Founded in 2002, American Auto Shield (AAS) specializes in 3rd party home and vehicle service contract claims administration. AAS has a headquarters in Lakewood, Colorado, and we operate a satellite office in St. Peters, Missouri. For more than two decades, American Auto Shield has experienced tremendous growth, which equates to fantastic career opportunities for our employees.

The American Auto Shield Senior Data Engineer is a full-time, on-site position at our Lakewood, CO office.

We are seeking a Senior Data Engineer to play a critical role in our enterprise adoption of Microsoft Fabric. This is a high-impact, highly visible position focused on designing and delivering modern, scalable data platforms that power analytics, reporting, and strategic decision-making across the organization. The work performed in this role directly supports key business drivers and is expected to deliver material impact within the next two to three years. You will operate at the intersection of Lakehouse, Warehouse, OneLake, and multiple Analytics Platforms, partnering closely with architects, product managers, and business stakeholders to transform complex data into trusted, actionable insights.

This role offers significant ownership, architectural influence, and the opportunity to establish best practices as we modernize and scale our data ecosystem.

Job Location

Lakewood, CO

Salary

The Senior Data Engineer earns competitive compensation from $110,000-150,000.*

What You’ll Do

• Design, build, and evolve end-to-end data pipelines using Microsoft Fabric, Azure Data Factory, and Spark
• Serve as a key driver of measurable business impact, ensuring data warehousing solutions directly support enterprise capabilities and outcomes
• Architect and maintain Lakehouse and Warehouse solutions leveraging Delta Lake for performance, reliability, and scalability
• Implement and continuously improve Medallion architecture (Bronze / Silver / Gold) within OneLake
• Develop resilient, scalable ETL/ELT frameworks supporting batch, dynamic, and incremental data ingestion
• Drive performance optimization through partitioning strategies, schema and file design, caching, and query tuning
• Enable analytics and reporting through semantic models and Direct Lake integration
• Establish data quality, validation, observability, and monitoring to ensure trusted and governed data
• Partner with product and business teams to translate requirements into robust, extensible data models
• Contribute to data governance standards, documentation, and platform best practices
• Provide technical leadership within a team of highly experienced engineers through design reviews, code reviews, and collaborative solution sessions

What You Need to Join Our Team

Required Experience, Skills & Abilities:

• Senior-level experience in Data Engineering, Analytics Engineering, or a related discipline, with a track record of delivering enterprise-scale solutions
• Deep, hands-on experience with Azure data services or comparable cloud ecosystems, including:
  • Microsoft Fabric (Lakehouse, Warehouse, OneLake)
  • Azure Data Factory
  • Azure Synapse Analytics
  • Power BI, Tableau, MicroStrategy, or similar. 
  • AWS or Snowflake-based data platforms
• Strong experience with Spark (PySpark and/or Spark SQL)
• Advanced SQL expertise (T-SQL and/or ANSI SQL)
• Proven ability to design and operate large-scale, production-grade, high-performance data pipelines
• Hands-on experience with Delta Lake and modern data lake architectures
• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to clearly communicate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders

Why This Role:

• Opportunity to shape and influence a strategic, enterprise-wide Microsoft Fabric implementation
• Work on modern data architecture with meaningful scale and long-term impact
• High degree of technical ownership and autonomy
• Collaborative engineering culture with strong executive sponsorship
• Clear pathway for technical growth, influence, and leadership

Why work for us? We are excited to provide

• Competitive compensation from $110,000-150,000*
• Comprehensive benefits package
  • Medical
  • Dental
  • Vision
  • Short/Long Term Disability
  • Life Insurance
  • Flex Spending Account
• 401 (k) **
• PTO
• Paid Sick/Wellbeing Time Off
• Employee Assistance Program
• Voluntary Benefits
  • Pet Insurance
  • Life Insurance
• Satisfaction of work with a highly skilled team to make a company-wide impact