Top Senior Data Engineer Jobs in Birmingham, AL

Design, implement, and manage advanced data ecosystems and scalable ETL/ELT pipelines. Analyze complex problems, deliver data warehousing and governance solutions, mentor junior staff, and build client relationships while maintaining high standards and business-context awareness.

Lead design and implementation of enterprise data architecture and cloud-based data solutions. Manage large data engineering projects, develop data models and pipelines, ensure governance and security compliance, advise clients strategically, and build high-performing inclusive teams.

Lead design and implementation of data architecture, ETL/ELT pipelines, data models, warehouses and lakes. Ensure data governance, security, cloud deployments, performance and cost optimization. Coach and manage team members, partner with stakeholders, and drive data-driven solutions for clients.

Design and implement data architecture and scalable ETL/ELT pipelines on cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP). Analyze complex problems, mentor junior staff, ensure data governance/security compliance, liaise with stakeholders, and deliver high-quality client solutions while developing technical and client-facing skills.

Design and build data infrastructure and pipelines using cloud and big-data tools. Develop data lakes/warehouses, ensure data quality and security, collaborate with clients, and apply data architecture, transformation, and analytics to deliver insights.

Lead development and delivery of data engineering solutions for clients: design data architectures, build and maintain ETL pipelines, apply advanced analytics, implement BI visualizations, coach teams, manage managed-services SLAs, and engage stakeholders to validate and refine outcomes.

Lead data engineering engagements delivering ETL/ELT solutions, pipelines, and cloud analytics. Build and maintain architectures (DataStage, AWS/Redshift, DB2/SQL Server, GoldenGate/CDC, S3/Glue), oversee BI and visualization, manage client accounts and teams, mentor junior staff, ensure project delivery and quality, and drive process and technology adoption.

Build and operate an enterprise Databricks lakehouse: design and maintain Bronze and Silver ingestion/transformation pipelines (batch/stream/CDC), implement Unity Catalog and secure platform constructs, create CI/CD for data assets, enforce data classification and quality, and collaborate with domain teams to enable governed data for analytics.

Lead design and scaling of the data platform and analytics pipelines. Build and maintain ETL/ELT workflows, integrations, serverless data services, and reliable data models. Mentor teammates, improve automation, observability, and data governance to support analytics and operational insights.

Own and evolve the data infrastructure powering identity and fraud products. Build and operate scalable ETL/ELT pipelines, ensure data quality and observability, optimize storage and access, support product squads, respond to production incidents, mentor engineers, and drive data platform innovation.

Lead the Data Platform Engineering team owning ETL/reverse-ETL pipelines, replication, and production datastores. Define architecture, roadmap, standards (IaC, observability, schema contracts), mentor engineers, drive incident response and durable fixes, and partner on cross-team technical decisions and operational reliability for data correctness, completeness, and timeliness.

Lead architecture and implementation of scalable batch and streaming ETL/ELT pipelines, data services, and graph-serving models for Observability & Insights. Own technical strategy, drive performance and cost improvements, enforce data governance and observability, lead cross-team initiatives, participate in on-call and incident follow-through, and partner with product and engineering to deliver low-latency graph exploration at extreme scale.

As the founding engineer of the Data Intelligence team, you will design semantic layers, develop AI tooling, and automate data processes to drive business insights.

The Senior Data Engineer will design and implement scalable data models in BigQuery using dbt for analytics and reporting, ensuring data governance and optimal performance.

Design, build, and maintain cloud-based ETL pipelines and data models for finance. Implement data security (RLS), semantic layers for Power BI, monitor data integrity, support analytics/AI initiatives, and collaborate with Finance, Accounting, and IT to deliver high-quality BI solutions.

Lead design and operation of large-scale data pipelines and data APIs. Build Spark/PySpark workflows on Databricks, optimize job performance, manage data quality and observability, and develop MCP servers and AI-agent integrations. Mentor engineers, define standards, support production incidents and on-call rotations, and collaborate with stakeholders to deliver scalable data platform products.

Lead architecture and buildout of a new graph-backed enterprise data platform: design ingestion, graph and relational storage, entity resolution pipelines, temporal models, ETL/ELT pipelines, governance, APIs, and production connectors. Ship scalable graph data models, traversal queries, and platform roadmap while enabling observability, security, and containerized deployments.

Lead architecture and reliability of the data platform, build and harden ingestion (batch and CDC), own BigQuery+dbt transformations, establish testing/observability/governance, mentor engineers, develop Python tooling and APIs, run POCs for lakehouse/open table formats, and define AI-assisted development practices.

As a Data Engineer, you will develop solutions for customer-centric technology, ensuring platform integration and managing data architecture. Responsibilities include building data processes, maintaining data integrity, and collaborating cross-functionally to meet business challenges.

Design, build, and optimize enterprise-scale data pipelines on Databricks and Azure. Implement batch, streaming, CDC, and incremental ETL/ELT solutions, Delta Lake optimizations, data quality, CI/CD, and secure, production-ready data products for analytics and AI/ML initiatives.

Design, build, and maintain ETL/ELT pipelines and analytics data models from structured and event-level data. Transform clickstream/telemetry into user-level journeys, implement dbt transformations in a cloud warehouse (Redshift/Snowflake/BigQuery), develop reverse ETL workflows, enforce CI/CD/version control and automated data quality tests, and partner with BI, marketing, and product to deliver dashboards and attribution reporting.

Design, build, and operate large-scale data platforms and Spark/PySpark pipelines. Enable data integration, modeling, quality, and observability. Build MCP servers and AI-augmented tooling, mentor engineers, and lead cross-functional projects to deliver reliable data products.

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.

The role involves architecting and improving data systems, defining governance standards, optimizing performance, and mentoring engineers in data engineering.

Design, develop, and maintain enterprise data integration (ETL) systems and data platforms. Lead technical designs, optimize performance and scalability, support production issues and off-hours rotations, build reporting and BI solutions, document data processes, and collaborate with stakeholders and vendors to align business requirements.