Top Senior Data Engineer Jobs in Houston, TX

Own end-to-end data engineering for a business domain, including API and other-source ingestion, dbt models, orchestration, data-quality testing, monitoring, documentation, and performance. Build reliable, AI-ready single sources of truth and ensure data freshness, accuracy, traceability, and scalability. Collaborate with stakeholders and the Director of Data, establish engineering patterns, review work, and mentor other engineers.

Designs and leads scalable real-time and batch data pipelines, data platforms, architectures, data products, and intelligent APIs. Ensures data quality, supports BI and AI/ML initiatives, and develops ingestion, processing, migration, and analytical solutions for big data, NoSQL, and data warehouse environments. Provides technical leadership, mentorship, code reviews, testing, CI/CD implementation, system monitoring, troubleshooting, and cross-functional translation of business requirements into reliable cloud-based solutions.

The Senior Data Engineer will design and implement lakehouse architectures, optimize ClickHouse deployments, develop ETL/ELT pipelines, and create data models to support analytical and operational functions.

Design, build, and own business-critical data infrastructure, including AWS Glue and Spark pipelines, cloud warehouse or lakehouse systems, orchestration, and Tableau BI platforms. Define event-driven contracts, data models, schemas, observability, and batch or streaming architectures across multi-tenant, multi-region environments. Collaborate across producer and consumer teams while owning production data infrastructure and outcomes end to end.

Design and support ETL, data migration, transformation, import, export, and validation workflows for moving legacy EHR data into athenahealth systems. Build Python and SQL utilities, define source-to-target mappings, support HL7 and FHIR interoperability, validate EHI exports, investigate data quality issues, document processes, and collaborate with product, implementation, operations, sales, and engineering teams in a remote environment.

Design, build, and operate scalable PostgreSQL databases and cloud-native data infrastructure. Build and maintain ETL/ELT pipelines, optimize query and server performance, ensure high availability and disaster recovery, improve observability, troubleshoot production issues, guide schema and application design, evaluate database technologies, and mentor junior engineers to support reliable, secure data-driven applications.

Own the go-to-market data infrastructure, integrating HubSpot, Dreamdata, advertising platforms, PostHog, and website data into BigQuery. Diagnose tracking and attribution discrepancies, configure multi-touch revenue attribution, and build executive dashboards covering channel performance and revenue. Develop ABM workflows using Clay, enrichment, behavioral signals, and AI personalization. Partner with sales and marketing to improve funnel visibility, campaign decisions, and outbound effectiveness.

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.

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, 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.

Lead design and implementation of Jane's customer data infrastructure: own event collection, pipelines, CDP tooling, schema governance, identity resolution, and attribution. Work cross-functionally with marketing, BI, product, and engineering to set standards, evaluate tooling (e.g., RudderStack), ensure privacy-compliant instrumentation, and build reliable, consistent data delivery to the warehouse.

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

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.

Leads data engineering strategy, architecture, delivery, support, and lifecycle management for secure, scalable cloud and hosted data solutions. Collaborates with technical and business stakeholders to deliver complex datasets, establish enterprise data standards, manage data engineering teams, and oversee maintenance, change management, capacity planning, business continuity, disaster recovery, and regulatory security requirements. The role also evaluates third-party tools and supports Azure DevOps, SDLC, CI/CD, and technical innovation.

The Senior Data Engineer will develop data engineering solutions, manage ETL workflows, and establish a new data practice while collaborating with stakeholders.

Lead Data Engineer responsible for defining architecture, engineering standards, and best practices for the enterprise data platform, collaborating with distributed teams for modernization and scalability.

Designs and delivers a global analytics platform supporting reporting, visualizations, self-service analytics, and embedded data products. Responsibilities include data collection and processing, semantic modeling, warehouse and pipeline development, query optimization, governance, analytics enablement, and stakeholder collaboration. The role provides actionable insights from complex travel data and builds integrated analytics applications using cloud platforms and business intelligence tools.

Design and scale Zip’s enterprise data and AI platform across batch, streaming, structured, and unstructured workloads. Build reliable pipelines, AI-ready data products, semantic models, vector and hybrid search, and RAG capabilities. Establish standards for modeling, testing, governance, security, observability, and automation. Partner with engineering, data science, product, and business teams while mentoring engineers and influencing platform architecture.

Design, implement, and maintain enterprise database solutions and Big Data (Hadoop) systems. Lead database architecture, HA/DR, migrations, patching, performance tuning, security, capacity planning, monitoring, and incident recovery. Provide technical leadership, SOP documentation, and support BI/data mining activities. Role requires shift work.

Leads data and analytics engineering for Zero Trust maturity assessment and implementation measurement. Designs common data models, integrates and validates enterprise data, develops maturity and risk metrics, supports prioritization and gap analysis, and establishes data quality, lineage, traceability, and documentation practices. Partners with dashboard and automation specialists to streamline reporting and data refresh workflows.

Designs and operates scalable serverless AWS data pipelines, data models, ETL/ELT workflows, feature stores, and analytics-ready data assets. Partners with AI, Analytics, Product, and Underwriting teams to support reproducible ML training and scoring, MLOps, data quality, monitoring, governance, and production troubleshooting. The role handles sensitive healthcare and financial data, optimizes serverless workloads, supports batch and near-real-time processing, and applies infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD, documentation, and responsible data-use practices.

The Senior Data Engineer designs and maintains data pipelines and architectures to support enterprise analytics, ensuring data quality and integration across systems.

Lead design and delivery of scalable production data pipelines and data products (Spark/Python/SQL) on Databricks; integrate diverse federal health systems, define reusable ingestion patterns, ensure data quality/governance, mentor engineers, and troubleshoot/optimize production workflows.

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 a team of data engineers to design, build, and maintain scalable data pipelines, a Data Vault, data warehouses and marts. Own backlog, sprint planning, mentoring, stakeholder collaboration, data validation/monitoring, and platform improvements to deliver key metrics and data infrastructure across the business.