Position
Data Integration Engineering Lead
Job Summary
This is the person who figures out how to get data out of a customer’s environment — whether that’s an OSIsoft PI historian behind a corporate firewall, an SAP PM system with no API enabled, a legacy CMMS with only SQL access, or a lab system nobody’s documented.
You won’t wait for someone to hand you clean data. You’ll work directly with customer IT teams to negotiate access, understand their source schemas, and build the extraction layer that feeds our reliability platform.
If you’ve never had to get on a call with a client’s IT security team and talk your way through a firewall rule request, this probably isn’t the right fit.
Job Duties
Source System Extraction (This Is the Core of the Role)
- Independently extract data from industrial source systems including OSIsoft PI historians, SAP PM/EAM, Maximo, eMaint, lab/LIMS systems, and other CMMS/ERP platforms.
- Navigate customer IT environments to establish connectivity — VPNs, service accounts, firewall rules, read-only database access — often with limited or no documentation.
- Reverse-engineer undocumented or poorly documented source schemas to identify the right data for integration.
- Build and own the extraction layer: connectors, API calls, direct database queries, file-based ingestion from heterogeneous client environments.
- Handle the reality that every customer’s data is messy in a different way — inconsistent tag naming, mismatched equipment IDs, unmaintained asset hierarchies.
Data Transformation and Pipeline Development
- Design, build, and maintain data pipelines that clean, transform, and load extracted data into our reliability platform.
- Develop integration architecture and blueprints tailored to each customer’s source system landscape.
- Implement data quality checks, reconciliation processes, and monitoring to ensure ongoing accuracy.
- Build and maintain master data mapping strategies — including change management processes as clients execute MOCs, add equipment, or decommission assets.
- Own pipeline monitoring, alerting, and uptime SLAs for all production data extraction and integration systems. These are live production pipelines serving customers — when extraction fails, you are responsible for detecting the failure, diagnosing the root cause, and restoring the data flow within SLA.
Client Communication and Technical Leadership
- Serve as the primary technical point of contact with customer IT teams for all data access and connectivity matters.
- Respond to detailed technical inquiries from client IT leadership (architecture questions, data mapping strategies, security concerns) with clarity and confidence.
- Lead discovery sessions with customers to understand their source systems, data flows, and integration requirements.
- Create and maintain architecture documentation, integration runbooks, and data dictionaries for each client engagement.
- Provide technical guidance and mentorship to team members and drive knowledge sharing across the data engineering team.
- Manage integration project plans, timelines, and deliverables across multiple concurrent client engagements. Drive accountability on milestones, coordinate dependencies with client IT teams, and ensure integrations are completed on schedule.
Strategy and Team Building
- Lead the enterprise data integration strategy and platform architecture across the organization.
- Provide new ideas and approaches to the CTO and enterprise architecture team on data acquisition and integration best practices.
- Drive recruitment to build and grow a high-performing data engineering team.
- Continuously evaluate and adopt emerging data technologies and practices.
Accountabilities/Results/Success for this role
- Projects delivered on time
- Team utilization
- New data solutions delivered pre year
- Production pipeline uptime (extraction/integration)
Required Qualifications/Skills/Competencies
- Hands-on experience extracting data from at least two of: OSIsoft PI, SAP PM/EAM, Maximo, eMaint, or similar industrial/operational systems. This is non-negotiable.
- Heavy industrial process facility experience; chemical, petrochemical, refineries, water/waste water, manufacturing, mining, etc.
- Direct experience working with customer or client IT teams to negotiate and establish data access (firewall rules, VPN connectivity, service accounts, API credentials).
- SQL proficiency — specifically the ability to explore unfamiliar database schemas and write extraction queries with little or no documentation.
- Python for data extraction, transformation, and pipeline automation.
- Experience with cloud-based data integration (Azure Data Factory, Azure Functions, or comparable).
- Strong knowledge of data integration patterns, ETL/ELT, APIs, and messaging protocols (REST, SOAP, OPC).
- Demonstrated experience with enterprise database technologies and data modeling.
