Columbia Sportswear Company

Principal Data Engineer (Delivery Engineering - DTC)

Columbia Sportswear Company  •  Republic of India (Hybrid)  •  2 days ago
Apply
AI can make mistakes so check important info. Chat history is never stored.

Job Description

Althoughwe'rean apparel andfootwear-focusedcompany, technology is central to everything we doColumbia Sportswear’sDigital Technology (CDT)groupenablesan IT infrastructure across four global brands, a global supply chain, and 500+ geographically dispersed storesThese teams support in-store, mobile, and data platforms to enhance customer interface and service in an ever-evolving industry.

The Principal Data Engineer – BI is a senior technical leader within Columbia Sportswear’s Global Capability Center (GCC) and Data & Analytics organization. This role is accountable for the architecture, governance, and long-term evolution of enterprise Power BI semantic models that power trusted analytics across Commercial, Supply Chain, and enterprise business domains.

The Principal Data Engineer– BIoperatesat an enterprise scale—defining modeling standards, performance patterns, and best practices that are adopted across teams. This role serves as the technical authority for BI semantic modeling, ensuring that Power BI models are scalable, performant, intuitive, and aligned with upstream data engineering and downstream analytics needs.

HOW YOU’LL MAKE A DIFFERENCE

Power BI Semantic Modeling (Primary Focus)

  • Own the enterprise strategy and technical vision for BI semantic models, supporting Commercial, Supply Chain, and corporate analytics use cases.

  • Design and govern shared, reusable, and conformed semantic model layers that enable consistent analytics across domains and business functions.

  • Establish and enforce enterprise semantic modeling standards, encompassing dimensional modeling, DAX measures and calculation patterns, performance tuning and troubleshooting, and consistent design, naming, documentation, and reusability practices to ensureaccurate, scalable,highperformanceselfserviceanalytics.

  • Lead design reviews forhighimpactsemantic models, influencing BI architecture decisions and ensuring alignment with enterprise data and analytics strategy.

Analytics Enablement & Collaboration

  • Define andmaintainsemantic model governance frameworks, including naming standards, metric ownership, certification, and lifecycle management

  • Partner with Analytics Engineering and BI teams to ensure models are usable, discoverable, and trusted by analysts and business users

  • Guide Power BI report developers onoptimalmodel consumption patterns, performance considerations, and advanced capabilities

  • Champion enterprise metric consistency and help resolve cross-domain data definition misalignment

  • Proactivelyidentifyand mitigate systemic data quality or modeling risks across semantic, warehouse, and lake layers

Data Engineering & Platform Leadership

  • Provide technical leadership across the end-to-end analytics data stack, from ingestion through curated datasets and semantic models

  • Partner with Data Architects to ensure Power BI models align with Azure Databricks, Delta Lake, and enterprise Data Lake design patterns

  • Influence ELT/ETL architecture decisions tooptimizedatasets for BI performance and usability

  • Lead the design of curated analytical datasets and star schemas that serve multiple downstream use cases

  • Evaluate new Power BI and Azure analytics capabilities and drive their responsible adoption

Technical Leadership & Ways of Working

  • Act as a technical mentor and coach to Senior and Mid-level Data Engineers, raising the overall bar for BI engineering

  • Lead by influence rather than authority, driving alignment across distributed teams

  • Contribute to Agile planning at a program or portfolio level, shaping technical roadmaps and sequencing

  • Establish patterns that reduce long-term maintenance cost and improve platform scalability

  • Represent BI engineering in cross-functional forums and architectural discussions

Delivery & Ways of Working

  • InfluenceAgile deliveryplanning,processes, including backlog refinement, estimation, sprint execution, and retrospectives

  • Proactivelyidentifydata issues, technical risks, and improvement opportunities, escalating appropriately

  • Astrategic, collaborative leader whoanticipatesscaling challenges and raises capability across teams

    YOU ARE

    • A recognizedexpert in BI semantic modeling and analytics data design

    • A systems thinker whooptimizesfor enterprise scale, consistency, and longevity

    • Comfortable making high-impact technical decisions amid ambiguity

    • A technical leader who amplifies the effectiveness of others

    YOU HAVE

    Required Qualifications

    • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience

    • Strongproficiencyin SQL for analytical workloads, including query optimization and data validation

    • Hands on experience building and supporting Power BI semantic models, including:

    • Expert-level experience designing enterprise-scale Power BI semantic models (Star schemas and dimensional models)

    • Deep mastery of:

    • Dimensional modeling and star schemas

    • Complex DAX patterns and performance optimization

    • Strongworkingknowledge and experiencewith Azure data platforms, such as Azure Data Lake, Azure Databricks, Azure Data Factory, or similar tools

    • Experience integrating data from enterprise source systems (e.g.,DTC,Supply Chain, ERP, SAP, or similar domains)

    Nice to Have / Growth Areas

    Deeper experience with Databricks, Spark, or Delta Lake

    • Advanced DAX optimization and performance tuning

    • Exposure to data ingestion frameworks, orchestration, or cloud scale ELT patterns

    • Experienceoperatingin a Global Capability Center (GCC) or distributed Agile team

    #LI-SA1

    #Hybrid

This job description is not meant to be an all-inclusive list of duties and responsibilities, but constitutes a general definition of the position's scope and function in the company.

Columbia Sportswear Company

About Columbia Sportswear Company

Based in Portland, Oregon, Columbia Sportswear Company (NASDAQ: COLM) is a global outdoor brand that crafts active lifestyle gear fortified with industry-leading technologies and tested in our backyard. Our apparel, footwear, and accessories reflect our Pacific Northwest heritage and indomitable spirit.

Over the last 80 years, Columbia and our family of brands, Sorel, prAna, and Mountain Hardwear, have grown to over 10,000 employees and proudly sell products in over 100 countries.

At Columbia, we're as passionate about the outdoors as you are. And while our gear is available around the world, we're proud to be based in the Pacific Northwest where the lush forests, snow-covered mountains, rugged coastline, and wide-open spaces serve as our playground. This is where we hike, fish, hunt, camp, climb, shred, paddle, golf, run, and just enjoy the fresh air with friends.

We hope to see you out there.

Columbia Sportswear Company (the “Company”) is now using LinkedIn's AI Assistant technology as part of our recruiting process (see LinkedIn’s terms and conditions). This innovative tool helps enhance efficiency, improve candidate matching and streamline the recruitment process. However, to ensure fairness, a member of the Company’s recruiting team will be involved in every step of the recruiting process. By proceeding with my application, I acknowledge I have read and understand my personal information is processed in accordance with the Company's Applicant & Employee Privacy Notice.

LinkedIn Terms & Conditions:

https://www.linkedin.com/legal/jobs-terms-conditions

CSC Applicant & Employee Privacy Notice:

https://www.columbiasportswearcompany.com/privacy-policy

Industry
Fashion & Apparel
Company Size
5,001-10,000 employees
Headquarters
Portland, Oregon
Year Founded
Unknown
Social Media