
Senior Data Engineer & Scientist
Davidson, NC · HybridFull-time$91–190K/yrSeen todaySeen in employer's feed today
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Job overview
The Senior Data Scientist focused on data engineering discovers, connects, transforms, and operationalizes engineering data and knowledge for downstream AI systems, applications, and workflows. The role works across distributed sources, structured and unstructured content, metadata, lineage, quality, and cloud data services. It also builds reusable data capabilities and prepares data for retrieval and agent use.
Skills & qualifications
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Benefits
Full job description
Be a part of our mission! As a world leader in creating comfortable, sustainable, and efficient climate solutions for buildings, homes and transportation, it's our responsibility to put the planet first. For us at Trane Technologies (https://www.tranetechnologies.com/) , and through our businesses including Trane® (http://www.trane.com/index.html) and Thermo King (http://www.thermoking.com/na/en.html) , sustainability is not just how we do business—it is our business. Do you dare to look at the world's challenges and see impactful possibilities? Do you want to contribute to making a better future? If the answer is yes, we invite you to consider joining us in boldly challenging what's possible for a sustainable world.
Learn about our benefits (http://careers.tranetechnologies.com/global/en/benefits) designed for you to Thrive at work and at home.
We boldly go.
Where is the work:
Monday to Thursday, work onsite with your colleagues. Fridays, choose your work location, balancing what your work requires.
About the role
As a Senior Data Scientist focused on data engineering, you will discover, connect, transform, and operationalize engineering data and knowledge so that it can be reliably used by downstream AI systems, applications, and engineering workflows.
You will work across distributed data sources, structured and unstructured content, metadata, lineage, quality, cloud data services, and reusable headless data capabilities. You will help make engineering data discoverable, trustworthy, and ready for retrieval and agent use.
What you will do
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Discover engineering data and knowledge sources across distributed systems and repositories.
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Build data-ingestion, and integration pipelines.
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Connect structured and unstructured engineering data.
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Implement metadata, cataloging, lineage, and discoverability capabilities.
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Establish data quality, validation, and observability practices.
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Implement GCP or comparable cloud data platform services.
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Design interfaces for downstream AI systems and applications.
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Prepare data and knowledge for retrieval and agent use.
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Support graphs, entities, and relationship modeling.
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Build reusable headless data services.
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Use GitHub workflows, CI/CD, Terraform, and automated testing.
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Prepare requirements, specifications, constitutions, contracts, context, and AI harnesses.
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Implement security, access control, privacy, and governance controls.
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Deploy and support production data services.
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Use Terraform for infrastructure provisioning and repeatable environment management.
Required qualifications
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Bachelor’s degree in data engineering, computer science, engineering, or related field. Master’s degree preferred.
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Two to five years of relevant experience is acceptable.
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Experience discovering and integrating distributed data sources.
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Experience with structured and unstructured engineering data.
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Experience with metadata, cataloging, lineage, and discoverability.
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Experience with data quality, validation, and observability.
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GCP or comparable cloud data-platform experience.
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Experience preparing data and knowledge for retrieval and agent use.
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Experience with graph, entity, and relationship modeling.
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Experience building reusable headless data services.
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Experience with GitHub workflows, CI/CD, and automated testing.
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Experience with requirements, specifications, constitutions, contracts, and AI harnesses.
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Experience with security, access control, privacy, and governance.
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Production deployment and operational-support experience.
What success looks like
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You discover and connect priority engineering data and knowledge sources.
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You deliver reliable ingestion, integration, transformation, and validation pipelines.
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You improve metadata, lineage, discoverability, and operational observability.
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You prepare data and knowledge for retrieval, agent use, and downstream applications.
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You establish repeatable Terraform, GitHub, testing, and deployment practices.
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Your work delivers measurable value for multiple engineering use cases.
Annual Base Salary Range or Hourly Base Pay Range:
$90,900.00 - $189,800.00
Compensation Type:
Salary
Incentive Eligible:
Yes
Sales Commission Eligible:
No
Disclaimer : We strive to provide competitive compensation for this position, tailored to a variety of factors. The actual compensation will depend on elements such as seniority, merit, geographic location, education, experience, travel requirements, and union designation. Our compensation range is generally based on the national average for the country. Additionally, benefits may vary depending on the region, business alignment, union involvement, and employee status.
Thrive at work and at home:
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Benefits kick in on DAY ONE for you and your family, including health insurance and holistic wellness programs that include generous incentives – WE DARE TO CARE!
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Family building benefits include fertility coverage and adoption/surrogacy assistance.
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Paid time off includes up to 15 vacation days, paid holidays, sick leave, and additional options to support volunteer and parental leave.
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401K match up, educational and training opportunities through company programs along with tuition assistance and student debt support.
Disclaimer: Benefit offerings may vary by site as well as Collective Bargaining Agreements and local/state regulations
Safety Sensitive Role:
No
The company designates certain roles as Safety Sensitive. Safety Sensitive roles may require that you pass additional drug screening.
We offer competitive compensation and comprehensive benefits and programs. We are an equal opportunity employer; all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, pregnancy, age, marital status, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any legally protected status.
How this job compares
Set against the 6,194 open Data Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 31, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$91–190K/yr
- North Carolina median$110–207K/yr142 salary ranges
- US median$122–208K/yr4,895 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $140K, is 11% below the North Carolina median midpoint ($157K) — in the middle half of Data Engineer salary ranges in North Carolina.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 190 open Data Engineer jobs in North Carolina and 6,194 across the US. 9% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 2 years of experience — less than three in four Data Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for (median 5 years, across 5,425 postings).
- Education
- This posting asks for a bachelor's degree; 2,681 of the 6,194 open Data Engineer jobs (43%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 31, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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