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Contract AI Data Engineer

Jet Support Services

Job Location:

Chicago, IL - USA

Monthly Salary: Not provided by the employer

Posted: 29 September 2026 (2 days ago)

Application Deadline: 27 December 2026

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

About JSSI

Founded in 1989 and headquartered in Chicago Jet Support Services Inc. (JSSI) is the largest independent provider of hourly cost maintenance programs for business aviation. JSSI delivers comprehensive coverage for engines airframes and auxiliary power units (APUs) across more than 300 different aircraft makes and models helping owners and operators stabilize maintenance budgets maximize aircraft availability and protect asset value throughout the lifecycle of ownership.JSSI has built a portfolio of complementary business lines designed to simplify the economic and technical complexity of business aviation; these include Maintenance teams Traxxall maintenance tracking software Parts & Engines Conklin aircraft cost and performance data and Aviation Capital asset-based financing solutions. Together these offerings support owners operators and maintenance providers with integrated tools spanning ownership and maintenance planning execution and financial management.With more than 6500 aircraft supported through programs and software platforms JSSI leverages its unique independence unmatched scale and data-driven insight to deliver customized solutions and support models aligned to the interests of each client regardless of aircraft platform. JSSI is backed by leading institutional investors GTCR Genstar Capital and Blackstone. Learn more at .

JSSI is building an AI-first data platform and the AI Data Engineer is the person who builds and owns it. You are the platform owner responsible for the pipelines the lakehouse and the governed datasets that make AI and analytics possible across every JSSI business unit.

This is a hands-on individual contributor role. You will design and build the data infrastructure that AI agents depend on ensure data quality and governance are production-grade and work at the intersection of data engineering and AI delivery. You will use Claude Code to build pipelines against JSSI standards and be a core part of how the organization accelerates.

Responsibilities

Own the data platform

Own Bronze / Silver / Gold pipelines in Microsoft Fabric and OneLake
Model governed semantic layers; serve Power BI via Direct Lake
Ingest business-unit data into Fabric & Azure SQL with quality and lineage controls
Enforce data governance security and PII handling aligned to Entra ID
Expose curated datasets to AI agents through approved MCP servers only
Use Claude Code to build pipelines against JSSI standards; review and validate all AI-generated code before it ships
Orchestrate monitor and optimize pipelines for reliability performance and Fabric capacity (CU) cost
Manage Git-based version control and Fabric deployment pipelines across dev / test / prod

Support reporting and ad-hoc requests

Handle ad-hoc requests (report enhancements and fixes and dataset enhancements and fixes) across Microsoft Fabric and Power BI
Build and maintain paginated (operational) reports
Write debug and tune SQL for reporting data investigation and fixes
Use Claude Code to investigate and diagnose platform data-quality and reporting issues tracing root cause across pipelines lake house tables and semantic models before drafting a validated fix
Support and optimize Power BI semantic models and DAX for downstream consumers

Requirements

Required

Hands-on experience building and maintaining data pipelines in Microsoft Fabric including Lakehouse architecture and OneLake
Proficiency with Bronze / Silver / Gold medallion architecture and semantic layer modeling
Experience with Azure SQL ADLS Gen2 and data ingestion across multiple source systems
Understanding of data governance security and PII handling practices including Entra ID alignment
Experience exposing data products via APIs or MCP-style interfaces for downstream AI or analytics consumption
Active use of AI coding tools (such as Claude Code) as part of your development workflow not aspirational but current practice

Strongly preferred

Experience building data infrastructure specifically to support AI agents ML models or agentic pipelines
Familiarity with Power BI and Direct Lake connectivity
Experience working within engineering standards documentation-first workflows and structured code review practices
Exposure to MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers or similar AI data access patterns

Not required

People management experience this is an individual contributor role
Aviation or MRO domain knowledge curiosity and the ability to learn the business context matters more than knowing it on day one

WHO THRIVES IN THIS ROLE

This role is a great fit for someone who takes genuine ownership of data infrastructure not just someone who builds pipelines when tickets arrive but someone who thinks about the platform as a product with real consumers. You are already using AI tools to write and ship code faster. You care about data quality as a first principle not a nice-to-have. And you want to be part of building something that directly enables the AI-first future of a company not supporting a legacy stack.

JSSI is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex national origin disability protected veteran status or other characteristic protected by law.

JSSI does not accept unsolicited resumes from individual recruiters or third-party recruiting agencies in response to job postings. No fee will be paid to third parties who submit unsolicited candidates directly to our hiring managers or Recruiting Team.

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