Senior Data Engineer

JLL (Jones Lang LaSalle)

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Work type
On-site
Location
Westmont, ILChicago, IL
Salary
$140,000–$180,000 / yr
Employment
Full-time
Posted
92 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live today
Closes
Oct 30, 2026 (soon)

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This role pays less than 52% of similar roles. Most pay $126,800–$202,120 — the blue band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $160k versus about $164k for comparable roles.

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About JLL (Jones Lang LaSalle)

JLL (Jones Lang LaSalle) is a global professional services firm specializing in real estate and investment management, providing services to buyers, sellers, tenants, landlords, investors, and developers. Industry: Commercial Real Estate Services

JLL (Jones Lang LaSalle) currently has 41 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $168,500–$205,000 across 28 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Senior Data Engineer

The Senior Data Engineer joins the Data Engineering team to serve as a Forward Deployed Data Engineer, embedded directly with product and engineering teams. This role focuses on designing, architecting, and deploying data-driven solutions and AI agents to solve high-priority business problems. You will build production-ready prototypes, develop multi-agent systems, and create scalable data pipelines, APIs, and backend services. Key technologies include Python, SQL, NoSQL databases, and cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, or GCP. You will utilize frameworks such as LangChain, LangGraph, AutoGen, CrewAI, or Semantic Kernel, while implementing MCP servers. The role requires expertise in RAG architectures, vector databases, and ETL/ELT processes to transform complex data into intelligent solutions that power enterprise-wide decisions and automate workflows within the real estate and investment management domain.

What does a Data Engineer earn?

Median $159000 from 203 postings across 58 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Drive solution design for complex data and AI problems from initial discovery through technical blueprinting.
  • Define and communicate architecture decisions, trade-offs, and delivery approaches to technical and non-technical audiences.
  • Design and deliver production-ready working prototypes for complex data and AI problems within compressed timeframes.
  • Build and deploy AI agents and multi-agent systems using frameworks like LangChain, LangGraph, or CrewAI.
  • Implement MCP servers and clients to connect AI agents with enterprise tools, APIs, and data sources.
  • Design and implement scalable data pipelines, APIs, and backend services for internal and customer-facing products.
  • Integrate LLMs, RAG systems, and ML models into production data workflows.
  • Create technical documentation including architecture diagrams, data flow maps, and API contracts.

What we're looking for

  • 4+ years of professional software or data engineering experience, including hands-on solution design and architecture contributions.
  • Experience designing and delivering end-to-end data and AI systems from requirements through deployment.
  • Hands-on experience building AI agents, including defining agent skills, tool use, memory, and multi-step reasoning.
  • Working knowledge of MCP (Model Context Protocol) to connect agents with external systems.
  • Experience with agentic frameworks such as LangChain, LangGraph, AutoGen, CrewAI, or Semantic Kernel.
  • Strong hands-on experience with data engineering, including pipelines, ETL/ELT, data modeling, SQL, and NoSQL databases.
  • Proficiency in Python and experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and modern data stack tooling.

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