Sr. Data Engineer

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Regular Full-Time Professional Support Center IT Building, Saint Paul, MN, US

Salary Range: $ To $ Annually

IP Corporation is a privately held, family-owned chemical manufacturing organization with more than 70 years of stability, innovation, and growth. Headquartered in Minnesota, IP Corporation supports a portfolio of operating companies that manufacture and distribute resins, gel coats, composite materials, and specialty polymer solutions used across a wide range of industrial applications.

Our operating companies, Interplastic Corporation, North American Composites, HK Research, and Molding Products, work together to deliver technical expertise, high-quality products, and long‑term partnerships to customers around the world. We are known for our customer‑first mindset, strong technical capabilities, and collaborative culture built on trust and continuous improvement.

The Sr. Data Engineer, Microsoft Fabric & Power BI is responsible for designing, building, and optimizing the enterprise data infrastructure that powers business intelligence across IP Corporation. This role combines data engineering, analytics, and business intelligence development to transform operational and manufacturing data into trusted, actionable insights.

Working closely with the Data Architect and business stakeholders, this individual will develop scalable data pipelines, manage Microsoft Fabric data environments, and create impactful Power BI dashboards that support informed decision‑making across the organization. The ideal candidate is passionate about modern data platforms, industrial data integration, and building enterprise solutions that enable data‑driven business outcomes.

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable data pipelines that extract data from operational technology (OT) systems, including historians, SCADA systems, PLCs, and OPC UA sources.
• Build robust ingestion pipelines that support both batch and near real‑time data processing into Microsoft Fabric.
• Land, transform, cleanse, and model enterprise data within One Lake, Lakehouse, and Warehouse environments.
• Optimize data pipelines for reliability, scalability, performance, and cost efficiency, monitoring and troubleshooting pipeline performance while proactively identifying opportunities for improvement.
• Design, develop, and maintain Power BI semantic models, dashboards, and enterprise reporting solutions, including optimized DAX measures and data models that support self‑service analytics.
• Establish reporting standards, visualization best practices, and reusable reporting assets.
• Partner with business stakeholders to understand reporting needs, translate business questions into actionable analytics, and continuously improve reporting capabilities that support strategic and operational decision‑making.
• Develop and maintain Microsoft Fabric components including Data Factory, Lakehouse, Warehouse, Dataflows, and Pipelines, working closely with the Data Architect to expand the ecosystem and ensure solutions follow Microsoft Fabric best practices and architectural standards.
• Support enterprise data governance initiatives, including metadata management, security, lineage, and access controls, and assist with implementation of Microsoft Purview and other governance tools as needed.
• Collaborate with IT, manufacturing, operations, engineering, and business teams, participate in Agile/Scrum ceremonies, support data integration projects across manufacturing and ERP platforms, and document technical solutions, data models, and pipeline architecture.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Data Engineering, Information Systems, Software Engineering, or a related technical field (or equivalent experience).
• Five (5) or more years of experience…