Principal Data Engineer

Date: Mar 25, 2025

Location: Exton, PA, US

Company: Bentley Systems

Principal Data Engineer

 

Location: Anywhere in th US (Remote)

 

Position Sumary

Bentley Systems is hiring a principal data engineer role within our Data Architecture and Engineering team that is part of a larger Data Operations group. This is a role for an experienced, ambitious, and technically-sound data engineer with an interest in sharing knowledge with fellow colleagues. The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience building data pipelines, data modeling, data integration, workflow management, and software engineering best practices. The Principal Data Engineer will be responsible for implementing data engineering best practices to solve business problems across many different domains such as product, sales, finance, marketing, and operations. Expertise in managing different data environments across teams and making recommendations on architecture patterns. 

 

Responsibilities 

  • Interface with multiple teams of many different disciplines across the business with varying degree of skillset 

  • Mentor and teach fellow data engineers' best practices.  

  • Perform code reviews for fellow data engineers to ensure high quality of code and meeting standards 

  • Develop great business understanding and how to leverage data to answer questions and inform the business 

  • Keep up to date with the current best technologies and practices around tools, technology, and frameworks 

  • Able to lead 2-3 large technically challenging projects at the same time while supporting other projects on the team 

  • Manage our present Data Architecture (Snowflake, Matillion, DBT, Terraform) instances 

  • Manage the transition from historical On-Prem SQL Server Database to a modern cloud implementation 

 

Required Skills 

  • 3+ years of experience building and managing scalable cloud data warehouses/lakehouses such as Snowflake, BigQuery, and or Databricks 

  • 3+ years of experience building data pipelines in tools such as Matillion, DBT, Azure Data Factory, Airflow, Spark, or equivalent tool 

  • 3+ years of experience architecting cloud-native solutions in Azure, AWS, or GCP 

  • Fluent in SQL and experience in optimizing SQL queries 

  • Professional experience in a programming language (Python preferred) to build data pipelines with production-quality code  

  • Extensive knowledge of data warehouse data modeling such as dimensional modeling 

  • Experience with Infrastructure as Code such as Terraform 

  • Experience in building out CI/CD processes to facilitate software engineering best practices using Azure DevOps or an equivalent tool 

  • Exposure to providing high-quality data pipelines for data science and reporting teams to better inform the business 

  • Nice to have experience with real-time data movement utilizing technologies such as Azure Event Hubs or Kafka 

  • Nice to have certifications such as Snowpro or cloud technologies 

 

What We Offer:

  • A great Team and culture – please see our Recruitment Video.

  • An exciting career as an integral part of a world-leading software company providing solutions for architecture, engineering, and construction.

  • Competitive Salary and benefits.

  • The opportunity to work within a global and diversely international team.

  • A supportive and collaborative environment.

  • Colleague Recognition Awards.

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About Bentley Systems

Bentley Systems (Nasdaq: BSY) is the infrastructure engineering software company. We provide innovative software to advance the world’s infrastructure – sustaining both the global economy and environment. Our industry-leading software solutions are used by professionals, and organizations of every size, for the design, construction, and operations of roads and bridges, rail and transit, water and wastewater, public works and utilities, buildings and campuses, mining, and industrial facilities. Our offerings, powered by the iTwin Platform for infrastructure digital twins, include MicroStation and Bentley Open applications for modeling and simulation, Seequent’s software for geoprofessionals, and Bentley Infrastructure Cloud encompassing ProjectWise for project delivery, SYNCHRO for construction management, and AssetWise for asset operations. Bentley Systems’ 5,200 colleagues generate annual revenues of more than $1 billion in 194 countries.
www.bentley.com

Equal Opportunity Employer:

 

Bentley is an equal opportunity employer and considers all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, pregnancy, protected veteran status, religion, national origin, age, genetic information or any other protected characteristic.  This commitment extends to all aspects of employment, including, but not limited to, hiring, placement, promotion, compensation, and training. Know Your Rights as an applicant under the law.

 

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Request an Accommodation:

 

As an Equal Opportunity Employer, Bentley is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities. We encourage you to request a reasonable accommodation if you are not able to fully use or access our online application system.   You can make an accommodation request by calling 610-458-5000 or sending us an email at disabilityrequest@bentley.com

 


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