Top Data Engineer Jobs in Des Moines, IA

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.

Administer and enhance Edmunds’ Databricks data platform and AWS infrastructure. Build and maintain ETL pipelines, infrastructure-as-code tooling using Terraform or CDK, and operational dashboards, alerts, and reports. Collaborate with business, engineering, analytics, security, and infrastructure teams to support data platform users and AI solutions. Evaluate new technologies, troubleshoot platform issues, and improve operational, cost, and security visibility.

Own Eve’s data platform end to end, including ingestion, orchestration, incremental dbt models, Snowflake administration, Terraform infrastructure, observability, access controls, and pipeline reliability. Build schema-change detection, freshness SLAs, CI environments, and incident processes while managing performance and compute costs. Partner with analytics engineers and stakeholders to maintain trusted data for reporting and AI systems, using AI-assisted development and documenting platform standards.

Design, build, and operate scalable batch and streaming data pipelines, lakehouse and warehouse models, and data services. Own datasets end to end, improve Snowflake, Iceberg, Spark, and Flink performance and reliability, implement governance and observability, and support graph-serving data models. Partner with product and engineering teams, participate in on-call, review code and designs, and mentor junior engineers.

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).

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.

Design and manage financial systems for accurate cashback calculations, build and maintain reconciliation processes, ensure data integrity for yield-bearing instruments, collaborate with compliance, and partner with cross-functional teams to improve financial system efficiency.

Lead architecture, development, and optimization of a cloud-native data platform. Design high-volume batch and streaming pipelines, optimize data processing across AWS, Snowflake, Redshift, and Athena, and implement Iceberg-based data management. Establish security, privacy, observability, and DataOps practices while mentoring engineers, guiding technical direction, collaborating with data science teams, and delivering scalable petabyte-level data infrastructure.

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.

Designs, builds, tests, and documents scalable data solutions and pipelines for CMS healthcare fraud, waste, and abuse initiatives. Responsibilities include data warehouse development, CI/CD deployment, orchestration, data quality, governance, AWS-based automation, testing, architecture support, and technical leadership. The role partners with analysts and business stakeholders, leads project initiatives, improves workflow automation, and ensures requirements and milestones are met.

Builds and maintains scalable data pipelines, ETL/ELT infrastructure, analytics platforms, and data delivery frameworks. Responsibilities include data modeling, SQL optimization, quality assurance, governance, troubleshooting, cloud-based big data processing, and stakeholder support. The role also improves data infrastructure scalability, documents processes, educates users on data literacy, and provides guidance to junior staff. Requires a bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience and at least four years of relevant data engineering or analytics experience.

Develops enterprise data pipelines, streaming ingestion systems, AWS data lakes, Snowflake warehouses, analytics solutions, and MarkLogic integrations. Designs data and software architectures, REST APIs, and JavaScript modules while supporting Agile software development. Requires extensive experience with AWS data services, Python, JavaScript, Java, databases, ETL, web development, data integration, and enterprise information architecture.

Build and operate production pipelines for legal records from PACER, court systems, opinions, PDFs, scans, XML, and HTML. Develop LLM-assisted extraction workflows, validate data quality, optimize SQL, and support RAG and semantic search products. Manage AWS S3 and RDS systems within security guardrails while collaborating with engineering teams. The role requires strong Python and SQL skills, legal data experience, document extraction expertise, and autonomous problem-solving with large, messy datasets.

Architects, builds, tests, and maintains scalable data infrastructure and ELT/ETL pipelines using AWS Glue, Glue Catalog, and Step Functions. Performs data modeling, SQL querying, data migration, schema optimization, validation, and data quality improvements. Partners with analytics and business teams to transform raw data into production-ready datasets. The role may also support AI/ML pipelines, governance, access controls, DevOps workflows, and real-time data architectures.

Build and maintain data pipelines for network and operational telemetry, integrate DataMiner and other monitoring systems, create Power BI dashboards, configure monitoring metrics and alerts, automate reporting, analyze network performance and recovery events, and translate technical findings into actionable insights for technical and executive stakeholders.

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.

The Data Engineer will develop and maintain data pipelines, perform data extraction and transformation, and support data analytics across the enterprise.

Design, build, and maintain scalable data pipelines, data lakes, and databases; ingest and map customer financial datasets; monitor pipeline reliability; translate business requirements into data flows and analytical insights to ensure high-quality, usable data.

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 operates scalable batch and streaming data pipelines on Databricks for federal missions. Responsibilities include developing Spark and Delta Lake solutions, managing clusters and workflows, implementing Unity Catalog governance and security, optimizing ETL/ELT processes, integrating CI/CD, supporting machine learning and advanced analytics, monitoring data quality, and collaborating with technical teams and stakeholders.

Support design, development, and maintenance of data pipelines and infrastructure. Assist with ETL/ELT workflows, data ingestion, cleaning, validation, modeling, and warehousing. Document processes and collaborate with data teams to support analytics use cases.

Designs and maintains data warehouse infrastructure, semantic and dimensional models, metrics layers, dashboards, reporting, and secure data pipelines. Builds governed self-service analytics in Sigma, Power BI, and Databricks; defines KPIs and data standards; implements row-level security and Entra ID controls; supports data quality, observability, AI/ML use cases, and BI adoption. Collaborates with technical and business stakeholders in an Agile-Scrum environment.

Build and maintain production data ingestion pipelines, transformation models, warehouses, and schemas for PerfectServe’s data platform. Deploy reliable, tested pipelines using idempotency and data-quality checks, apply dimensional and medallion modeling, participate in design reviews, and document owned pipelines and runbooks. The role requires SQL, programming experience, dbt or similar transformation tools, cloud data warehouse experience, ELT orchestration, AWS knowledge, and a strong data-testing mindset.

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.