Top Senior Data Engineer Jobs in Birmingham, AL

In this role, you'll build and scale high-throughput data pipelines, ensure data quality, and leverage AI for improved data operations. You'll also lead initiatives in a fast-paced environment focused on real estate data engineering.

Design, build, and own Sardine's internal data platform and billing infrastructure. Implement and maintain ETL/ELT pipelines, warehouse partitioning, access controls, and data governance. Partner with stakeholders to define KPIs, produce dashboards, and ensure data quality for executive, GTM, product, and finance teams.

The job involves building responsive web dashboards, advanced data visualizations, and analytics tools for unmanned aircraft systems, requiring a deep understanding of UI/UX design and data presentation.

Lead design, build, and maintain scalable data pipelines and infrastructure using Azure Databricks, ADF, and SQL Server. Develop OLTP and dimensional models, integrate Salesforce and SaaS sources, implement batch and real-time processing, enforce data governance and CI/CD, troubleshoot performance, mentor team members, and drive improvements to reduce technical debt and improve cost and performance.

Lead design and hands-on delivery of a next-generation data platform and pipelines (batch, ELT, near-real-time) powering BI, experimentation, and ML. Own platform architecture, data modeling, governance, observability, and mentor engineers while modernizing legacy systems and driving AI-first data engineering practices across cross-functional teams.

Lead end-to-end data engineering on GCP: design scalable data platforms and architectures (lake/lakehouse/warehouse), build and optimize BigQuery/Spark pipelines, ensure data quality/security, enable ML workflows with Data Science, mentor engineers, and own delivery and performance.

Design, build, and optimize scalable AWS-based data pipelines, data lakes, and warehouses. Migrate legacy systems, enforce data quality/security/governance, implement ETL/ELT and big-data solutions, adopt CI/CD and IaC, collaborate with stakeholders, and provide technical leadership and troubleshooting.

Lead architecture and delivery of a cloud-native, petabyte-scale data platform: define technical roadmap, mentor engineers, build ETL/ELT pipelines, enable real-time streaming, implement Iceberg table format, optimize Snowflake/Redshift/Athena compute, and integrate observability with Splunk.

Design, build, and maintain scalable data pipelines on AWS using EMR, Spark, and PySpark. Optimize EMR clusters and Spark jobs, implement ETL/ELT processes, ensure data quality, automate ingestion, and collaborate with data scientists and analysts. Document infrastructure, participate in code reviews, and monitor performance and costs.

Design, build, and maintain ETL/ELT data pipelines and orchestration using Airflow, Python, and PySpark. Develop custom connectors, implement DataOps and CI/CD for data workflows, monitor and troubleshoot pipelines, validate data quality, and document processes while collaborating with cross-functional teams and supporting large-scale distributed data systems.

Design, build, modernize, and maintain operational and analytical data capabilities for Wealthscape Reporting, Analytics and Insights. Perform solution design, data analysis, ETL development, and production rollouts using Snowflake, AWS, cloud databases, and CI/CD pipelines. Collaborate across teams in a fast-paced financial services environment.

Design, build, and maintain scalable data pipelines, lakes, and infrastructure using Databricks, Spark, Python, and AWS. Collaborate with ML engineers, data scientists, and analysts to deliver data products, ensure data quality and governance, implement DevOps/SDLC practices, mentor junior engineers, and evaluate new data technologies.

Lead design, build, and operate real-time, Flink-based streaming data platforms. Develop low-latency, stateful pipelines, enforce event schemas/contracts, ensure fault tolerance and observability, mentor engineers, and partner with architecture and compliance teams to deliver resilient streaming solutions for banking use cases.

Lead graph data engineering to design, implement, and scale Neo4j-based graph platforms. Build graph models, ingestion pipelines (batch and streaming), integrate graphs with analytics/ML, establish governance, and enable graph-driven business use cases like fraud detection and Customer 360.

Lead architecture and implementation of a large-scale analytics stack: design foundational pipelines, establish modeling/orchestration standards, integrate AI-assisted engineering tools, translate business questions into version-controlled data models, partner with stakeholders to define metrics and data contracts, migrate logic into maintainable pipelines, and optimize cloud warehouse performance for scale.

Design, build, and optimize Snowflake-based data warehouses and dbt transformation pipelines. Develop scalable ETL/ELT ingestion, tune SQL and warehouse performance, implement data quality/testing (dbt tests), and maintain CI/CD and version-controlled data workflows while collaborating with analysts, data scientists, and stakeholders.

Design, implement, and maintain automated data testing and validation frameworks to ensure data integrity across ETL/ELT pipelines and reporting. Develop reconciliation, profiling, and automated test scripts; embed quality controls into Snowflake, Oracle, and AWS pipelines; support test environment strategy and governance; collaborate with engineers, QA, and stakeholders to improve DataOps, monitoring, and reporting validation while mentoring junior team members.

The Data Engineer III will lead the development and maintenance of data infrastructure and tools, ensuring data integrity while driving strategic data initiatives.

The Data Engineer will design and maintain data pipelines, enhance the data warehouse, support machine learning applications, and collaborate with various teams to leverage data effectively.

As a Senior Forward Deployed Data Engineer, you will design and implement data pipelines for media agency clients, manage technical delivery, and ensure data security while mentoring junior engineers and communicating effectively with stakeholders.

As a Data Engineer, you will design and maintain data pipelines, support DoD systems, and ensure data quality and compliance.

The Data Engineer is responsible for designing data workflows and pipelines, implementing systems engineering principles, and deploying data streaming technologies while ensuring compliance with industry regulations and best practices.

Forward-deployed senior data engineer who deploys, hardens, integrates, and operates a data platform (lakehouse, streaming, governance) in DoD environments. Build pipelines across classification boundaries, produce accreditation evidence (STIG/cATO/FIPS), run day-2 operations, train mission teams, and mentor junior FDEs while feeding field feedback into product improvements.

Owner of data platform modernization: design and migrate legacy systems to Kimball-style dimensional models and star schemas; build reliable production data pipelines; enforce data hygiene and validation; champion dbt best practices; mentor junior engineers; collaborate with analysts and stakeholders to ensure scalable, well-documented data models and platform observability.

Build and own data platform infrastructure and scalable pipelines (ingestion, orchestration, transformation, delivery). Define governance, observability, and AI-first architecture. Optimize performance, ensure data quality, mentor engineers, and integrate AI-assisted tooling.