Digital Solutions - Data Engineer

Posted Thursday, February 26, 2026 at 8:00 AM

At Light Box, we strive to not only equip confident, data-driven decisions across sectors, but to also enrich lives by bringing people, information, and technology together. As a company with a wide range of clients, we believe a diverse workforce is crucial to success. Our commitment to inclusion across race, gender, age, religion, identity, and experience is the foundation upon which we operate and connect with our customers and the communities in which we work.

With our expertise, we are producing the best available data, workflow tools, technology, and analytics to support everyone making a real estate decision. There has never been a better time to make an impact and we invite you to join us on this journey.

Light Box is a leading provider of data and workflow solutions across commercial real estate and location intelligence. Our solutions deliver the depth, speed and accuracy that enable insights to over 50,000 brokers, 1,000 banks and lenders, 1,000 law firms and 5,000 environmental consulting and engineering firms.

Light Box is the world’s leading platform for commercial real estate information and technology. We empower decision-makers with authoritative data, integrated workflows, and unparalleled industry connections. Our clientele includes commercial and government agencies, brokers, developers, investors, lenders, insurers, technology providers, environmental consultants, and valuation professionals - all requiring definitive real estate data and robust workflow solutions.

Our expertise enables us to deliver the highest quality data, workflow tools, technology, and analytics to support location-based decision-making. There has never been a better time to make an impact. Join us on this journey and help shape the future of real estate.

The Digital Solutions ("Professional Services") team at Light Box plays a crucial role in delivering tailored solutions and support to our clients. We ensure seamless integration and optimal use of Light Box's data and technology platforms, providing expert guidance and ongoing support to maximize the value of our tools. Leveraging industry knowledge and technical expertise, the Digital Solutions team helps clients streamline workflows, enhance data accuracy, and achieve superior decision-making outcomes.

As a Digital Solutions Data Engineer at Light Box, you will be responsible for designing, building, validating, and delivering data solutions to our customers.

Reporting to the Director of Digital Solutions, the Data Engineer will:

• Fulfill Light Box’s custom data deliveries to clients.
• Develop an in-depth understanding of Light Box data assets, infrastructure, and software, such as Land Vision and Spatial Stream.
• Analyze use cases and propose solutions to meet business objectives.
• Assess client requirements and develop data/software solutions accordingly.
• Model and architect data to address business problems.
• Analyze and resolve technical data and application issues.
• Create and maintain data pipelines to prepare and manage data for specific use cases.
• Develop, test, and document automated ETL (extract, transform, load) processes to meet business needs.
• Adhere to high-quality development principles while delivering solutions on time and within budget.
• Migrate existing workflows to newer infrastructures.
• Utilize SQL, ESRI ArcGIS, and other open-source GIS software to transform, enrich, and extend Light Box data assets for client delivery.
• Document data processing methodologies, best practices, and workflows concisely.
• Aggregate data from various sources and apply analytical techniques to uncover valuable insights and solve complex issues.
• Provide support, troubleshooting, modifications, enhancements, and maintenance for existing geospatial data processing scripts and tools.
• Develop data acceptance criteria, quality assurance plans, and automated testing routines.
• Investigate data-related issues and develop resolutions.
• Create tools and workflows to automate existing processes.

• Bachelor’s degree or certificate in GIS, Geography,…