Data Engineer at Harrison Street
Chicago, IL
$125,000–$200,000
Aug 17, 2026
Chicago, IL
Sep 24, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A data engineering role at an alternative investment management firm, responsible for designing, building, and maintaining scalable ETL pipelines and data infrastructure on Microsoft Fabric and Azure. The position also covers dimensional modeling, data mart design, and BI reporting via Tableau and Power BI, serving both citizen analysts and data scientists. It suits an experienced data engineer comfortable owning end-to-end pipeline work in a financial services environment.
Senior level · 5+ years · Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN-WI · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 20 people in the Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN-WI area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (database architects). range 15–30
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $150,733 (middle half $127,994–$171,827).
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Aug 20, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (8)
The Microsoft Fabric Data Engineer or Azure Data Engineer certification is listed as a hard requirement — candidates lacking it would likely be screened out.
Tableau and Power BI are listed together under Requirements with 'and/or' phrasing; both are captured as required skills with each as an alternative for the other.
Python, Java, C++, and Scala are presented as a family of acceptable object-oriented/scripting languages; Python is listed as the primary with the others as alternatives.
Azure DevOps appears only in the Project Management section (10% of the role) as a tool for creating project plans — listed as preferred given its secondary, non-core context.
Data warehousing, machine learning, and data API knowledge appear in a secondary 'should also have' list rather than the primary Requirements block, so they are marked preferred.
No compensation range is disclosed in the posting.
The posting explicitly states candidates must have independent, long-term US work authorization with no sponsorship — this is a hard eligibility gate not representable in the structured fields.
SOC classification is Medium confidence: the role is primarily pipeline/warehouse building (15-1243 Database Architects) but has meaningful software-development characteristics (custom ETL code, Python scripting) that could support 15-1252 Software Developers as a runner-up.
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