Top Senior Data Engineer Jobs in Houston, TX

Leads development of secure, scalable data platforms for KYC and risk assessment. Designs and delivers enterprise data applications, frameworks, APIs, and processing systems; mentors engineers; drives AI-assisted development practices; and ensures secure, reliable, and compliant engineering workflows. The role uses cloud-native technologies, large-scale data processing, databases, observability, orchestration, modern data platforms, and emerging LLM infrastructure while communicating with senior leaders.

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 architecture and engineering for secure, scalable data platforms, pipelines, backup, recovery, immutable-data protection, and recovery assurance. Define data models, build AWS cloud-native automation, embed SRE and observability practices, implement security controls, and deliver operational analytics. Lead technical standards, code reviews, mentoring, stakeholder alignment, incident response, and cross-team delivery while ensuring measurable reliability, compliance, and RPO/RTO outcomes across relational and NoSQL systems.

Design and refine data models and schemas; manage metadata, taxonomies, glossaries, and data lineage; develop data quality rules and remediation plans; support integration analysis and source-to-target designs; prepare data for analytics and AI; and produce architecture, governance, integration, and analytics documentation. The role also supports CRM and workflow systems, cross-functional governance, dashboards, metrics, and enterprise data interoperability for NASA’s external engagement platform.

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.

Design and implement data infrastructure, custom extractors, ETL pipelines, data models, and visualization prototypes for industrial clients. Collaborate with solution architects, subject matter experts, product teams, and stakeholders to deliver reliable data solutions using Python, Spark, SQL, Kafka, REST APIs, and Docker. The role requires experience in oil and gas or manufacturing, client-facing communication, and onsite travel from a hybrid Houston location.

Build and own scalable data platforms and ingestion pipelines using BigQuery, dbt, and modern ingestion tools. Design batch and CDC workflows, improve reliability and observability, implement governance and access controls, and support analytics and AI agents. Develop Python services and internal tooling, contribute to architecture and lakehouse experiments, collaborate with stakeholders, and mentor engineers. The role requires strong SQL, Python, cloud infrastructure, testing, CI/CD, and AI-assisted development experience.

Leads the design, development, and optimization of scalable data pipelines and analytics platforms. Builds ETL/ELT workflows using Databricks and Spark, integrates and transforms source data into curated models, manages SQL Server data, and maintains documentation and lineage. Collaborates with product, analytics, and engineering teams to deliver reliable data solutions. Applies responsible AI practices and delivers projects independently within established timelines.

Build and maintain secure data pipelines and integrations across business platforms, laboratory systems, analytical instruments, and messy data sources. Own schema design, orchestration, monitoring, quality controls, documentation, and compliant data isolation for export-controlled information. Create a unified lakehouse foundation supporting analytics, dashboards, machine learning, R&D, manufacturing, and operations. Partner with scientists and technical teams to integrate HPLC, GC, Invert Bio, APIs, spreadsheets, PDFs, and semi-structured records.

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.

Own Eve’s data platform end to end, including ingestion, orchestration, incremental dbt models, Snowflake administration, Terraform infrastructure, observability, access controls, and pipeline reliability. Build schema-change detection, freshness SLAs, CI environments, and incident processes while managing performance and compute costs. Partner with analytics engineers and stakeholders to maintain trusted data for reporting and AI systems, using AI-assisted development and documenting platform standards.

Own and evolve WorkOS’s internal data platform, including ingestion, orchestration, Snowflake, dbt models, data governance, reverse ETL, semantic views, and AI-enabled data workflows. Ensure pipeline reliability, freshness, security, and scalability while partnering with Product, Finance, RevOps, GTM, Engineering, and Security. Build monitoring, runbooks, CI/CD gates, access controls, masking policies, and infrastructure automation across AWS and Kubernetes.

Design, build, and operate scalable batch and streaming data pipelines, lakehouse and warehouse models, and data services. Own datasets end to end, improve Snowflake, Iceberg, Spark, and Flink performance and reliability, implement governance and observability, and support graph-serving data models. Partner with product and engineering teams, participate in on-call, review code and designs, and mentor junior engineers.

