Top Data Engineer Jobs in Baltimore, MD

Build and scale Benepass’s data platform, including warehouses, replication pipelines, orchestration, dbt transformations, semantic models, and data quality systems. Own platform reliability, governance, security, performance, cost optimization, and developer experience. Partner with Product, Engineering, Operations, GTM, Finance, analysts, and data scientists to deliver trusted reporting and analytics infrastructure. Shape the data platform roadmap, evaluate new technologies, and mentor cross-functional partners as a senior individual contributor.

Leads the architecture, development, and maintenance of scalable batch and real-time data pipelines, cloud data platforms, ETL/ELT workflows, and ML data infrastructure. Establishes standards for data quality, observability, lineage, governance, security, and modeling. Partners with data scientists, engineers, DevOps, and business stakeholders; evaluates technologies, drives technical initiatives, mentors engineers, and supports production-grade APIs and machine learning pipelines.

Lead Data Engineer responsible for designing, maintaining, and improving data pipelines and platform infrastructure across ingestion, streaming, transformation, and delivery. The role uses Airflow, Spark, Iceberg, Kafka, Flink, dbt, Terraform, and GCP. Responsibilities also include defining data contracts, documenting systems, optimizing performance, reviewing code, supporting access controls and compliance, and collaborating with stakeholders and teammates.

Leads a data engineering team and supervises one Data Engineer while designing, maintaining, and optimizing reliable data pipelines and infrastructure. The role integrates internal and external data sources, supports SaaS analytics dashboards and connected platforms, improves data-store performance, and ensures infrastructure quality, security, and uptime. Requires proficiency in Python, databases, distributed processing, orchestration, AWS, and machine learning.

Maintain and administer Microsoft SQL Server databases supporting healthcare research administration, compliance, reporting, and operations. Design schemas and tables; develop and optimize stored procedures, queries, scripts, utilities, and reports; manage scheduled jobs; monitor performance, security, backups, recovery, and data integrity; troubleshoot database and application issues; coordinate with web developers; document solutions; and provide technical recommendations to research leaders.

Leads data engineering teams in designing, developing, and supporting scalable batch and streaming data solutions. Responsibilities include data pipeline development, architecture, governance, security, platform optimization, production support, technical mentorship, stakeholder collaboration, and delivery leadership. The role requires hands-on engineering with Python or similar languages, modern data technologies, cloud platforms, DevOps practices, and people-management responsibilities.

Develops and supports Oracle database solutions, including complex SQL and PL/SQL objects, performance tuning, security, data governance, quality management, and migration initiatives. Performs ETL/ELT, data validation, reconciliation, conversion, and post-migration verification while maintaining metadata, lineage, documentation, and data dictionaries. Collaborates with data owners, developers, DBAs, business users, and project managers. Requires five or more years of Oracle development experience and an active TS/SCI clearance with polygraph.

Design, build, and optimize scalable AWS and Snowflake data pipelines, databases, data models, and cloud-based solutions. Implement ETL/ELT workflows, data quality and monitoring frameworks, CI/CD pipelines, automated recovery, documentation, and performance improvements. Collaborate with stakeholders and cross-functional teams in an Agile environment while conducting advanced analysis using Python and SQL.

Supports the design and development of scalable end-to-end data pipelines and cloud data platforms. Responsibilities include improving data reliability and quality, implementing data management practices, supporting automation and process improvements, ensuring secure and cost-effective solutions, and recommending system enhancements. The intern collaborates with global teams and gains hands-on experience in data engineering, project coordination, and innovation management.

The Principal Data Engineer designs and builds scalable cloud-native data platforms, pipelines, frameworks, and governed data products supporting analytics, reporting, AI, and operational workloads. Responsibilities include Databricks, Spark, Delta Lake, Azure, SQL Server, batch and streaming processing, data integration, performance optimization, governance, modernization, troubleshooting, architecture reviews, and mentorship. The role provides senior technical leadership without direct people management and supports insurance-domain data across policy, claims, billing, finance, and regulatory functions.

Designs and maintains ELT pipelines, warehouse integrations, data models, and data quality processes. Collaborates with data scientists, analysts, engineers, and stakeholders to deliver scalable analytical solutions. Responsibilities include data integration, governance, security, performance optimization, exploratory analysis, visualization, and cloud-based API ingestion. Requires strong SQL, DBT, Snowflake, Azure Data Factory, cloud, and scripting experience, plus leadership and communication skills.