- Excellent communication skills — you’ll be the person answering detailed technical emails from client IT directors and leading discovery calls.
Benefits
The Complete You
- Health, vision, and dental insurance, life insurance, 401(k) matching, paid time off (PTO), nine paid holidays, 8 hours of volunteer paid time off (VPTO), and maternity and parental leave.
Campus Perks
- Onsite gym with full amenities, walking workstations, free parking, mini mart/snack machines, gourmet coffee machines, multiple indoor and outdoor collaboration areas, huddle rooms, deep workspaces, and lactation facilities.
Company Celebrations
- Quarterly town hall and fellowships, length of service awards where employees receive additional paid time off and bonuses to cover travel expenses for anniversary milestone trips (5, 10, and 15 years).
Empowering You for Success
- Opportunity to participate in Customer Service Teams (CST) that help facilitate collaboration and project support, access to company technology stack of Microsoft Office 365 Suite and MS Teams, comprehensive onboarding, on-demand training, regular lunch and learns, supervisor and accountability training, leadership development programs, continuous learning opportunities, and more.
The Pinnacle Way (TPW)
TPW is our definition and accountability to ensure a consistent and effective experience for our customers. TPW includes 4 key elements of the customer experience and it guides the way we work:
: what the true goals and objectives are for the facility, leaders, and personnel that we engage. We will also go to great lengths to define the value of our work so we can measure our progress and return that value accordingly
: whatever problems or obstacles are required to help each customer achieve their reliability goals. It is here that we make sure that we bring all our resources to bear to help that site reach new reliability heights
: with excellence. This means that our work processes are tight, our quality is high, and our delivery is consistent
: when our team and the customer are operating with a cadence and structure that is clear and consistent, ensuring that our solutions and our execution are moving forward, we are documenting progress, and measuring value
Working Environment
· Conditions may include working inside and/or outside. May work around office machinery with moving parts and moving objects. Working near radiant and electrical energy. Working closely with others or working alone. Working extended or irregular hours and travelling by all possible modes of transportation.
Physical Job Requirements
· Ability to walk, stand, sit, kneel, push, stoop, reach above the shoulder, grasp, pull, bend repeatedly, climb stairs, identify colors, hear with aid, see, write, count, read, speak, analyze, lift and carry under 30 lbs., and perceive depth.
Tools and PPE Requirements
· Equipment (machines, tools, devices) used in performing the essential job function include but not limited to computers and related equipment, calculators, copiers, fax machines, and telephone.
Limitations and Disclaimer
This job description describes the general job duties, accountabilities and physical requirements associates with the position; it is not an exhaustive list of all the duties, accountabilities, or skills required for the position.
The general job duties, accountabilities and physical requirements associated with the position are subject to modification to reasonably accommodate individuals with disabilities. Some physical requirements may exclude individuals who pose a threat or risk to the health or safety to themselves or others.
This job description neither states nor implies that the listed general job duties, accountabilities, and physical requirements associated with the position are the only tasks expected of an employee. An employee is also required to follow any other job-related instructions and perform any other job-related tasks requested by their supervisor and not in violation of any applicable laws, regulations, or rules.
Requirements are representative of minimum levels of knowledge, skills, and abilities. To perform this job successfully, an employee must possess the abilities and aptitude to perform each duty, accountability, and physical requirement proficiently.
Visa Sponsorship: Employment eligibility to work with Pinnacle in the U.S. is required. This employer will not sponsor any applicants for the following work visa in this job category: H-1B - Cap Subject (Change of Status or Consular Notification). Note that an H-1B Change of Employer is generally not considered to be Cap Subject.
Pinnacle participates in E-Verify, a federal government system used to verify employment authorization and social security number of each new employee.
Pay: $130,000.00 - $175,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- 401(k)
- 401(k) matching
- Dental insurance
- Employee discount
- Flexible schedule
- Flexible spending account
- Health insurance
- Health savings account
- Life insurance
- Paid time off
- Parental leave
- Referral program
- Relocation assistance
- Retirement plan
- Vision insurance
Work Location: In person
