Top Senior Data Engineer Jobs in Detroit, MI

Design and build data infrastructure, pipelines, and integration solutions using cloud and big-data tools. Develop data lakes/warehouses, ensure data quality and security, apply data modeling and DAGs, use Databricks, Airflow, and Hadoop, and collaborate with clients to deliver actionable insights.

Senior Data Engineer on PwC's Managed Data, Analytics & Insights team to design, build and manage advanced data ecosystems. Responsibilities include designing data solutions and scalable pipelines, solving complex problems, mentoring junior staff, maintaining high delivery standards, and building client relationships while aligning solutions to business context.

As a Senior Associate in Data Engineering at PwC, you will design and implement data architecture strategies, analyze complex issues, mentor junior members, and build client relationships while ensuring adherence to project standards.

As a Senior Manager in Data Engineering, you will lead teams to design data architectures, develop data solutions, manage client engagements, and ensure compliance with data governance policies.

As a Manager in Managed Services, you'll lead data ecosystems projects, mentor juniors, manage client accounts, and deliver data strategies to optimize operations and drive insights for clients.

Lead data engineering projects, develop and implement data pipelines and architecture strategies, manage data quality, and mentor team members at PwC.

Design, build, and operate large-scale data platforms and Spark/PySpark pipelines. Enable data integration, modeling, quality, and observability. Build MCP servers and AI-augmented tooling, mentor engineers, and lead cross-functional projects to deliver reliable data products.

Own and architect large-scale data pipelines, orchestration, and integrations. Drive IaC strategy (Terraform), third-party API and AI/LLM tool integrations, build export pipelines and internal tooling, mentor engineers, and align cross-team technical strategy for reliable, scalable data infrastructure.

Lead architecture and implementation of scalable batch and streaming ETL/ELT pipelines, data services, and graph-serving models for Observability & Insights. Own technical strategy, drive performance and cost improvements, enforce data governance and observability, lead cross-team initiatives, participate in on-call and incident follow-through, and partner with product and engineering to deliver low-latency graph exploration at extreme scale.

The Data Engineer designs and maintains data pipelines for advanced analytics in supply chain, ensuring data quality and reliability while collaborating with cross-functional teams.

Build and maintain Power BI reporting for FP&A: extract and transform data (Bronze/Silver), semantic modeling and dashboards (Gold), ensure accuracy, security, performance, and manage Power BI Service access and role-level security.

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.

Build and maintain scalable batch and streaming ETL/ELT pipelines, data models, and data warehouse architectures. Implement orchestration, quality, governance, and monitoring. Create self-service dashboards, enable ML/AI-ready datasets and feature pipelines, optimize performance, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver analytics and AI-enabled solutions for customer experience and post-sales operations.

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 Senior Data Engineer will design and implement scalable data models in BigQuery using dbt for analytics and reporting, ensuring data governance and optimal performance.

The Manufacturing Analytics Engineer will manage the analytics pipeline, transforming operational data from OT systems into actionable insights for decision-making, while collaborating with Engineering, IT, and Operations.

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.

Lead design and implementation of a unified event-tracking data platform. Collaborate with Data, Product, and Engineering to build reusable event-publishing frameworks, monitoring/alerting, and deprecate legacy systems. Coach mid-level engineers, influence roadmap and processes, manage cloud/SaaS spend, create documentation, and participate in on-call rotations to ensure platform reliability and data trustworthiness.

Design and build end-to-end geospatial data systems: ingest and process satellite imagery into columnar/chunked stores, expose results via GraphQL/REST and FastAPI, build Next.js/React dashboards, automate with IaC and CI/CD, orchestrate pipelines with Prefect, optimize petabyte-scale I/O, and lead hiring, mentoring, and engineering best practices.

Design, build, and optimize data pipelines for massive datasets. Collaborate with stakeholders, implement CI/CD processes, and ensure data architecture scalability.

Lead architecture and buildout of a new graph-backed enterprise data platform: design ingestion, graph and relational storage, entity resolution pipelines, temporal models, ETL/ELT pipelines, governance, APIs, and production connectors. Ship scalable graph data models, traversal queries, and platform roadmap while enabling observability, security, and containerized deployments.

Lead design and delivery of enterprise BI and data engineering solutions using medallion architecture and domain-driven design. Build ETL/ELT pipelines, advanced data models (star/snowflake), and Power BI dashboards. Implement DAX and Power Query M transformations, optimize SQL solutions, and use Spark Python for large-scale processing. Collaborate with stakeholders, define KPIs, mentor team members, and drive innovation across the Microsoft Cloud Data Stack.

Lead data engineering efforts within Technology Consulting: design data architecture and pipelines, implement AWS/Redshift and ETL solutions, support BI (QlikView/Oracle BI), coach teams, manage client relationships and SLAs, apply systems thinking to optimize outcomes and validate solutions with stakeholders.

As the founding engineer of the Data Intelligence team, you will design semantic layers, develop AI tooling, and automate data processes to drive business insights.