Microsoft Fabric Data Engineer

Career Area:
Technology, Digital and Data
Job Description:
Your Work Shapes the World at Caterpillar Inc.
When you join Caterpillar, you're joining a global team who cares not just about the work we do - but also about each other. We are the makers, problem solvers, and future world builders who are creating stronger, more sustainable communities. We don't just talk about progress and innovation here - we make it happen, with our customers, where we work and live. Together, we are building a better world, so we can all enjoy living in it.
As a Senior Data & Analytics Engineer within Caterpillar's Intelligent Automation and Business Intelligence Center of Excellence (COE), you will play a critical role in enabling enterprise adoption of Microsoft Fabric and modern business intelligence practices. Instead of building isolated analytics solutions, you will support and guide business units across the organization as they modernize their data environments, migrate to Fabric, and mature their BI capabilities. You will provide hands‑on technical expertise, build reusable patterns and accelerators, and partner closely with platform, architecture, and data engineering teams to ensure a scalable, governed, and high-performing analytics ecosystem. This role blends Fabric data engineering, BI semantic modeling, platform stewardship, and enterprise enablement.
What You Will Do:

• Enable enterprise adoption of Microsoft Fabric by providing technical guidance, coaching, and best practices across analytics teams.
• Develop and maintain reusable assets, including templates, reference architectures, semantic model patterns, data pipelines, and governance documentation that support enterprise-wide modernization.
• Support teams in designing and optimizing Fabric Lakehouse environments, Data Factory pipelines, Dataflows Gen2, notebooks, and medallion‑style data architectures.
• Provide subject matter expertise for Microsoft Fabric, Power BI modeling, dataset optimization, DAX best practices, workspace design, and governance policies.
• Assist business units with complex or strategic analytics use cases, including performance tuning, troubleshooting, and proof‑of‑concept development.
• Partner with central infrastructure, platform engineering, and cybersecurity teams to ensure Fabric, Power BI, and related analytics services remain secure, scalable, reliable, and well-governed.
• Create monitoring approaches, standards, and operational best practices that uplift data quality, platform health, and BI performance across the enterprise.
• Collaborate with BI, data engineering, and data architecture teams to align enterprise analytics strategy with Caterpillar's overall digital and data transformation roadmap.
• Support incident/problem management processes and communicate findings to business and technical stakeholders.

What You Have:

• Bachelor's degree in Data Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field.
• 7+ years of combined experience in Business Intelligence, data engineering, or analytics platform support.
• Hands-on experience with Microsoft Fabric components, including Lakehouse, Data Factory (pipelines, dataflows Gen2), Notebooks, Delta tables, and semantic model development.
• Strong proficiency with Power BI, including data modeling, DAX, dataset optimization, performance tuning, and workspace management.
• Solid understanding of data engineering concepts, including ingestion patterns, transformation logic, medallion architecture, and SQL.
• Experience developing or supporting reusable data/BI assets such as templates, pipelines, semantic models, or governance artifacts.
• Strong troubleshooting and analytical skills across distributed systems, BI tools, and data pipelines.
• Experience scripting or automating tasks using tools such as Python, PowerShell, or SQL.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with proven success supporting both technical and non‑technical stakeholders.

Top Candidates Will Also Have:

• Experience enabling or governing analytics platforms in a Center of Excellence or enterprise technology function.
• Knowledge of enterprise-scale BI platforms such as Tableau, Cognos, ThoughtSpot, or Business Objects.
• Familiarity with deployment best practices, Git integration, CI/CD pipelines, and DevOps approaches for Microsoft Fabric and Power BI.
• Experience with Azure data services (Azure Data Lake, Azure SQL, Functions, Synapse).
• Understanding of data warehousing concepts, dimensional modeling, and ETL/ELT practices.
• Experience with platform monitoring, capacity planning, gateway management, or BI environment tuning in a large enterprise.
• Ability to influence and coach cross-functional teams and contribute to enterprise analytics strategy.

Additional Info:

• The ideal location for this role is East Peoria - IL, Nashville - TN, Dallas - TX
• This position may require 10% travel.

About Caterpillar -
For more than a century, Caterpillar has helped build a better, more sustainable world. With 2025 sales and revenues of $67.6 billion, Caterpillar Inc. is shaping the future as the world's leading manufacturer of construction and mining equipment, off-highway diesel and natural gas engines, industrial gas turbines and diesel-electric locomotives. Backed by one of the largest independent global dealer networks and financing services through Cat Financial, the company's primary business segments: Power & Energy, Construction Industries and Resource Industries are solving customers' toughest challenges through commercial excellence and advanced technology, driven by a highly skilled, dedicated global team. Learn more at www.caterpillar.com.
Summary Pay Range:
$112,710.00 - $169,060.00
Compensation and benefits offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, job level, market location, job-related knowledge, skills, individual performance and experience. Please note that salary is only one component of total compensation at Caterpillar.
Benefits:
Subject to plan eligibility, terms, and guidelines. This is a summary list of benefits.

• Medical, dental, and vision benefits*
• Paid time off plan (Vacation, Holidays, Volunteer, etc.)*
• 401(k) savings plans*
• Health Savings Account (HSA)*
• Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs)*
• Health Lifestyle Programs*
• Employee Assistance Program*
• Voluntary Benefits and Employee Discounts*
• Career Development*
• Incentive bonus*
• Disability benefits
• Life Insurance
• Parental leave
• Adoption benefits
• Tuition Reimbursement

* These benefits also apply to part-time employees
Posting Dates:
February 9, 2026 - February 22, 2026
Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a drug screen.
Caterpillar is an Equal Opportunity Employer, Including Veterans and Individuals with Disabilities. Qualified applicants of any age are encouraged to apply.
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