Top Senior Data Engineer Jobs in Birmingham, AL

Architects, deploys, and operates scalable data platform infrastructure supporting analytics. Responsibilities include administering Airflow and Superset, managing Terraform infrastructure, building CI/CD pipelines, enforcing security and compliance, developing DBT data models, cataloging assets in OpenMetadata, writing Python automation, and mentoring engineers. The role requires extensive infrastructure and data engineering experience across cloud platforms, containers, data security, and workflow orchestration.

Build and operate data platform services, APIs, SDKs, schemas, validation tools, event-driven pipelines, and reverse ETL workflows. Improve Kafka-based data delivery, schema evolution, observability, lineage, access controls, privacy, and compliance. Partner with engineering, analytics, data science, security, and infrastructure teams to create reliable, self-service data workflows. Operate AWS services, infrastructure as code, monitoring, alerting, and incident response.

Design, build, and maintain Keboola-based data pipelines integrating multiple business systems to deliver accurate, scalable data for supply chain, logistics, and transportation analytics; collaborate with analysts and engineers; support documentation, governance, and pipeline automation.

Build and maintain production-grade batch and streaming data pipelines in Databricks using PySpark and SQL. Develop ingestion frameworks, data models, APIs, data quality checks, monitoring, and Medallion Architecture across bronze, silver, and gold layers. Integrate diverse data sources, optimize Spark workloads, document data lineage and architecture, and collaborate with engineering and federal stakeholders. An active Secret clearance or higher is required.

Leads the design and implementation of scalable data architectures, ETL pipelines, data warehouses, migrations, and cloud data solutions. Provides technical leadership through system analysis, requirements gathering, design documentation, code and architecture reviews, SDLC management, production deployments, and mentoring junior engineers. Develops integrations using multiple programming languages, ETL platforms, cloud services, APIs, and CI/CD tools.

Build and own Snout’s data foundation, including PostgreSQL and dbt warehouses, ingestion pipelines, dimensional models, data quality, documentation, and reliable rebuilds. Reconcile data from veterinary practice-management systems, support LLM/AI tooling, translate stakeholder needs into technical plans, and establish the foundation for a future data team and analyst.

Design, develop, and operate large-scale data ingestion, transformation, enrichment, and processing pipelines across cloud, hybrid, and on-premises environments. Build distributed services using Java, Python, and Kafka; optimize data models and platform performance; deploy applications on Kubernetes; support infrastructure automation and CI/CD; troubleshoot production systems; and collaborate with customers and solution architects on implementations.

Designs, builds, and maintains enterprise data pipelines, ETL processes, integrations, data infrastructure, and complex data models. The role supports analytics partners, develops scalable data warehouse solutions, tunes SQL and databases, troubleshoots production issues, and collaborates with architects, analysts, developers, and stakeholders. Responsibilities include end-to-end project delivery, data modeling, big data engineering, production support, agile planning, and mentoring team members.

Own and evolve UJET’s data platform, including MySQL CDC replication to BigQuery, dbt transformations, Terraform infrastructure, pipelines, data quality, observability, and Looker models. Build reliable, analytics-ready datasets and trusted metrics for internal and customer-facing reporting. Partner with Analytics, Finance, Product, and Engineering to deliver scalable data solutions, improve platform reliability, optimize performance and costs, and establish development standards and guardrails.

Lead the architecture and development of scalable AWS-based data ingestion, transformation, and orchestration pipelines. Build reliable data infrastructure using Python, SQL, Airflow, Lambda, ECS, SQS, and Terraform. Establish data modeling, quality, lineage, monitoring, testing, and observability practices while partnering with analysts, scientists, and backend engineers. Mentor senior engineers, guide technical decisions, and provide hands-on leadership for complex data platform initiatives.

Lead the architecture and development of Vercel’s next-generation data platform, supporting batch and real-time integrations, analytics, data warehousing, and AI/ML workloads. Design scalable systems using Kafka, ClickHouse, Tinybird, and Snowflake; establish data governance and security standards; guide architectural decisions and roadmaps; collaborate with engineering, product, security, compliance, and leadership teams; write production code; and mentor engineers.

Build and maintain Databricks-based data platforms, including ingestion, transformation, storage, governance, data modeling, and serving pipelines. Establish medallion architecture standards, canonical data models, quality controls, lineage, schema evolution, and reliable batch or incremental processing. Improve pipeline observability, scalability, idempotency, and recoverability while moving curated data to systems such as ClickHouse. Collaborate across application and analytics teams to create durable, governed production datasets.