Design, build, deploy, and maintain AWS-based data and AI/ML infrastructure for enterprise agentic AI platforms. Develop data lake pipelines, observability systems, agent-enablement tooling, and production MLOps/LLMOps capabilities. Own features end-to-end, contribute to architecture and design decisions, optimize reliability, scalability, security, and cost, and collaborate with AWS Professional Services, client teams, and junior engineers.

Build and operate production pipelines for legal records from PACER, court systems, opinions, PDFs, scans, XML, and HTML. Develop LLM-assisted extraction workflows, validate data quality, optimize SQL, and support RAG and semantic search products. Manage AWS S3 and RDS systems within security guardrails while collaborating with engineering teams. The role requires strong Python and SQL skills, legal data experience, document extraction expertise, and autonomous problem-solving with large, messy datasets.

Build, maintain, and optimize ETL/ELT pipelines, data integrations, REST API connections, and SnapLogic workflows. Manage PostgreSQL queries, database objects, data quality, warehouse updates, automation, monitoring, troubleshooting, and performance optimization. Collaborate with stakeholders and vendors on reporting, regulatory FCC requirements, documentation, database upgrades, and analytics capabilities.

Build and own Snout’s data foundation, including PostgreSQL and dbt warehouses, ingestion pipelines, dimensional models, data quality, documentation, and reliable rebuilds. Reconcile data from veterinary practice-management systems, support LLM/AI tooling, translate stakeholder needs into technical plans, and establish the foundation for a future data team and analyst.

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 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.

Build and support production data pipelines, Databricks workflows, dimensional models, semantic models, and enterprise integrations using Azure, SQL, Python, and PySpark. Own solutions from requirements through deployment, monitoring, and support. Investigate data discrepancies, improve data quality, modernize legacy systems, and assess downstream impacts on Power BI and business metrics. Partner with stakeholders across healthcare and business functions, mentor technical teammates, and establish engineering standards for testing, CI/CD, documentation, and governance.

Lead the architecture and development of scalable AWS-based data ingestion, transformation, and orchestration pipelines. Build reliable data infrastructure using Python, SQL, Airflow, Lambda, ECS, SQS, and Terraform. Establish data modeling, quality, lineage, monitoring, testing, and observability practices while partnering with analysts, scientists, and backend engineers. Mentor senior engineers, guide technical decisions, and provide hands-on leadership for complex data platform initiatives.

Lead the architecture and development of Vercel’s next-generation data platform, supporting batch and real-time integrations, analytics, data warehousing, and AI/ML workloads. Design scalable systems using Kafka, ClickHouse, Tinybird, and Snowflake; establish data governance and security standards; guide architectural decisions and roadmaps; collaborate with engineering, product, security, compliance, and leadership teams; write production code; and mentor engineers.

Build and maintain Databricks-based data platforms, including ingestion, transformation, storage, governance, data modeling, and serving pipelines. Establish medallion architecture standards, canonical data models, quality controls, lineage, schema evolution, and reliable batch or incremental processing. Improve pipeline observability, scalability, idempotency, and recoverability while moving curated data to systems such as ClickHouse. Collaborate across application and analytics teams to create durable, governed production datasets.

Build and own scalable data architecture, canonical data models, configurable source integrations, and reliable pipelines for AI-driven financial intelligence. Use SQL, Python, dbt, cloud data warehouses, and orchestration tools to deliver idempotent, auditable data workflows. Establish lineage, data contracts, quality controls, and schema evolution practices. Lead architecture reviews, mentor distributed data engineers, and support customer-hosted multi-cloud deployments with strict tenant isolation and traceability.

Build and maintain dbt and semantic data models in Snowflake, develop ingestion and transformation pipelines, define trusted product metrics, and improve data collection. Partner with Product and Engineering to support experimentation and feature analysis. Establish data quality testing, documentation, HIPAA-aware access controls, and compliance practices. Use and validate AI-generated code and Snowflake Cortex outputs while raising technical standards across the team.