Top Senior Data Engineer Jobs in Des Moines, IA

The Lead Data Platform Engineer will design and build Virtuous's data platform, ensuring it is secure, scalable, and AI-ready. Responsibilities include architecting access controls, optimizing performance, and enabling self-service analytics while maintaining governance and compliance standards.

Design, build, and maintain scalable ETL/ELT data pipelines and analytical platforms on AWS and Databricks. Migrate legacy workflows to cloud-native services, implement data lake and catalog solutions, enable AI/RAG/vector search, ensure FedRAMP/NIST compliance, optimize performance, and mentor junior engineers while collaborating in Agile teams.

Lead Data Engineer responsible for defining architecture, engineering standards, and best practices for the enterprise data platform, collaborating with distributed teams for modernization and scalability.

Designs and delivers a global analytics platform supporting reporting, visualizations, self-service analytics, and embedded data products. Responsibilities include data collection and processing, semantic modeling, warehouse and pipeline development, query optimization, governance, analytics enablement, and stakeholder collaboration. The role provides actionable insights from complex travel data and builds integrated analytics applications using cloud platforms and business intelligence tools.

Designs and maintains Snowflake-based cloud data pipelines and lake architectures for asset-based finance and mortgage servicing analytics. Leads legacy-system migrations, ETL/ELT development, data validation, reconciliation, and financial integrity controls. Translates business requirements into Jira epics and user stories, supports project planning, testing, cutover, and go-live readiness, and coordinates with business, finance, operations, and technical stakeholders.

Design and scale Zip’s enterprise data and AI platform across batch, streaming, structured, and unstructured workloads. Build reliable pipelines, AI-ready data products, semantic models, vector and hybrid search, and RAG capabilities. Establish standards for modeling, testing, governance, security, observability, and automation. Partner with engineering, data science, product, and business teams while mentoring engineers and influencing platform architecture.

Design and build modern GCP lakehouse architectures, including Python and Spark pipelines, BigQuery ingestion, Kafka CDC, Delta Lake and Iceberg UniForm integrations, Delta Sharing endpoints, Snowflake and Databricks connectivity, data lineage, governed access controls, and semantic-layer alignment. Collaborate cross-functionally, troubleshoot full-stack issues, and deliver reusable data-sharing adapters and end-to-end data features.

Leads enterprise data engineering initiatives by designing and optimizing data pipelines, data lakes, warehouses, and analytics infrastructure. Uses Snowflake, Informatica, SQL, and related technologies to integrate diverse data sources, improve data quality, secure PII, and support analytics and data science teams. Establishes governance, monitoring, scalability, performance, and cost-efficiency practices while mentoring teammates and partnering with stakeholders on complex technical solutions.

Leads data and analytics engineering for Zero Trust maturity assessment and implementation measurement. Designs common data models, integrates and validates enterprise data, develops maturity and risk metrics, supports prioritization and gap analysis, and establishes data quality, lineage, traceability, and documentation practices. Partners with dashboard and automation specialists to streamline reporting and data refresh workflows.

Own and operate the Snowflake warehouse and Sigma semantic layer; manage ingestion (Fivetran), dbt model scoping and review, reverse-ETL, data quality SLAs, dashboards, month-end financial analytics, vendor management, and automation to support AdOps, Sales, Finance, and executive reporting.

Design, build, and maintain scalable ETL/ELT data pipelines and data platform architecture. Build programmatic pipelines (primarily Python), optimize analytical data models (SQL), integrate sources into Snowflake, use orchestration/transformation tools (dbt, Airflow, Dagster), improve data quality/observability, and partner with product, engineering, and analytics to deliver reliable data for decision-making.

Designs and operates scalable serverless AWS data pipelines, data models, ETL/ELT workflows, feature stores, and analytics-ready data assets. Partners with AI, Analytics, Product, and Underwriting teams to support reproducible ML training and scoring, MLOps, data quality, monitoring, governance, and production troubleshooting. The role handles sensitive healthcare and financial data, optimizes serverless workloads, supports batch and near-real-time processing, and applies infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD, documentation, and responsible data-use practices.

Design, build, and maintain scalable data pipelines and integrations across AWS, Azure, and BigQuery. Normalize, aggregate, and ensure data quality for large web and transactional datasets, leveraging APIs, ETL/orchestration tools, and big-data technologies to support analytics and BI in an e-commerce environment.

Lead performance investigations across the data product stack to diagnose and fix slow queries and UX issues. Design data architecture changes, build benchmarks, measure latency/throughput/cost (ClickHouse Cloud), prototype solutions, instrument monitoring, and partner with product and engineering to balance responsiveness, scalability, and cost.

Founding data engineer to design and build Payabli's data platform: architect lakehouse/warehouse, build batch and streaming pipelines, model canonical datasets, ensure data quality/observability, enforce access/masking/lineage for regulated financial data, and enable analytics/ML feature pipelines while establishing team standards and CI/CD.

Lead design and delivery of scalable production data pipelines and data products (Spark/Python/SQL) on Databricks; integrate diverse federal health systems, define reusable ingestion patterns, ensure data quality/governance, mentor engineers, and troubleshoot/optimize production workflows.

Design, build, and operate scalable data transformation pipelines and dimensional models using dbt, SQL, and AWS. Implement infrastructure-as-code (AWS CDK), CI/CD, and query performance optimizations while ensuring data quality, governance, and collaboration with cross-functional and offshore teams.

Lead Data Engineer builds and maintains scalable data pipelines and lakehouse/warehouse platforms (Databricks) to support analytics, BI, reporting, and AI. Responsibilities include data modeling, ETL/ELT, medallion architecture, orchestration and monitoring (Airflow/Cron), performance tuning, CDC/incremental loads, data quality, and leading/mentoring a team while collaborating with stakeholders and maintaining documentation.

Architect, build, and maintain Snowflake-based ELT pipelines and production data models. Implement observability, data quality, and governance; optimize cost and freshness. Partner with Analytics, Product, and Engineering, use dbt/CI-CD and AI-assisted tooling, and participate in reviews and architecture planning to support analytics, BI, and ML.

Design and implement data federation and lakehouse architectures, build scalable ETL/ELT pipelines with Python and Spark, optimize performance across federated queries, manage Delta/Iceberg/Hudi tables, and enforce governance, security, and access controls for analytics and AI teams.

Design, build, test, and maintain high-performance Python data applications and backend services. Lead technical design, review code, mentor junior engineers, integrate with databases and cloud services, optimize performance, and ensure security, scalability, and reliability.

Design, develop, maintain, and optimize enterprise Tableau dashboards and BI solutions. Integrate and cleanse data from Oracle/Sybase/Big Data, tune SQL, automate Tableau extracts, manage Tableau Server on Linux, support testing, UAT, deployments, and troubleshoot data integrity and performance issues.

Design, build, and maintain scalable batch and streaming data pipelines, improve data modeling and governance, contribute to enterprise data architecture, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure reliable, high-quality data for analytics and operational use.

Design, build, and maintain an internal data platform enabling secure, governed access for engineering and analytics. Partner with architects, implement data pipelines and automations, enforce security and compliance, support platform services, recommend architecture improvements, mentor teams, and drive adoption of scalable, self-service data capabilities.

Own end-to-end client data migrations: reverse-engineer legacy ETL, design and build Airflow DAGs and Spark jobs, validate and reconcile data at scale, document architecture and decisions, and coordinate cross-functional teams through go-live and hypercare.