Top Senior Data Engineer Jobs in Greensboro, NC

Lead performance investigations across the data product stack to diagnose and fix slow queries and UX issues. Design data architecture changes, build benchmarks, measure latency/throughput/cost (ClickHouse Cloud), prototype solutions, instrument monitoring, and partner with product and engineering to balance responsiveness, scalability, and cost.

Extract, transform, and load data from clients' legacy databases into CentralSquare systems. Write and tune SQL/ETL processes, present and validate converted data with clients, assist testing and go-live conversions, document processes, estimate project scope, and seek guidance from leadership when needed.

Designs and implements big-data data management solutions (Cloudera/Hortonworks/Databricks). Builds and automates reporting and analytics using SQL and Databricks, optimizes queries, manages ETL, integrates multiple data sources, enforces data governance, and supports payment integrity reporting requirements.

Design, build, and migrate large-scale batch data pipelines into Databricks. Develop and optimize production-grade Python/Spark/SQL solutions, support parallel legacy and cloud systems during migration, lead technical design discussions, use AI tools to improve workflows, ensure pipeline reliability through testing/monitoring/tuning, and participate in a rotating on-call schedule.

Own design and implementation of a greenfield analytical data platform: ingesting PostgreSQL and Kafka streams, establishing governance, data lineage, quality, monitoring, and compliance-ready pipelines. Evaluate AWS-native tooling, Snowflake, and Databricks; produce RFCs and documentation; mentor junior engineers and ensure analytical systems remain downstream of transactional sources.

Lead design and scaling of backend data infrastructure for Beacon's Datastore: build event-driven pipelines, data models, and APIs; draft RFCs; integrate services; improve operational robustness, documentation, and tooling to support clinical and scientific workflows.

The Senior Data Engineer will design and implement data processing pipelines using Java and Spark, optimize performance, and mentor junior engineers while ensuring compliance with data governance standards.

Founding data engineer to design and build Payabli's data platform: architect lakehouse/warehouse, build batch and streaming pipelines, model canonical datasets, ensure data quality/observability, enforce access/masking/lineage for regulated financial data, and enable analytics/ML feature pipelines while establishing team standards and CI/CD.

Build and maintain scalable ETL/data pipelines and internal frameworks to support ML and product teams. Drive architecture, observability, data quality, and engineering best practices across AI/ML workflows and prompt-engineering pipelines.

Lead design, build, and operate scalable Databricks/Delta Lake data pipelines and Kimball dimensional models using dbt. Manage governance with Unity Catalog, optimize performance and cost, operationalize ML with MLflow, and coordinate/quality-check offshore vendor engineering. Mentor engineers, uphold standards, and deliver trusted data products that power analytics, reporting, and MLOps workflows.

Design, build, and maintain dbt data models and scalable ELT pipelines; optimize performance-aware SQL on Snowflake; ensure observability, testing, and CI/CD; partner with product and engineering teams to meet analytic needs, mentor engineers, document business logic, and troubleshoot ingestion, transformation, and warehouse issues.

Design, build, and maintain scalable data pipelines, data models, ETL/ELT, and BI solutions. Collaborate with data scientists and stakeholders to improve data quality, accessibility, and PHI security. Develop and document workflows, optimize processing/storage, support data warehouse and visualization, and adopt AI tools to drive data-informed outcomes.

Design, build, and optimize scalable cloud data pipelines and infrastructure. Maintain and refactor SQL and ETL processes, automate data workflows, ensure data quality/security, and troubleshoot complex issues. Provide technical leadership and mentor junior engineers while collaborating with stakeholders to translate requirements.

Design, build, and operate scalable data transformation pipelines and dimensional models using dbt, SQL, and AWS. Implement infrastructure-as-code (AWS CDK), CI/CD, and query performance optimizations while ensuring data quality, governance, and collaboration with cross-functional and offshore teams.

Lead Data Engineer builds and maintains scalable data pipelines and lakehouse/warehouse platforms (Databricks) to support analytics, BI, reporting, and AI. Responsibilities include data modeling, ETL/ELT, medallion architecture, orchestration and monitoring (Airflow/Cron), performance tuning, CDC/incremental loads, data quality, and leading/mentoring a team while collaborating with stakeholders and maintaining documentation.

Own and build scalable ELT pipelines and event-driven ingestion in AWS, using Dagster for orchestration. Implement IaC (Terraform), data quality, lineage, monitoring, and troubleshoot cross-system issues while partnering with analytics and product teams to ensure downstream analytical correctness.

Design, build, and maintain scalable ETL/ELT pipelines into Snowflake, enforce data quality, optimize data models and query performance for Power BI reporting, produce documentation, and troubleshoot data issues while collaborating with stakeholders.

Design, implement, and maintain PySpark-based data reconciliation solutions for financial systems. Build matching algorithms, integrate with rules engines, process large distributed datasets, identify and resolve discrepancies, and collaborate with analysts and architects to improve data quality and governance.

Design, build, and optimize PySpark applications and ETL pipelines to process large-scale datasets from SQL/NoSQL sources, data lakes, and streaming platforms. Ensure data quality, error handling, performance tuning, and collaborate with analysts, scientists, and architects to deliver scalable data solutions.

Design, implement, and maintain PySpark applications to automate large-scale financial data reconciliations. Build transformation and matching algorithms, integrate with rules engines, analyze data gaps, and collaborate with analysts and architects to ensure data quality and system resilience.

Design, develop, test, and deploy high-performance Spark/Scala data processing applications and ETL pipelines using the Cloudera Hadoop ecosystem. Optimize Spark and platform performance, ensure data integrity and security, collaborate with data scientists and analysts, troubleshoot issues, and implement version control and CI/CD for Spark applications.

Design and develop Big Data applications using Java, Spark, and MapReduce on Cloudera/Hadoop ecosystems. Work with Hive, Impala, YARN, Kafka, and large datasets; write tests (JUnit), perform data analysis, and script in Unix/Python. Lead and manage global technology teams and follow industry best practices.

Design and implement data federation and lakehouse architectures, build scalable ETL/ELT pipelines with Python and Spark, optimize performance across federated queries, manage Delta/Iceberg/Hudi tables, and enforce governance, security, and access controls for analytics and AI teams.

Design and implement big data solutions (Spark, Hive, Java, CDP). Analyze and consolidate disparate data sources, produce functional specifications, review data models, gather stakeholder requirements, validate implementations, support production deployments, investigate data quality and data lineage, and collaborate with technology leads to ensure data completeness and accuracy.

Design, build, test, and maintain high-performance Python data applications and backend services. Lead technical design, review code, mentor junior engineers, integrate with databases and cloud services, optimize performance, and ensure security, scalability, and reliability.