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Adtalem Global Education

Senior Data Engineer

🇺🇸 Lisle, IL

🕑 Full-Time

💰 $85K - $149K

💻 Data Science

🗓️ July 30th, 2025

Airflow BigQuery CI/CD

Edtech.com's Summary

Adtalem Global Education is hiring a Senior Data Engineer to design, build, and maintain scalable data engineering solutions that support innovation and growth objectives. This role involves architecting data pipelines, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and ensuring data quality and performance within the company's data platform.

Highlights

  • Architect, develop, and optimize scalable data pipelines handling real-time, unstructured, and synthetic datasets
  • Collaborate with data scientists, analysts, and product owners to deliver data solutions that drive business growth
  • Design, deploy, and support high-performance, inbound and outbound data pipelines
  • Leverage streaming technologies and cloud platforms (Google Cloud, AWS, Azure) for real-time data processing and analytics
  • Implement CI/CD pipelines for continuous deployment of data products
  • Develop REST APIs to expose data internally
  • Mentor junior data engineers and stay current with emerging big data and AI/ML technologies
  • Required skills include expertise in Python, SQL, Google Cloud services (BigQuery, Composer, GCS, DataStream, Dataflows, BQML, Vertex AI), Airflow, Kafka, and real-time data ingestion
  • Qualifications include a bachelor's or master's degree in Computer Science or related field, with 6+ years in data engineering and 2+ years working specifically with Google Cloud
  • Salary range is $84,835.61 to $149,076.17 plus comprehensive benefits including health insurance, 401k with 6% match, flexible time off, paid holidays, and an annual incentive program

Senior Data Engineer Full Description

Company Description
Adtalem Global Education is a national leader in post-secondary education and leading provider of professional talent to the healthcare industry. Adtalem educates and empowers students with the knowledge and skills to become leaders in their communities and make a lasting impact on public health, well-being and beyond. Through equitable access to education, environments that nurture student success, and a focus on expanding and diversifying the talent pipeline in healthcare, Adtalem is building a brighter future for communities and the world.
 
 Adtalem is the parent organization of American University of the Caribbean School of Medicine, Chamberlain University, Ross University School of Medicine, Ross University School of Veterinary Medicine and Walden University.
 
 We operate on a hybrid schedule with four in-office days per week (Monday–Thursday). This approach enhances creativity, innovation, communication, and relationship-building, fostering a dynamic and collaborative work environment.
 
 Visit Adtalem.com for more information, and follow on  Twitter and LinkedIn.
 
Job Description
Adtalem is a data driven organization. The Data Engineering team builds data solutions that powers strategic and tactical business decisions and supports the Analytics and Artificial Intelligence operations. By implementing the data platform, data pipelines and data governance policies this team provides the basis for decision-making in Adtalem. Adtalem is looking for a Senior Data Engineer who design, build, and maintain robust data engineering solutions that support our company’s innovation initiatives and growth objectives. 
  • Architect, develop, and optimize scalable data pipelines handling real-time, unstructured, and synthetic datasets
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including data scientists, analysts, and product owners, to deliver innovative data solutions that drive business growth.
  • Design, develop, deploy and support high performance data pipelines both inbound and outbound.
  • Model data platform by applying the business logic and building objects in the semantic layer of the data platform.
  • Leverage streaming technologies and cloud platforms to enable real-time data processing and analytics
  • Optimize data pipelines for performance, scalability, and reliability.
  • Implement CI/CD pipelines to ensure continuous deployment and delivery of our data products.
  • Ensure quality of critical data elements, prepare data quality remediation plans and collaborate with business and system owners to fix the quality issues at its root.
  • Document the design and support strategy of the data pipelines
  • Capture, store and socialize data lineage and operational metadata
  • Troubleshoot and resolve data engineering issues as they arise.
  • Develop REST APIs to expose data to other teams within the company.
  • Stay current with emerging technologies and industry trends related to big data, streaming data, and synthetic data generation
  • Mentor and guide junior data engineers.
Qualifications
  • Bachelor's Degree Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, or other related technical field.
  • Master's Degree Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, or other related technical field. Two (2) plus years experience in Google cloud with services like BigQuery, Composer, GCS, DataStream, Dataflows,BQML, Vertex AI.
  • Six (6) plus years experience in data engineering solutions such as data platforms, ingestion, data management, or publication/analytics. 
  • Hands-on experience working with real-time, unstructured, and synthetic data, and will be instrumental in advancing our data platform capabilities.
  • Experience in Real Time Data ingestion using GCP PubSub, Kafka, Spark or similar.
  • Expert knowledge on Python programming and SQL.
  • Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure) and their data services
  • Experience working with Airflow as workflow management tools and build operators to connect, extract and ingest data as needed.
  • Familiarity with synthetic data generation and unstructured data processing
  • Experience in AI/ML data pipelines and frameworks
  • Excellent organizational, prioritization and analytical abilities.
  • Have proven experience working in incremental execution through successful launches.
  • Excellent problem-solving and critical-thinking skills to recognize and comprehend complex data issues affecting the business environment.
  • Experience working in agile environment.
Additional Information
In support of the pay transparency laws enacted across the country, the expected salary range for this position is between $84,835.61 and $149,076.17. Actual pay will be adjusted based on job-related factors permitted by law, such as experience and training; geographic location; licensure and certifications; market factors; departmental budgets; and responsibility. Our Talent Acquisition Team will be happy to answer any questions you may have, and we look forward to learning more about your salary requirements. The position qualifies for the below benefits.
 
 Adtalem offers a robust suite of benefits including:
 
  • Health, dental, vision, life and disability insurance
  • 401k Retirement Program + 6% employer match
  • Participation in Adtalem’s Flexible Time Off (FTO) Policy
  • 12 Paid Holidays
     
     For more information related to our benefits please visit: https://careers.adtalem.com/benefits.
     
     You are also eligible to participate in an annual incentive program, subject to the rules governing the program, whereby an award, if any, depends on various factors, including, without limitation, individual and organizational performance.
 
 
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