Top Data Engineer Jobs in Houston, TX

Lead enterprise-scale Akeneo PIM implementations, including solution architecture, platform configuration, data architecture, API development, and third-party integrations. Collaborate with developers, architects, clients, and stakeholders to deliver digital transformation projects. Ensure data privacy, security, and lifecycle protection while documenting technical solutions, gathering requirements, managing expectations, and mentoring junior team members.

Architects, deploys, and operates scalable data platform infrastructure supporting analytics. Responsibilities include administering Airflow and Superset, managing Terraform infrastructure, building CI/CD pipelines, enforcing security and compliance, developing DBT data models, cataloging assets in OpenMetadata, writing Python automation, and mentoring engineers. The role requires extensive infrastructure and data engineering experience across cloud platforms, containers, data security, and workflow orchestration.

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 operate production data pipelines and dimensional models using Spark, SparkSQL, and cloud lakehouse technologies. Own pipelines from requirements through deployment, monitoring, and iteration; improve data quality, lineage, reliability, and cost efficiency. Partner with data scientists, analysts, product managers, and engineers to support datamarts, KPIs, reporting, and analysis. Participate in business-hours on-call rotations and improve runbooks and alerting.

Administer and enhance Edmunds’ Databricks data platform and AWS infrastructure. Build and maintain ETL pipelines, infrastructure-as-code tooling using Terraform or CDK, and operational dashboards, alerts, and reports. Collaborate with business, engineering, analytics, security, and infrastructure teams to support data platform users and AI solutions. Evaluate new technologies, troubleshoot platform issues, and improve operational, cost, and security visibility.

Design, implement, and optimize large-scale data processing on Databricks and Spark. Build ETL pipelines, integrate data across AWS services (Redshift, RDS), orchestrate workflows with Airflow, and ensure data warehousing and engineering best practices. Lead and mentor development teams and collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders to drive data strategy and execution.

Designs, develops, and maintains enterprise Oracle databases and data processes. Responsibilities include database performance and capacity monitoring, SQL and PL/SQL optimization, schema development, replication, disaster recovery, security controls, performance testing, and migrating on-premises databases to cloud data platforms.

Define and govern enterprise-scale data architecture across batch, streaming, warehouse, lakehouse, transactional, and AI use cases. Establish standards for data quality, lineage, access, cataloging, governance, observability, and SLAs. Architect AI-enabled workflows, resolve complex architecture issues, influence roadmaps, and mentor engineers through hands-on technical leadership. The role requires 15+ years of software, data engineering, or architecture experience and expertise in large-scale data platforms and modeling.

Leads enterprise data engineering strategy and architecture, designing scalable cloud data platforms, pipelines, models, governance, and AI-assisted engineering solutions. Establishes technical standards, security, observability, and reusable frameworks; influences architecture decisions across teams without direct management. Mentors senior engineers, partners with business and technical stakeholders, and remains hands-on with cloud technologies, software architecture, data modeling, and platform design.

Design, develop, and operate large-scale data ingestion, transformation, enrichment, and processing pipelines across cloud, hybrid, and on-premises environments. Build distributed services using Java, Python, and Kafka; optimize data models and platform performance; deploy applications on Kubernetes; support infrastructure automation and CI/CD; troubleshoot production systems; and collaborate with customers and solution architects on implementations.

Designs, builds, and operates scalable batch and streaming data pipelines on Databricks for federal missions. Responsibilities include developing Spark and Delta Lake solutions, managing clusters and workflows, implementing Unity Catalog governance and security, optimizing ETL/ELT processes, integrating CI/CD, supporting machine learning and advanced analytics, monitoring data quality, and collaborating with technical teams and stakeholders.

Support design, development, and maintenance of data pipelines and infrastructure. Assist with ETL/ELT workflows, data ingestion, cleaning, validation, modeling, and warehousing. Document processes and collaborate with data teams to support analytics use cases.

Designs and develops cloud data architectures, ingestion frameworks, data models, and analytical platforms. Advises clients on cloud migration, data warehousing, technical approaches, and implementation roadmaps. Collaborates with stakeholders through requirements gathering, workshops, whiteboarding, and project meetings while deploying end-to-end cloud analytics solutions. Requires experience with cloud platforms, big data technologies, BI tools, data warehousing methodologies, programming, SQL, version control, and Agile/DevOps practices.

