Top Senior Data Engineer Jobs in Detroit, MI

Design, implement, and manage advanced data ecosystems and scalable ETL/ELT pipelines. Analyze complex problems, deliver data warehousing and governance solutions, mentor junior staff, and build client relationships while maintaining high standards and business-context awareness.

Lead design and implementation of enterprise data architecture and cloud-based data solutions. Manage large data engineering projects, develop data models and pipelines, ensure governance and security compliance, advise clients strategically, and build high-performing inclusive teams.

Lead design and implementation of data architecture, ETL/ELT pipelines, data models, warehouses and lakes. Ensure data governance, security, cloud deployments, performance and cost optimization. Coach and manage team members, partner with stakeholders, and drive data-driven solutions for clients.

Design and implement data architecture and scalable ETL/ELT pipelines on cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP). Analyze complex problems, mentor junior staff, ensure data governance/security compliance, liaise with stakeholders, and deliver high-quality client solutions while developing technical and client-facing skills.

Design and build data infrastructure and pipelines using cloud and big-data tools. Develop data lakes/warehouses, ensure data quality and security, collaborate with clients, and apply data architecture, transformation, and analytics to deliver insights.

Build and improve end-to-end simulation data workflows and automation for vehicle dynamics: generate, store, process, validate, and analyze simulation datasets; implement CI/CD pipelines, Databricks/SQL-based data management, and automation; partner with simulation engineers to standardize metadata, drive reuse, and train teams toward data-driven simulation practices.

Lead development and delivery of data engineering solutions for clients: design data architectures, build and maintain ETL pipelines, apply advanced analytics, implement BI visualizations, coach teams, manage managed-services SLAs, and engage stakeholders to validate and refine outcomes.

Lead data engineering engagements delivering ETL/ELT solutions, pipelines, and cloud analytics. Build and maintain architectures (DataStage, AWS/Redshift, DB2/SQL Server, GoldenGate/CDC, S3/Glue), oversee BI and visualization, manage client accounts and teams, mentor junior staff, ensure project delivery and quality, and drive process and technology adoption.

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 scalable end-to-end data ingestion and curation pipelines on GCP. Ensure data quality, governance, security, and cost optimization. Use Python, SQL, dbt/Dataform, Astronomer, and Terraform to automate workflows and infrastructure. Collaborate with architects and stakeholders, document processes, and translate business requirements into production-ready data assets for analytics and AI consumption.

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.

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.

Build and maintain Databricks data pipelines ingesting Snowflake and data lake sources, implement medallion architecture transformations, ensure pipeline health and monitoring, create curated datasets for analytics and ML, and partner with data scientists and stakeholders.

As a Senior Data Engineer at Jellyfish, you'll build and maintain data pipelines, optimize orchestration, automate CI/CD processes, and enhance data integration while ensuring high performance and reliability.

Lead design and operation of large-scale data pipelines and data APIs. Build Spark/PySpark workflows on Databricks, optimize job performance, manage data quality and observability, and develop MCP servers and AI-agent integrations. Mentor engineers, define standards, support production incidents and on-call rotations, and collaborate with stakeholders to deliver scalable data platform products.

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.

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

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 architecture and reliability of the data platform, build and harden ingestion (batch and CDC), own BigQuery+dbt transformations, establish testing/observability/governance, mentor engineers, develop Python tooling and APIs, run POCs for lakehouse/open table formats, and define AI-assisted development practices.

Design, build, and maintain ETL/ELT pipelines and analytics data models from structured and event-level data. Transform clickstream/telemetry into user-level journeys, implement dbt transformations in a cloud warehouse (Redshift/Snowflake/BigQuery), develop reverse ETL workflows, enforce CI/CD/version control and automated data quality tests, and partner with BI, marketing, and product to deliver dashboards and attribution reporting.

Design, build, and maintain cloud-native ETL/data pipelines using Databricks and AWS Glue. Ingest and transform structured and semi-structured data with PySpark, Python, and SQL. Integrate sources including MongoDB, implement data quality checks, optimize pipeline performance, and support production deployments, monitoring, and troubleshooting while collaborating with architects and analysts.

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.

Design, build, and maintain scalable Spark-based ETL pipelines and computed tables in a central data lake. Integrate structured and unstructured IoT, sensor, and external data for analytics, model training, and dashboards. Collaborate with Data Science, Analytics, and ML teams to ensure reliable, high-quality customer-facing datasets.

The role involves architecting and improving data systems, defining governance standards, optimizing performance, and mentoring engineers in data engineering.