The Forward Deployed Data Engineer will manage AI-automated data platform migration projects, ensuring timely delivery and communication with clients while utilizing proprietary tools.

Develops scalable data and software systems using Python and Apache Spark. Designs APIs, data models, ETL workflows, orchestration, and data interactions while optimizing performance, scalability, integrity, and security. Builds user interfaces, contributes to automated testing, applies Agile practices, and supports CI/CD delivery. The role requires strong software engineering, distributed computing, analytical, and communication skills, with AWS, R, Databricks, and SAS experience preferred.

Lead production of federal species range maps for marine and anadromous taxa. Aggregate, normalize, transform, and validate spatial data; analyze habitat intersects; coordinate iterative reviews with FWS and NOAA SMEs; prepare QA documentation; and secure government sign-off for map deliverables.

Design, develop, and maintain Customer Data Platform solutions and data pipelines to create unified customer profiles, manage identity resolution, enable audience segmentation and activation, ensure data quality and governance, and support integrations with marketing, CRM, and cloud data systems.

Manage Oracle and PostgreSQL databases across on-premises and AWS environments, including upgrades, migrations, performance tuning, security, and backup recovery. Design and maintain ETL pipelines using Talend, SQL, Power Automate, and related tools. Perform data profiling, quality analysis, governance, and cloud migration activities. Create technical architecture and lineage documentation while supporting regulated, audit-ready data platforms and integrations.

Build and operate reliable ETL and ELT pipelines across lakehouse and transactional systems. Develop data models, enforce governance, integrate diverse data sources, and support analytics, APIs, and predictive tools. Monitor performance, data quality, lineage, cost, and uptime while collaborating with data science, AI, product, and innovation teams.

Build and maintain cloud cost monitoring, alerting, and optimization tooling. Develop automation, cost allocation/tagging, data pipelines, dashboards, and integrations with billing APIs. Support FinOps processes, implement cost guardrails, troubleshoot cost systems, participate in on-call rotation, and collaborate with senior engineers and product teams to drive cost-efficient infrastructure and reporting.

Build and maintain automated ETL/ELT data pipelines, improve data quality and monitoring, optimize Postgres and BigQuery schemas and queries, develop internal tooling, support data governance (HIPAA), participate in on-call rotation, and collaborate across engineering teams to scale data systems.

Design, build, and maintain scalable big data pipelines, architectures, distributed databases, and storage systems. Use Python and frameworks such as Hadoop, Spark, or Flink for data integration, transformation, and processing. Ensure system performance, availability, security, governance, and data quality while collaborating with cross-functional teams and documenting technical solutions.

Designs, builds, and maintains enterprise data pipelines, ETL processes, integrations, cloud data infrastructure, and complex data models. Supports analytics partners, develops data warehouse solutions, tunes SQL and database performance, troubleshoots production issues, and delivers end-to-end data engineering projects. The role collaborates with architects, analysts, developers, and business stakeholders, applies big data technologies, supports agile delivery, and mentors team members.

Design and build a durable data storage platform that preserves source disagreements, provenance, uncertainty, historical versions, and evidence. Develop result and evidence stores, lineage tracking, versioned rules and configurations, reproducible decision records, and point-in-time entity views. Collaborate with entity-resolution and machine-learning teams to support probabilistic outputs. The role requires production data engineering experience, strong Python and SQL, PostgreSQL expertise, U.S. citizenship, and an active Secret clearance.

Designs and implements scalable software solutions, develops maintainable features, resolves bugs, optimizes performance, and writes automated tests. Participates in architecture discussions, code reviews, Agile planning, CI/CD, observability, and adoption of AI-assisted engineering tools. Collaborates with QA, Product Management, and DevOps to deliver software across web, desktop, cloud, and IoT environments. The role is remote for candidates in the Seattle or Los Angeles metropolitan areas, with quarterly travel to Los Angeles.

Lead the Ads Signals & Measurement data engineering team across conversion and attribution, measurement foundations, audience onboarding, and identity. Set cross-organizational technical direction, resolve scalable data architecture decisions, mentor engineers, and partner on platform-wide initiatives. The role requires expertise in modern data stacks, advertising technology data flows, privacy and governance, distributed systems, and emerging AI technologies.

Own and evolve end-to-end data pipeline architecture across ingestion, transformation, modeling, and serving. Lead platform improvements for cost efficiency, reliability, access control, observability, orchestration, CI/CD, and developer experience. Drive complex cross-team initiatives, resolve production issues, influence architectural decisions, mentor engineers, and build automation incorporating AI into data engineering workflows.