Top Data Engineer Jobs in Birmingham, AL

Technical leader for Data Engineering responsible for designing, operating, and optimizing Snowflake-based data platforms, self-hosted orchestration (Prefect), dbt practices, AWS infrastructure, and data pipelines. Drive architecture, mentor engineers, partner cross-functionally, ensure observability and production-grade practices, and enable model-ready datasets and AI/LLM workflows.

Lead data engineering teams to design, build, and maintain scalable cloud-native data pipelines, data platforms, and data products using Snowflake, Databricks, Airflow, and modern architectures. Optimize ETL/ELT, SQL, and transformations for analytics, reporting, and AI use cases; ensure data quality, governance, observability, and stakeholder alignment. Produce documentation, runbooks, and present technical solutions to business and technical audiences.

Design, build, and optimize scalable batch and streaming data pipelines. Model and process structured and unstructured data, ensure production reliability and observability, apply ML techniques for insight extraction, and drive data strategy while adopting modern tooling and IaC practices.

Own and evolve the data platform: architect, build, and maintain data models, pipelines, and access layers. Ensure data quality, governance, and reliability; monitor and optimize infrastructure; provide technical leadership, code reviews, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver scalable data solutions for operations and analytics.

Build and maintain scalable data pipelines and Python automations for ingesting, processing, and enriching data. Integrate SaaS sources via APIs, use Databricks/PySpark/Delta Lake and AI tools to power lead generation, enrichment, deduplication, and entity resolution. Collaborate cross-functionally to translate business needs into automated, production-ready solutions.

The Senior Data Engineer will design and build scalable data platforms, handle automation for data operations, and ensure reliability and performance of data pipelines while collaborating with various teams.

Build end-to-end data and analytics features: ingest and model data, build transformations and pipelines, create client-facing dashboards and interfaces, and develop LLM-powered workflows to accelerate analysis and app development. Partner with stakeholders, perform exploratory analyses, and ensure data quality, observability, and maintainability while influencing data engineering strategy.

Lead architecture, implementation, and optimization of scalable data platforms, ETL/ELT pipelines, and data governance. Ensure security and compliance, mentor junior engineers, drive CI/CD and IaC for data workflows, and collaborate with stakeholders to deliver actionable analytics and reporting.

Design, build, and maintain scalable distributed data pipelines and a secure data lakehouse for streaming and batch processing to support real-time analytics, ML, and experimentation. Automate, test, and harden workflows, architect logical and physical data models, build ML model features, and collaborate with product, analytics, and data science teams to turn data into value.