Top Data Engineer Jobs in Des Moines, IA

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 and maintain ELT/ETL pipelines and cloud data warehouse models, build Power BI reports, apply AI tools to accelerate data workflows, and partner with business stakeholders to deliver reliable analytics and data governance.

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.

Design, develop, test, maintain, and support secure, scalable data solutions using Snowflake and Databricks. Lead technical design, author specifications, review code, mentor engineers, ensure SDLC, audit/security compliance, and drive technical strategy while collaborating with architects and business partners. Participate in Agile ceremonies, be on-call as needed, and travel occasionally.

Design, build, and maintain scalable ETL/ELT pipelines ingesting travel-related data from multiple sources. Integrate and model data in cloud warehouses (Snowflake/BigQuery/Redshift), implement data quality and monitoring, support real-time streaming, and ensure data governance and regulatory compliance. Collaborate with analysts, data scientists, and product teams to deliver reliable datasets for personalization, forecasting, and optimization.

Design, implement, and optimize Snowflake data storage and ETL solutions. Write and tune SQL, integrate data sources and BI tools, ensure data security and compliance, and collaborate with teams to meet business objectives.

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.

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

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.

The Data Engineer will build and maintain scalable data pipelines, improve ETL processes, collaborate with AI/ML teams, and contribute to engineering culture.

Design, build, and maintain end-to-end data pipelines and ETL/ELT for healthcare data using Snowflake, dbt, Python, and SQL. Ensure data quality, monitor production jobs, troubleshoot anomalies, write dbt models and tests, collaborate with Analytics/Operations/Clinical teams, and participate in Agile processes with GitLab and Jira.

Design, build, and maintain ingestion and transformation pipelines for a knowledge-graph analytics platform. Profile and prepare structured and semi-structured source data, ensure data lineage and traceability, implement transformation logic for graph loading, collaborate with data scientists on graph modeling and entity resolution, improve pipeline reliability, and document ingestion patterns using version control and issue tracking.

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

Design, build, and maintain cloud-native data pipelines (Ingest→Transform→Expose) using Airflow, Spark, dbt, and Iceberg. Ingest and normalize HL7/FHIR/OMOP and other structured/unstructured data for analytics and AI, implement schema versioning and governance, ensure interoperability and compliance with DoD Responsible AI and NIST frameworks, and collaborate with DevSecOps and Data Science teams to deliver production-ready datasets.

Design and build a medallion architecture using dbt and Microsoft Fabric, create and maintain data ingestion pipelines, and implement governance, lineage, documentation, and quality checks to support self-serve analytics while collaborating with cross-functional teams.

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.

Lead enterprise data platform strategy and architecture, define data standards and governance, drive Snowflake maturity, oversee legacy data migrations, design ingestion and DataOps patterns, and enable analytics, reporting, AI, and reusable data products across the organization.

Design, build, and maintain scalable ETL/ELT data pipelines and data models integrating USMC logistics systems (GCSSMC, TLS). Ensure data quality, RMF/cybersecurity compliance, support analytics, dashboards, APIs, and collaborate with NIWC Atlantic, stakeholders, and cross-functional teams to improve logistics visibility and readiness.

Own and optimize data infrastructure and ETL/ELT pipelines using SSIS and Microsoft Fabric. Build and maintain SQL Server data warehouse staging, transformations, and lakehouse ingestion. Implement CI/CD, version control with GitHub, monitor pipeline health, troubleshoot data issues, document data flows, and translate stakeholder requirements into data engineering solutions that support BI reporting.

The Data Engineer will design and maintain data pipelines, optimize cloud data warehouses, and collaborate with analytics teams while mentoring junior staff.

Build and maintain production-grade data pipelines and ELT processes using Python, SQL, Airflow, and dbt within AWS. Design optimized schemas in PostgreSQL and Redshift, leverage AI/LLMs to improve development, automation, testing, and data quality, and scale infrastructure for large healthcare datasets.

Build and maintain AWS-based ETL pipelines (Glue/PySpark, MWAA/Airflow, Lambda) to ingest and process terabytes of financial data into an S3 data lake using Iceberg/Parquet. Implement metadata, monitoring, tests (90% coverage), materialized views (Trino/Athena), CloudFormation deployments, documentation, and support agile delivery and operations for federal clients.

Design, develop, and manage data infrastructure for internal and client projects, focusing on large-scale data pipelines, APIs, and cloud deployments.

Serve as the technical owner for customer-facing data workflows and integrations: build pipelines, write SQL and Python scripts, deploy AI-powered workflows, manage APIs and Snowflake ingestion, and translate repeatable solutions into product requirements while supporting customer success and internal engineering.