Designs and maintains data warehouse infrastructure, semantic and dimensional models, metrics layers, dashboards, reporting, and secure data pipelines. Builds governed self-service analytics in Sigma, Power BI, and Databricks; defines KPIs and data standards; implements row-level security and Entra ID controls; supports data quality, observability, AI/ML use cases, and BI adoption. Collaborates with technical and business stakeholders in an Agile-Scrum environment.

Build and maintain production data ingestion pipelines, transformation models, warehouses, and schemas for PerfectServe’s data platform. Deploy reliable, tested pipelines using idempotency and data-quality checks, apply dimensional and medallion modeling, participate in design reviews, and document owned pipelines and runbooks. The role requires SQL, programming experience, dbt or similar transformation tools, cloud data warehouse experience, ELT orchestration, AWS knowledge, and a strong data-testing mindset.

Designs, builds, and maintains enterprise data pipelines, ETL processes, integrations, data infrastructure, and complex data models. The role supports analytics partners, develops scalable data warehouse solutions, tunes SQL and databases, troubleshoots production issues, and collaborates with architects, analysts, developers, and stakeholders. Responsibilities include end-to-end project delivery, data modeling, big data engineering, production support, agile planning, and mentoring team members.

Own end-to-end data workflows, including ingestion, storage, orchestration, transformation, validation, and delivery. Build ETL/ELT pipelines, manage cloud data platforms and transfers, optimize data models and queries, maintain data quality monitoring, troubleshoot production issues, and document data flows. Collaborate with technical and nontechnical teams to investigate discrepancies, support enterprise datasets, and apply secure data-handling practices.

Designs and maintains SAP BW data models, pipelines, ETL processes, and analytics integrations. Leads migration of SAP BW 7.x assets to SAP Business Data Cloud using SAP Datasphere and SAP Analytics Cloud, converts legacy objects into CDS-based semantic models, optimizes data flows, supports reporting migration, and ensures data quality, governance, lineage, and operational reliability across SAP and non-SAP environments.

Build and maintain production ETL/ELT pipelines, data models, and curated datasets for analytics and AI applications. Ingest data from databases, APIs, SaaS tools, and event streams; implement quality checks, monitoring, documentation, governance, and access controls. Collaborate with analysts, data scientists, and ML engineers on reporting, feature datasets, AI search, and RAG applications. Optimize query performance and pipeline costs while using Git, code reviews, and CI/CD for safe releases.

Build and operate event-driven data pipelines processing healthcare claims data for fraud, waste, and abuse detection. Operationalize validated fraud signals, maintain alert delivery and partner dashboards, monitor pipeline reliability, and collaborate with data architects, scientists, and investigative teams. The role requires production-scale pipeline engineering using AWS, Snowflake, Python, and SQL in a fully remote environment.

Own and evolve UJET’s data platform, including MySQL CDC replication to BigQuery, dbt transformations, Terraform infrastructure, pipelines, data quality, observability, and Looker models. Build reliable, analytics-ready datasets and trusted metrics for internal and customer-facing reporting. Partner with Analytics, Finance, Product, and Engineering to deliver scalable data solutions, improve platform reliability, optimize performance and costs, and establish development standards and guardrails.

Build and maintain production data pipelines and foundational datasets for Market Intelligence. Automate survey ingestion, cleaning, joining, scheduling, monitoring, and reporting-layer integration. Develop repeatable queries, improve data quality practices, document assumptions, support reproducible outputs, and translate research needs into technical solutions. The role requires close collaboration with technical and nontechnical stakeholders and ownership of reliable data infrastructure.

Build and operate platform infrastructure for product analytics, data processing, and ML systems. Responsibilities include event tracking pipelines, Databricks Bronze-to-Gold lakehouse layers, schema evolution, data contracts, CI validation, backfills, monitoring, feature computation, model pipelines, lineage, PHI policy enforcement, and self-service developer tooling. The role focuses on making data and ML changes safe, observable, reproducible, and accessible to engineers and subject-matter experts.

Design, build, and scale data pipelines, ETL workflows, analytics infrastructure, and machine-learning data systems. Ensure data quality, security, monitoring, and reliability while optimizing storage and processing performance. Collaborate with engineering, product, and analytics teams on data requirements, modeling, schemas, and scalable infrastructure. The role also establishes data engineering best practices and supports a data-driven culture.

Design, build, and maintain scalable data pipelines, data lakes, and databases; ingest and map customer financial datasets; monitor pipeline reliability; translate business requirements into data flows and analytical insights to ensure high-quality, usable data.