Top Data Engineer Jobs in Birmingham, AL

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.

Design, build, and maintain scalable ELT data pipelines and models to power reporting, analytics, and operational workflows. Troubleshoot data quality and performance, participate in incident response, support CI/CD deployments, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and contribute to data platform modernization and engineering best practices.

The Data Engineer IV is responsible for designing and building data pipelines, implementing transformation logic, ensuring data quality, optimizing data infrastructure, and collaborating with stakeholders. This role requires advanced skills in data engineering, management of projects, and mentoring of junior developers.

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

The Data Engineer will build and maintain scalable data pipelines, ensure data quality, and collaborate with teams to meet data requirements for federal government projects.

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.

As the first in-house Data Engineer, you will own the data infrastructure, build and maintain data pipelines, and collaborate with teams to ensure quality data access and insights.

Build and operate data-intensive web products and APIs, extend high-throughput ETL pipelines and scrapers, ensure reliability/observability, design self-scaling services, participate in code review, and collaborate across product, data, and infrastructure teams to meet production SLAs.

Develop and maintain Python-based data applications and pipelines: fetch data from databases/APIs/files, build Pandas DataFrames/NumPy arrays, write complex SQL and data transformations, handle nested JSON, and collaborate with data science teams to deliver production data platforms.

Build and maintain ETL/ELT pipelines, ingest and transform structured and unstructured data, integrate APIs and external sources, improve data quality and monitoring, support dashboards and ML pipelines, optimize warehouse and cloud performance, and contribute to data governance and documentation.

Build and maintain large-scale data processing pipelines using Apache Spark (PySpark/Scala) and Python. Design ETL workflows, implement distributed data processing, use version control (Git), and work with cloud platforms (GCP/AWS/Azure).

As a Data Engineer, you will build and optimize data pipelines, ensuring accurate data delivery that informs pricing and market analytics at Alt.

The Senior Bioinformatics Data Engineer will build data pipelines, implement clinical data ingestion, and optimize platform infrastructure while ensuring data quality and compliance with legal standards.

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.

Define and lead the technical architecture for a lakehouse on AWS, build production pipelines and data models for time-series and multi-source data, introduce data governance and catalog foundations, author platform playbooks (ADRs, runbooks, Terraform modules), deliver projects end-to-end, and mentor engineers while representing the platform to senior leadership and non-technical stakeholders.

Design, build, and operate large-scale AWS-based ETL pipelines using Glue/PySpark to ingest, transform, and curate multi-format data into Apache Iceberg tables. Ensure data quality, metadata management, semantic layer creation (Trino/Athena), CloudFormation deployments, documentation, and compliance within a FedRAMP federal agile environment.

Serve as a data quality and QA engineer on a federal data platform: build automated AWS Glue/Deequ data quality checks, validate schemas and ETL pipelines, create and run unit/integration tests with 90% coverage, support IV&V and UAT, perform static/security scans, produce test documentation, monitor production ETL, and collaborate with data stewards and IV&V teams.

The job involves leveraging AWS and Snowflake for data engineering tasks within a technology-focused company, requiring US residency.

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.

Design, build, and maintain scalable Azure data pipelines and platforms using Azure Databricks, Synapse, Fabric, and Data Factory. Implement IaC (Bicep/ARM/Terraform), CI/CD with Azure DevOps, optimize Spark jobs, monitor platform stability, and collaborate with architects, BI developers, and clients to meet Azure best practices and business requirements.

Lead technical strategy and roadmap for an enterprise Databricks-based data platform. Drive governance, metadata, lineage, and semantic layer standards; build reusable data products; enable self-service analytics and scalable ML operations; mentor engineers and align platform investments with business outcomes.

Lead design and delivery of a cloud-based data platform: implement CDC/streaming ingestion, modeling, transformations, cross-region DB replication, observability, governance (PII, lineage, access), and enable downstream marts while mentoring engineers and driving IaC/automation-first practices.

Design, build, and maintain scalable ETL/data pipelines across distributed systems. Ensure data quality, integrity, security, and high availability. Monitor and optimize pipeline performance, perform root cause analysis, document systems, collaborate with global teams, and participate in on-call rotations to support production data systems.

Lead extraction, mapping, cleaning, transforming, and importing complex donor and fundraising data from legacy systems into Virtuous. Use SQL and dbt to design ETL transformations, collaborate on migration strategy, work with customers and internal teams, and solve complex data structure and relationship issues to align legacy data with Virtuous CRM best practices.

Design, build, deploy, and operate scalable production data pipelines and workflows (Airflow, BigQuery, dbt). Own medium-sized platform initiatives end-to-end, ensure SLA-driven freshness, quality, and cost controls, implement monitoring and CI/CD, participate in on-call incident response, optimize warehouse performance, and collaborate with analytics, data science, product, and engineering stakeholders.