Senior Data Engineer

Company Summary

Priority, headquartered in Clinton Township, MI, is a pioneering technology company transforming the logistics industry with our innovative solutions & commitment to exceptional customer service. We are seeking Team Players who excel in a collaborative environment, embrace change, & understand the impact their quality of work has on others. Our company has experienced rapid growth since its founding in 2018. This growth has allowed us to continually expand our workforce. Priority operates out of several facilities across 3 states. Priority maintains a diversified business model providing service to both municipal solid-waste, construction & demolition customers. Our biggest priority is providing outstanding customer service & revolutionizing the industry through the use of the latest technology.

Job Purpose

Priority Waste is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to own the enterprise data platform that powers our reporting, dashboards, and AI-driven automation. This is a hands-on senior role reporting directly to the CTO, based on-site at our headquarters in Clinton Township, MI. You will take over an early-stage platform built on Azure and Microsoft Fabric and grow it with the company's data needs.

Duties and Responsibilities

Duties include but are not limited to:

• Own and operate the enterprise data platform end to end, from source ingestion through report-ready data.
• Build and maintain data pipelines (medallion architecture) on Azure and Microsoft Fabric.
• Integrate data from core business systems: operations, payroll, fleet management, telematics, and others.
• Model and maintain the warehouse layer that company dashboards and analytics are built on.
• Build and maintain Power BI semantic models and dashboards.
• Own platform operations: monitoring, alerting, and data quality.
• Establish and maintain data governance: shared definitions, quality standards, and access.
• Own and grow our existing AI automations for reporting and reconciliation.
• Additional duties as required.

Qualifications

• 8 years of data engineering experience, including owning production data platforms and establishing data governance.
• Fluency with AI agents and AI-assisted development.
• Deep experience on a major cloud data stack; Azure and Microsoft Fabric preferred.
• Experience integrating data from APIs and file-based sources.
• Comfort operating as the sole data engineer: you scope, build, ship, and operate.
• Expert-level SQL and Python.

Preferred Qualifications

• Power BI semantic modeling and dashboard development.
• Experience in waste, logistics, or another operations-heavy industry.

At Priority Waste, there are fundamental qualities that we look for in all our employees

• People who excel in a collaborative environment (team players).
• A willingness to do whatever the situation calls for.
• An excitement to be part of a growing organization.
• A genuine understanding that the quality of your work has a direct impact on the company's success.