Data Engineer

About Flyover Attractions

Flyover is an award-winning immersive flying theatre experience that transports guests through the planet’s most epic places. The attraction utilizes flight motion seats engineered to swoop, dip and turn, giving guests a feeling of flight, while a 65-foot spherical screen provides guests with an unparalleled fight across iconic locations and natural landscapes. Special effects, including wind, mist and scents, to create an unforgettable entertainment experience. Flyover attractions are located in Chicago; Las Vegas; Reykjavik, Iceland; and Vancouver, Canada.

About the role

The Data Engineer builds and runs the Azure data platform that turns ticketing, point-of-sale, and other business data into reporting our teams can trust. In the first phase, this role stands up our existing Azure Synapse, Azure Data Lake Storage, and Azure Data Factory platform in a new Azure environment; after that, it leads the work of improving it, including evaluating Microsoft Fabric. The role is the data subject matter expert on the IT team and partners closely with Finance, the Revenue team, and IT leaders. It is remote-first and based in the Chicago area, with on-site time as needed for hands-on Level 1 IT tasks (up to about four hours per week) and occasional meetings

Compensation:

• $80,000-90,000USD/annually
• Extended Benefits

What you'll do

• Stand up our data platform in a new Azure environment: rebuild and migrate the existing Azure Data Factory pipelines, Synapse workspace, Azure Data Lake Storage (ADLS Gen2), and staging Azure SQL databases from our current template, and validate that the migrated data matches the source
• Design, build, and maintain ADF pipelines that ingest data from on-premises SQL Servers, cloud native ticketing systems, and other sources, including incremental loads, parameterization, triggers, error handling, and alerting on pipeline failures and data freshness
• Own the lakehouse architecture (bronze, silver, and gold layers) and the contents of the staging Azure SQL databases: schemas, stored procedures, load and transformation logic, and query performance (backups, patching, and access are handled by the System Admin team)
• After the migration, find and deliver improvements to the platform’s reliability, cost, and design, and help evaluate whether Microsoft Fabric is the right next step
• Build and maintain a shared Power BI semantic model that Finance, Revenue, and IT leaders report from, with consistent definitions for metrics such as attendance, admissions revenue, and per capita spending; build key reports and help those teams build their own
• Serve as the data SME within the IT team: define data standards, keep pipelines and data definitions documented well enough for someone else to pick up, and keep pipeline code in version control
• As the only IT team member on site at this location, handle Level 1 tasks that need to be done in person (hardware setup and swaps, printer and peripheral issues, hands-on troubleshooting), up to about 4 hours per week; remote support is handled by the team in Vancouver
• Other duties as assigned

Qualifications

• Strong SQL/T-SQL: complex joins, window functions, CTEs, MERGE, and query performance tuning
• Builds reliable pipelines: incremental (watermark) loads, parameterized and reusable pipeline design, retries, and alerts that reach a person when a load fails or quietly loads nothing
• Understands dimensional modeling (star schemas, facts and dimensions, grain) well enough to design data that a shared Power BI semantic model can be built on
• Able to explain data and trade-offs in plain language to Finance, Revenue, and IT leaders, and to turn their questions into well-structured data
• Self-directed: comfortable owning a domain and setting priorities with minimal oversight while collaborating with the System Admin team and the wider IT team

Education & Experience

EDUCATION:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience

IDEAL EXPERIENCE: You won’t need every item on this list. If you meet most of it, we encourage you to apply.

• 3+ years in data engineering, including at least 2 years building and running production Azure Data Factory pipelines

• Hands-on Azure Synapse Analytics and Azure Data Lake Storage (ADLS Gen2), plus Azure SQL Database

• Designing layered (bronze, silver, gold) lakehouse or warehouse architectures, on any platform

• Moving data from on-premises SQL Server into Azure, including use of the self-hosted integration runtime

• Preferred: Microsoft Fabric (lakehouse, warehouse, or pipelines); building a shared Power BI semantic model with DAX measures; Power BI report development and service administration (workspaces, refreshes, row-level security); Python/PySpark; Git and Azure DevOps; migrating a data platform between Azure environments; transactional data from ticketing or POS systems and attraction metrics (attendance, admissions revenue, per capita spending, booking pace); small-team background wearing multiple hats

Welcoming All Applicants

At Flyover, we value a strong team built on respect and professionalism. We seek individuals who bring talent, enthusiasm, and a commitment to great guest experiences. Our hiring decisions are based on skills and qualifications, as well as alignment with our mission and values.

We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, age, religion, gender, sexual orientation, disability, veteran status, and other protected characteristics. To handle this job successfully, any person hired must be able to perform each task effectively. We welcome all applicants and are happy to provide accommodation upon request.

Thank you for your interest in this opportunity. To ensure a smooth process, we kindly request that candidates refrain from calling about the status of their application. Only those selected for an interview will be contacted. We appreciate your understanding.