Top Data Engineer Jobs in Houston, TX

Design, build, and optimize Snowflake-based data warehouses and dbt transformation pipelines. Develop scalable ETL/ELT ingestion, tune SQL and warehouse performance, implement data quality/testing (dbt tests), and maintain CI/CD and version-controlled data workflows while collaborating with analysts, data scientists, and stakeholders.

Lead design, build, and operate real-time, Flink-based streaming data platforms. Develop low-latency, stateful pipelines, enforce event schemas/contracts, ensure fault tolerance and observability, mentor engineers, and partner with architecture and compliance teams to deliver resilient streaming solutions for banking use cases.

The Principal Data Engineer will lead data architecture initiatives, design scalable data systems, and oversee data standards across teams while ensuring high-quality data infrastructure and guiding engineering teams.

Design, build, and maintain an internal data platform and pipelines. Ensure secure, governed, resilient data access for engineering and BI teams. Partner with architects, implement automations, support platform consumption, mentor users, and drive continuous improvement and compliance.

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.

Build and maintain scalable, governed data pipelines from ingestion through transformation and integration. Implement schema validation, data quality checks, job monitoring, and production-grade APIs. Work with Python, SQL, Airflow, dbt, AWS (EMR, Athena, S3), Iceberg/Parquet, and contribute to CI/CD, observability, and on-call support while collaborating with analytics and product teams.

Lead design and operation of large-scale data pipelines and data APIs. Build Spark/PySpark workflows on Databricks, optimize job performance, manage data quality and observability, and develop MCP servers and AI-agent integrations. Mentor engineers, define standards, support production incidents and on-call rotations, and collaborate with stakeholders to deliver scalable data platform products.

Own product telemetry, maintain dbt models in Snowflake, support self-service reporting and NLP queries, drive product insights from user and retention data, and monitor Airbyte syncs to ensure data quality.

Build and operate ingestion and transformation pipelines to turn messy insurance data into clean datasets. Design bronze/silver/fact layers, model and tune Postgres and analytical stores, define KPIs and reconciliation checks, orchestrate observable data jobs, and ensure end-to-end data quality for analytics and AI products.

Build and maintain data marts, materialized views, and ETL/ELT pipelines in an AWS-hosted data lake. Design and optimize data workflows, monitor infrastructure health and data quality, support PostgreSQL migrations, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and ensure compliance with federal data security (FISMA/NIST 800-53).

Lead architecture, systems, and roadmap for Coinbase's Compliance Reporting Data Platform. Design and build production-grade data models, pipelines, quality frameworks, validations, and certification processes. Establish data contracts, monitoring, reconciliation, and audit-ready processes. Partner with engineering and compliance stakeholders, respond to regulatory exams, and mentor engineers while shaping standards and documentation.

As a Data Engineer, you will build and maintain data pipelines, convert data into metrics, and operate the platform on AWS. Responsibilities include writing production code, processing data from APIs, and enhancing the orchestration layer using Dagster, while ensuring compliance in a HIPAA-regulated environment.

As a Data Engineer, you will build and maintain data pipelines, ensure data quality, support ML workflows, and optimize query performance using various technologies.

Build and maintain scalable data pipelines and integrations using Databricks and Azure. Transform and model large structured and unstructured datasets to support reporting, analytics, and operational needs. Implement data quality, monitoring, and governance; troubleshoot pipeline performance; collaborate with stakeholders and mentor junior engineers.

The Data Engineer is responsible for designing data workflows and pipelines, implementing systems engineering principles, and deploying data streaming technologies while ensuring compliance with industry regulations and best practices.

Forward-deployed senior data engineer who deploys, hardens, integrates, and operates a data platform (lakehouse, streaming, governance) in DoD environments. Build pipelines across classification boundaries, produce accreditation evidence (STIG/cATO/FIPS), run day-2 operations, train mission teams, and mentor junior FDEs while feeding field feedback into product improvements.

The Forward Deployed Data Engineer will manage AI-automated data platform migration projects, ensuring timely delivery and communication with clients while utilizing proprietary tools.

The Data Engineer I at Storable supports the design and maintenance of data pipelines, works with ETL processes, optimizes workflows, and collaborates with various teams to enhance data accessibility and reliability.

Design, build, and maintain scalable batch and near-real-time data pipelines and data products using Databricks and Spark. Integrate internal/external sources, implement data models, ensure data quality, support BI (Sisense), CI/CD, and collaborate with analysts, scientists, and stakeholders to enable analytics and decision-making.

Design, build, and operate large-scale data platforms and Spark/PySpark pipelines. Enable data integration, modeling, quality, and observability. Build MCP servers and AI-augmented tooling, mentor engineers, and lead cross-functional projects to deliver reliable data products.

Design, build, and maintain scalable Spark-based ETL pipelines and computed tables in a central data lake. Integrate structured and unstructured IoT, sensor, and external data for analytics, model training, and dashboards. Collaborate with Data Science, Analytics, and ML teams to ensure reliable, high-quality customer-facing datasets.

Build and maintain cloud cost monitoring, alerting, and optimization tooling. Develop automation, cost allocation/tagging, data pipelines, dashboards, and integrations with billing APIs. Support FinOps processes, implement cost guardrails, troubleshoot cost systems, participate in on-call rotation, and collaborate with senior engineers and product teams to drive cost-efficient infrastructure and reporting.

Design, build, and maintain scalable ETL and data pipelines on AWS using Python/PySpark. Develop Glue/Lambda/Step Function workflows, event-driven integrations, and data lake/warehouse solutions. Tune SQL, implement monitoring/validation, support API/JSON integrations, troubleshoot operations, document and automate deployments, and mentor junior engineers.

Support building and maintaining ETL pipelines using Python and PySpark. Work with AWS services (Glue, Lambda, Step Functions, S3, Redshift, RDS, EMR) to ingest, transform, and validate data. Write complex SQL, implement basic monitoring/logging, process API/JSON payloads, and collaborate with engineers, analysts, and stakeholders on deployment and documentation.

Design and implement scalable data pipelines and orchestration on GCP to support AI/ML-driven mail intelligence. Build stream and batch processing, ensure data governance and quality, optimize workflows, create visualizations, and collaborate with US cross-functional teams to align technical strategy and recover from failures.