What are the responsibilities and job description for the Data Engineer 2 (Full-Time) - Special Projects Department position at The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints?
Job Description
Design and maintain scalable data solutions that enable analytics, AI-driven insights, and decision-making across temple construction and operations . This role combines data engineering and analytics engineering , supporting data pipelines, AI-ready datasets, and business-ready insights in partnership with business operations teams
Responsibilities
Church employees find joy and satisfaction in using their unique talents and abilities to further the Lord’s work. From the IT professional who develops an app that sends the gospel message worldwide, to the facilities manager who maintains our buildings— giving Church members places to worship, teach, learn, and receive sacred ordinances—our employees seek innovative ways to share the gospel of Jesus Christ with the world. They are literally working in His kingdom.
Only members of the Church who are worthy of a temple recommend qualify for employment. Apart from this, the Church is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate in its employment decisions on any basis that would violate U.S. or local law.
Qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, national origin, color, gender, pregnancy, marital status, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, or other legally protected categories that apply to the Church. The Church will make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with known disabilities.
Design and maintain scalable data solutions that enable analytics, AI-driven insights, and decision-making across temple construction and operations . This role combines data engineering and analytics engineering , supporting data pipelines, AI-ready datasets, and business-ready insights in partnership with business operations teams
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain data pipelines from project and property systems
- Support cloud data platforms and data storage environments
- Organize data to support reporting across assets and projects
- Combine and structure data from development, construction, and operations
- Create and improve dashboards and reports for tracking performance (Power BI, Tableau etc.)
- Work with construction and facilities teams to deliver data solutions
- Ensure data is accurate, consistent, and reliable
- Improve data processes for speed and efficiency
- Support lifecycle data tracking (design → construction → operations → maintenance)
- Establish documentation, standards, and data engineering best practices
- Prepare clean, usable datasets for analytics and AI use
- Perform exploratory data analysis to identify trends, anomalies, and insights
- Help define and standardize key performance metrics (KPIs)
- Collaborate on predictive and AI use cases (e.g., maintenance, cost, energy forecasting)
- Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent field experience
- 3–5 years in data engineering, analytics engineering, or related field, supporting property development and facility operations data
- Experience working with AI/ML concepts, data preparation for models, or supporting predictive analytics use cases
- SQL (advanced querying, transformations, performance tuning)
- Python (or similar) for data processing, automation, and basic ML integration
- ETL/ELT pipeline development (batch and/or streaming)
- Cloud data platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
- Data modeling (dimensional/star schema)
- Data transformation frameworks (e.g., dbt or similar)
- BI and reporting tools (Power BI, Tableau, or similar)
- Exploratory data analysis (EDA), KPI/metric development, and AI-ready
Church employees find joy and satisfaction in using their unique talents and abilities to further the Lord’s work. From the IT professional who develops an app that sends the gospel message worldwide, to the facilities manager who maintains our buildings— giving Church members places to worship, teach, learn, and receive sacred ordinances—our employees seek innovative ways to share the gospel of Jesus Christ with the world. They are literally working in His kingdom.
Only members of the Church who are worthy of a temple recommend qualify for employment. Apart from this, the Church is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate in its employment decisions on any basis that would violate U.S. or local law.
Qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, national origin, color, gender, pregnancy, marital status, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, or other legally protected categories that apply to the Church. The Church will make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with known disabilities.