Top Senior Data Engineer Jobs in Detroit, MI

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, 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.

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.

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.

Build and scale data pipelines supporting Vehicle Configuration Optimization. Ingest and transform Snowflake data into Databricks using Bronze, Silver, and Gold medallion layers. Develop Python and SQL ETL/ELT workflows, monitor pipeline health, optimize performance, and implement data quality and governance controls. Partner with data scientists, analysts, and stakeholders to produce curated datasets for analytics, simulation, and machine learning.

Designs, builds, and optimizes modern Azure and Databricks data platforms for clients. Responsibilities include client discovery, requirements workshops, architecture discussions, batch and streaming ingestion, lakehouse and dimensional modeling, data transformation, governance, monitoring, DevOps, security, and solution reviews. The role also communicates recommendations to technical stakeholders and leadership while delivering scalable analytics and reporting solutions.

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.

Build and maintain secure, scalable data pipelines, ETL/ELT processes, data models, curated datasets, and analytics-ready data products. Ensure data quality, governance, reliability, monitoring, and production support while collaborating with analysts, data scientists, engineers, and business stakeholders. Support marketing, customer analytics, reporting, machine learning preparation, and continuous improvement through testing, documentation, code reviews, and deployment activities.

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.

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.

Design, develop, and maintain scalable data platforms, ETL/ELT pipelines, and tabular/dimensional data models across on-premises and cloud environments. Build and schedule data processing jobs, ensure data quality, performance tuning, and troubleshooting. Lead code reviews, participate in on-call production support, mentor engineers, and drive best practices and technical debt remediation.

Build reusable, analytics-ready telematics data products on Azure Databricks. Design canonical datasets, standardize metrics and business logic, optimize performance and cost, enable self-service analytics, and support AI/ML use cases for enterprise telemetry and connected-vehicle data.

Build, scale, and operate an enterprise telemetry data platform that ingests, processes, and publishes vehicle telemetry at global scale. Develop batch and streaming pipelines using Databricks and Spark, implement observability and data quality controls, optimize distributed workloads for performance and cost, and enable reliable production data products through CI/CD and Infrastructure as Code. Provide technical leadership and partner with analytics, AI, and engineering teams.

Architect, build, and operate low-latency market data systems, including feed handlers, normalization, distribution, and exchange connectivity. Design high-throughput infrastructure for real-time trading data, improve reliability and performance, participate in observability, on-call, and incident response, and deliver well-tested features end to end. Partner with engineering, product, and cross-functional stakeholders while leading a lean, high-impact team.

Build and maintain governed Silver/Gold data models and semantic assets on Databricks. Translate stakeholder KPIs into testable, reusable transformations, apply enterprise modeling standards, enable domain self-service, ensure data sensitivity and governance, and review domain-contributed models for production readiness.

Build Sailor Health’s foundational data platform from scratch. Responsibilities include developing Snowflake and dbt pipelines integrating EHR, CRM, and communications data; creating data-powered web applications; automating clinical and billing workflows with Python; analyzing therapy transcripts and patient data using AI and machine learning; tracking clinical outcomes; and designing scalable data architectures in collaboration with clinicians, engineers, founders, and other teams.

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.

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.

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 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.

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

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.