team members. Our company and its members are committed to acting with integrity, being respectful and accountable to one another, and staying humble and driven, while maintaining the highest professional and ethical standards.

We are steadfastly committed to attracting the best talent across our communities creating a rewarding workplace. Together we are fulfilling our purpose to design and deliver energy control solutions our partners count on to power a clean future.
** Woodward supports our members’ wellbeing and regularly benchmarks with other companies in our industry to offer an extensive Total Reward package for this position.
** Salary will be determined by the applicant's education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity and alignment with market data.
** Estimated annual base pay:** $95,000(minimum) - $123,000(midpoint) - $152,000(maximum)
** All Levels are eligible for the benefits below:
*** All members included in annual cash bonus opportunity.
* 401(k) match (4.5%)
* Annual Woodward stock contribution (5%)
* Tuition reimbursement and Training/Professional Development opportunities for all members
* 12 paid holidays, including floating holidays.
* Industry leading medical, dental, and vision Insurance upon date of hire
* Vacation / Sick Time / Vacation Buy-up / Short Term Disability / Bereavement leave.
* Paid parental leave.
* Adoption Assistance
* Employee Assistance Program, including mental health benefits.
* Member Life & AD&D / Long Term Disability / Member Optional Life
* Member referral bonus
* Spouse / Child Optional Life / Optional AD&D / Healthcare and Dependent Care Flexible Spending
* Voluntary benefits, including:
+ Home / Auto Insurance discounts  + Whole Life Insurance / Critical Illness Insurance / Legal Assistance / Military Leave The Level 3 Data Engineer leads the design and delivery of complex data pipelines and models to support downstream use cases such as analytics and machine learning.  They help set architecture patterns, optimize performance, and become experts at operational support for various data platforms.  

They serve as the primary lead on projects and tasks, mentor more junior team members, and work closely with the business to deliver on high-ROI data initiatives.  They provide expertise in source system data and become valued technical resources within Woodward.
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* Key Responsibilities:

*** Design and optimize end-to-end orchestration patterns, architect scalable ETL/ELT solutions, and lead complex logical and physical data modeling efforts.
* Act as the primary data translator for SAP S/4

HANA and other enterprise source systems, and design robust source-to-model mappings.
* Drive complex requirements gathering with analysts, data scientists, and business owners, lead cross-functional projects delivering data products, and manage ticket prioritization for assigned work.
* Lead complex troubleshooting across Power BI, Fabric, and Business Objects, optimize tenant capacity, and help design workspace and semantic modeling standards.
* Design and improve infrastructure patterns for servers and applications, lead complex incident response and root-cause analysis, manage versions and administer servers.
* Design and enforce cross-platform access models, lead implementation of data masking, and drive compliance controls to meet ITAR/GDPR/PII requirements.
* Assist with designing metadata and lineage frameworks, automate metadata capture and quality checks.
** Key

Skills:

*** Advanced SQL
* Advanced Python/Py Spark
* Advanced experience with ETL/ELT using Azure Synapse pipelines, Azure Data Factory, or comparable tools (AWS Glue, Google Cloud Dataflow, Apache Airflow, etc.).  

Experience with SAP Data Services preferred.
* Advanced knowledge of SAP S/4

HANA data structures and common data models.  

Experience with SLT sidecar…