Develop and optimize enterprise Oracle SQL and PL/SQL solutions, including data models, database designs, APIs, ETL processes, batch jobs, and performance tuning. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate requirements into scalable implementations, support testing and CI/CD, troubleshoot production issues, and document solutions. Provide technical leadership, mentor engineers, participate in architecture and code reviews, and drive engineering best practices across data modernization initiatives.

Design, build, and operate scalable ETL/ELT pipelines and backend data services using Go. Integrate relational, NoSQL, blockchain, API, web, and social data sources; develop NLP pipelines for text extraction and classification; and support production APIs, dashboards, alerts, and intelligence systems. Collaborate with engineering, data science, and investigations teams on architecture, data quality, lineage, validation, monitoring, and client-facing products.

Leads data engineering and data science teams, setting strategy and delivering scalable pipelines, data architecture, models, analytics infrastructure, and data governance. Partners with product, analytics, and business stakeholders to prioritize initiatives, assess upstream changes, maintain data quality, and support Snowflake-based warehousing. This hands-on leadership role includes mentoring staff, contributing to technical codebases, and advancing data science and engineering solutions.

Design, build, and maintain scalable batch and streaming data pipelines using Python, SQL, Kafka, and GCP. Develop REST and GraphQL data services, CI/CD automation, observability, and data-quality frameworks. Integrate ML and NLP models into production workflows, including continuous retraining and real-time inference. Support structured and unstructured healthcare datasets, distributed systems, microservices, and reliable data infrastructure while collaborating with data science and MLOps teams.

Build and configure a government Databricks workspace, develop ingestion and integration pipelines from enterprise and legacy systems, and prepare data for reporting. Implement Unity Catalog governance, metadata management, auditing, and lineage; configure MLflow workflows; assess security controls for sensitive data; and create architecture documentation, data dictionaries, and SOPs to support long-term sustainment.

Lead the design and optimization of healthcare data pipelines integrating EHR, payer, HIE, and vendor data. Build AWS-based ETL/ELT infrastructure, reusable integration tooling, data quality monitoring, and ML enablement foundations. Ensure HIPAA-compliant handling of clinical data, including security controls, audit logging, encryption, and de-identification. Provide technical leadership, mentor engineers, influence platform architecture, and lead complex partner integrations involving FHIR, HL7v2, CCDA, and healthcare terminology standards.

Design, build, and maintain scalable Spark-based ETL pipelines and computed tables in a central data lake. Integrate structured and unstructured IoT, sensor, and external data for analytics, model training, and dashboards. Collaborate with Data Science, Analytics, and ML teams to ensure reliable, high-quality customer-facing datasets.

Design and lead scalable, secure, highly available database infrastructure for multi-terabyte SQL Server environments. Set technical direction for data architecture, performance, real-time pipelines, security, and growth. Troubleshoot complex production issues, optimize queries and indexes, guide cross-functional projects, mentor engineers, review changes, reduce technical debt, and evaluate emerging technologies. Monitor database health using Splunk, Datadog, and Grafana while influencing engineering and Site Reliability strategy.

Build scalable, secure data pipelines, models, platforms, and governance systems that enable AI applications to access trusted enterprise data. Partner with analytics, marketing, and product teams to translate requirements into technical solutions, independently deliver projects through production, and support sensitive-data security and access controls. Preferred experience includes LLM architectures, cloud data platforms, infrastructure as code, regulated environments, and technical leadership.

Design and scale lakehouse architecture, streaming and batch pipelines, and reliable data platforms using Kafka, Spark, Airflow, Iceberg, Databricks, and related technologies. Build Medallion-layer data systems, manage open table formats, optimize distributed queries, monitor platform reliability, resolve data quality issues, and collaborate with analysts, data scientists, and product teams.

Design and optimize Snowflake data warehouses, dbt transformation models, and scalable ETL/ELT pipelines. Develop ingestion utilities, improve SQL and warehouse performance, establish data quality and governance controls, and maintain CI/CD workflows using Git. Collaborate with analysts, data scientists, and business stakeholders across manufacturing, supply chain, and operations. The role also supports modern DataOps practices and may involve orchestration tools and cloud platforms.

Designs, builds, and maintains cloud data pipelines and ETL/ELT processes supporting VA healthcare analytics. Responsibilities include patient matching, record linkage, data harmonization, quality management, documentation, performance optimization, and pipeline support. Collaborates with analysts and stakeholders to develop scalable solutions and Power BI reports using Databricks SparkSQL. The role requires federal healthcare data experience, strong SQL or Spark SQL skills, and the ability to obtain a VA Public Trust clearance.

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.