Top Data Engineer Jobs in Detroit, MI

Design, build, deploy, and operationalize scalable data engineering solutions for customers. Responsibilities include developing pipelines, transforming and cleansing data, analyzing sources, implementing governance, security, and quality practices, testing data movement and transformation code, resolving defects and incidents, and advising customers on technical decisions. The role also supports AI, machine learning, business intelligence, and data product adoption while collaborating across teams and educating end users.

Designs and develops enterprise cloud data solutions, including batch, near-real-time, and API-based pipelines. Builds data models, warehouses, lakes, and lakehouses while implementing governance, quality, lineage, and curation practices. Supports CI/CD, testing, monitoring, observability, security, and compliance. Collaborates with architects, product owners, analysts, and leadership on platform strategy and modernization. Mentors engineers, leads reviews, presents technical topics, and explores AI-enabled data capabilities.

Lead Salesforce data migration and quality activities for a Department of Veterans Affairs modernization program. Analyze SQL Server data, create source-to-target mappings, execute ETL and Salesforce loading, validate and reconcile records, implement data quality controls, and develop migration and application test plans. Track defects, support automated monitoring and testing, collaborate with architects, developers, stakeholders, and provide migration status, risk, and quality updates.

Designs, builds, maintains, and optimizes scalable data pipelines and ETL/ELT workflows using Azure Databricks, SAS, SSIS, SQL, Python, Spark, and Azure services. Integrates internal and external data sources, improves pipeline performance and reliability, troubleshoots processing issues, supports Big Data solutions, and partners with engineering, product management, SRE, analytics, and cross-functional teams to deliver enterprise data platforms.

Build and own the data platform backbone: design ingestion patterns, Snowflake warehouses, governance, and freshness strategy. Implement reliable batch and streaming pipelines, data quality, observability, and onboarding processes. Lead legacy migrations, create data contracts and SLAs, and apply AI-native tooling to automate debugging, documentation, and operational workflows while partnering with Analytics, Engineering, and vendors.

Lead design and ownership of a modern data platform: ingestion, Snowflake governance, pipeline reliability, migrations, data contracts, observability, and AI-enabled tooling. Partner with Analytics, Engineering, and vendors to deliver trustworthy data products and operate production pipelines.

As a Senior Data & Analytics Engineer, you'll lead data initiatives, manage a team, and ensure data quality while turning insights into actionable decisions across the company.

Design and build Snowflake transformation layer and migrate legacy SQL to versioned dbt models. Define conformed dimensions/facts using Kimball principles, set modeling and CI/CD standards, implement data quality/lineage, support BI migration and AI/ML readiness, and mentor future hires. Hands-on work in dbt, SQL, and Python with stakeholder collaboration and governance for financial and operational data.

Design, build, deploy, and maintain configurable, metadata-driven analytics platforms and workflow/decision engines for Risk Adjustment. Partner with analysts to translate processes into auditable, scalable solutions; own full lifecycle, production support, monitoring, and performance optimization while applying AI where beneficial.

The Senior Data Engineer will scale and evolve the data platform, develop ETL/ELT pipelines, establish best practices, and optimize systems for performance while collaborating with various teams.

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.

Lead architecture and scaling of the Databricks data warehouse and self-service data platform. Build reusable batch and streaming frameworks, enforce governance, SLOs, lineage, observability, CI/CD, and multi-tenancy. Mentor engineers, run design reviews, and ship documented patterns to enable analytics, data science, and app teams to move quickly without blocking on platform tickets.

Design, build, and maintain backend systems and data interactions for healthcare reporting. Develop APIs, data models, ETL pipelines, and interfaces; optimize performance, ensure data integrity and security, and support automated testing and CI/CD. Collaborate in Agile teams and reduce technical debt while enabling integrations with frontend and third-party systems.

Design and develop data ingestion pipelines and star-schema models, build calculations using BI native languages (DAX), create dashboards and paginated reports, manage governance/RLS and access, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver actionable visual analytics.

Designs and implements scalable data and technology solutions, develops ETL pipelines and APIs, manages cloud and big-data platforms, maintains data models, supports monitoring and scheduling, participates in Agile development and technical reviews, and mentors junior engineers.

Design, build, and maintain scalable data ingestion, transformation, and processing pipelines across on-prem and cloud platforms. Support dimensional/tabular modeling, data quality, performance tuning, CI/CD deployments, and production incident response. Mentor engineers, lead code reviews, and drive best practices to enable analytical and operational data use cases.

Seeking a Senior BODS Developer to develop and maintain complex BODS processes for data transformation. The role includes improving data quality using Information Steward and GAC/URAC techniques, collaborating with teams, creating documentation, and mentoring others.

Design, build, and maintain scalable data pipelines and tenant-aware APIs to ingest and transform data from varied sources. Work with event-driven and batch architectures, implement authentication and integration patterns, ensure observability/monitoring, optimize data flows for cost and performance, and collaborate with product, infrastructure, and engineering teams to onboard and maintain data sources at scale.

The Senior Data Engineer will design and implement complex data models, collaborate on data governance, lead data initiatives, and mentor team members.

Responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining scalable data pipelines and infrastructure, implementing data governance, and collaborating with teams to meet data needs.

Build and manage data pipelines, ETL workflows, and DAGs using dbt, Apache Airflow, Python, SQL, and Snowflake. Develop custom Airflow operators and hooks, perform data modeling and source-to-target mapping, and implement data quality and cleansing processes. Use cloud platforms, CI/CD, version control, and Snowflake utilities including Snowpipe, Tasks, Streams, stored procedures, and data sharing. Collaborate across teams, communicate insights, solve complex problems, and participate in on-call escalation.

Lead data science and analytics initiatives for healthcare, overseeing model development, data integrity, and large-scale automated analyses. Provide actionable insights, mentor teams, collaborate with cross-functional partners, evaluate payment integrity campaigns, and present findings to stakeholders to optimize revenue, quality, consumer experience, and healthcare costs.

Lead design and scaling of ELT pipelines and analytics schemas on Snowflake. Build Looker views, CI/CD automation, and orchestration workflows (Prefect/Airflow). Ensure production reliability with monitoring (Datadog, Monte Carlo), partner with cross-functional teams, and provide technical leadership including code reviews, testing, and end-to-end ownership of data integrity and platform trustworthiness.

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