Data Engineer

Associate Data Engineer (Elevate Program)

Location: Indianapolis, IN

Pay: $28/hr. (starting pay)

Employment Type: Long-Term Contract

Work Arrangement: Hybrid (Onsite 3 Days per Week)

About Brooksource Elevate

Brooksource Elevate is an early-career development program designed to help recent graduates launch successful careers in technology. Through hands-on project work, mentorship, technical training, and professional development opportunities, associates gain real-world experience while building the skills needed to grow into future technology leaders.

About the Team

The Analytics Engineering and Visualization Hub is a centralized team within Finance Digital Transformation focused on building trusted data products that enable Finance and business teams to make smarter, faster decisions. The team develops semantic models, dashboards, and scalable analytics solutions that improve data accessibility, consistency, and business insight while helping lay the foundation for future AI capabilities.

Position Overview

As an Associate Data Engineer, you will help build and maintain the data solutions that power reporting, analytics, and decision-making across the organization. This is an excellent opportunity for a recent graduate who enjoys working with data, solving problems, and learning modern cloud technologies.

You will work alongside experienced data engineers, analysts, and business stakeholders to transform raw data into reliable, reusable, and business-ready data products. Through mentorship and hands-on experience, you will develop skills in data engineering, cloud platforms, data modeling, and analytics.

What You'll Do

• Support the development and maintenance of data pipelines that ingest, transform, and prepare data for analytics and reporting
• Work with team members to integrate data from multiple business systems using Microsoft Fabric and related tools
• Assist in building and maintaining lakehouses, warehouses, and semantic models
• Write SQL queries to validate, transform, and analyze data
• Help monitor data quality, troubleshoot issues, and improve pipeline reliability
• Participate in data governance, documentation, and best practice initiatives
• Collaborate with analysts, engineers, and business stakeholders to understand data requirements and business needs
• Learn and contribute to self-service analytics solutions that empower business users
• Support testing, deployment, and ongoing maintenance of data products
• Continuously grow your technical skills through training, mentorship, and project-based learning

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Data Analytics, Information Systems, Engineering, Mathematics, Finance, or a related field
• Recent graduate or up to 2 years of relevant experience through internships, co-ops, academic projects, research, or professional work
• Basic understanding of SQL and relational databases
• Exposure to data analytics, data engineering, reporting, or business intelligence concepts through coursework, internships, or projects
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Eagerness to learn new technologies and work in a collaborative team environment
• Authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship

Preferred Qualifications

• Internship, co-op, capstone project, or coursework involving data engineering, analytics, or cloud technologies
• Exposure to Microsoft Fabric, Azure, Databricks, Power BI, Snowflake, AWS, or similar data platforms
• Familiarity with SQL, Python, Power Query, or other data transformation tools
• Understanding of data modeling and data warehousing concepts
• Experience creating reports, dashboards, or visualizations using Power BI, Tableau, or similar tools
• Exposure to GitHub or version control concepts
• Interest in finance, business analytics, and data-driven decision making
• Strong communication, teamwork, and organizational skills

What You'll Gain Through Elevate

• Hands-on experience building enterprise data solutions
• Mentorship from experienced data engineers and analytics professionals
• Exposure to Microsoft Fabric and modern cloud data platforms
• Professional development focused on communication, business acumen, and consulting skills

• ABOUT EIGHT ELEVEN:
• At Eight Eleven, our business is people. Relationships are at the center of what we do. A successful partnership is only as strong as the relationship built. We’re your trusted partner for IT hiring, recruiting and staffing needs.
• For over 16 years, Eight Eleven has established and maintained relationships that are designed to meet your IT staffing needs. Whether it’s contract, contract-to-hire, or permanent placement work, we customize our search based upon your company's unique initiatives, culture and technologies. With our national team of recruiters placed at 21 major hubs around the nation, Eight Eleven finds the people best-suited for your business. When you work with us, we work with you. That’s the Eight Eleven promise.
• Eight Eleven Group provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, citizenship, disability, genetic information, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, amnesty or status as a covered veteran in accordance with applicable federal, state, and local laws.