Top Senior Data Engineer Jobs in Des Moines, IA

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.

Lead a team of 5-6 data engineers to design and implement scalable data pipelines (Airflow), manage Snowflake data architecture, build real-time streaming solutions with Kafka/Spark Streaming, develop and integrate APIs, enforce code quality, and drive technical decisions and best practices.

The Senior Data Engineer will design and implement lakehouse architectures, optimize ClickHouse deployments, develop ETL/ELT pipelines, and create data models to support analytical and operational functions.

Lead design and scaling of enterprise data architecture and pipelines. Build and maintain ETL/ELT and CDC/streaming workflows, improve data quality and observability, own schema and warehouse modeling, implement governance (RBAC), and provide cross-functional technical leadership to enable trusted, scalable data for analytics and product teams.

Lead design and delivery of large-scale data pipelines and warehouse systems. Define technical strategy, enforce data governance, improve developer efficiency, mentor engineers, and align data engineering efforts with business goals to enable analytics and ML at scale.

Contract Senior Data Engineer (remote, MST) responsible for data ingestion, extraction, and integration using AWS data and analytics services. Requires a bachelor’s degree, 5+ years in data ingestion/extraction/integration, and 5+ years hands-on with the MarkLogic framework.

Lead scaling of Arbital's AWS/Databricks lakehouse and Spark pipelines, implement actuarial healthcare calculations, own Airflow orchestration and CI/CD, ensure data quality and HIPAA-compliant PHI handling, partner with data scientists to deploy ML models, and set platform architecture and engineering standards.

Design, build, and maintain scalable backend systems and data pipelines to generate point-of-care insights; collaborate with product and engineering stakeholders; mentor junior engineers; ensure solutions are secure, performant, maintainable, and support analytics and unified metrics collection.

Design, build, and deliver a global analytics platform: manage data collection and pipelines, develop visualizations and reports, create semantic models, tune performance, collaborate with IT and business stakeholders, and implement governance for analytics products.

The Senior Data Engineer will design and maintain scalable cloud-native data pipelines, develop APIs, implement advanced analytics, manage AI workflows, and enhance data operations collaboratively.

Build, maintain, and optimize cloud data pipelines and dbt models; design Airflow DAGs; implement dimensional models and BI dashboards; integrate healthcare data with HIPAA-compliant practices; contribute to RAG pipelines and MLOps workflows; review contractor code, monitor data quality, and document designs following governance standards.

The Senior Data Engineer will design and build data pipelines and infrastructure to support data science and business intelligence solutions, utilizing AWS services and streaming technologies.

As a Senior Data Engineer, you will design and optimize data pipelines, enhance system efficiency, and collaborate with teams to drive health outcomes using large healthcare datasets.

Lead data engineering for a healthcare scheduling platform rebuild: map legacy multi-TB schema, design target schema, build translation layer (views/materialized views and write mappers), ensure data consistency during parallel systems, plan per-tenant cutover with verification and rollback, tune DB performance, instrument data quality/lineage/audit, and mentor engineers.

Design, build, and scale reliable batch and real-time data pipelines and warehouses. Partner with engineering, data science, and business teams to define data models, improve observability, optimize storage and querying, and evangelize data engineering best practices across the company.

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.

Design, build, and maintain scalable Databricks-based data pipelines and ELT workflows; develop and document dbt models; define data modeling methodology; ensure data quality, reliability, and scalability; collaborate with clients and cross-functional teams; provide technical guidance and deliver improvements to clients' data infrastructure and analytics capabilities.

As a Senior Data Engineer, you will manage data pipelines, ensure data quality, partner with teams for data-driven decisions, and improve the data platform while maintaining data integrity.

The Senior Data Engineer will create and manage data pipelines, ensuring data quality, collaborating with teams for data-driven decisions, and evolving the data platform.

Lead delivery of enterprise data governance, MDM, and modern data-platform components including Snowflake, CDC pipelines, schema-first contracts (JSON Schema/Avro/Protobuf), data catalog and PII classification, CI/CD schema management, AWS data services, and day-to-day leadership of an offshore delivery team.

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.

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.