Top Data Engineer Jobs in Houston, TX

Designs and delivers large-scale, governed data pipelines and infrastructure across the full data lifecycle. Responsibilities include coding in Python and SQL, optimizing Airflow, dbt, AWS, Kafka, and Iceberg/Parquet workflows, implementing data quality and observability, contributing to architecture and tool evaluations, mentoring engineers, collaborating with stakeholders, and participating in on-call support.

Designs and manages scalable data pipelines, contracts, transformation layers, and analytics models. The role focuses on data governance, observability, lineage, configuration validation, and collaboration with product engineering teams. It requires processing large datasets, integrating cloud and on-premises industrial technologies, and implementing streaming and message-queuing solutions, ideally in cybersecurity or industrial environments.

Build and operate cloud data capabilities, including ingestion pipelines, transformations, data models, curated data products, and data-quality controls. Use Snowflake, dbt, SQL, and Python to deliver governed data for analytics, applications, automation, and AI workflows. Implement testing, CI/CD, documentation, lineage, access controls, monitoring, incident resolution, and performance optimization. Collaborate with engineering, analytics, governance, security, and business teams in an Agile, product-oriented environment with active AI-assisted development.

Design and operate scalable, cloud-native data pipelines and orchestration systems for imaging, biomarker, and healthcare data. Build Databricks and distributed processing workflows, integrate DICOM data into data lakes, and implement validation, observability, monitoring, and fault tolerance. Collaborate with data science, AI, R&D, product, and data management teams to deliver secure, compliant, reliable data for analytics and machine learning.

Own and maintain the companys data infrastructure and pipelines. Design, build, and monitor ETL/ELT workflows and data architecture; integrate SaaS sources; enforce data quality, standards, and governance; partner with stakeholders to deliver analytics-ready data and meet data availability SLAs.

Designs and operates an AWS-native lakehouse supporting analytics, reporting, visualization, and AI/ML. Builds batch and streaming ingestion pipelines using Python and PySpark, Apache Iceberg data structures, governance and metadata services, quality controls, security, observability, and CI/CD automation. Optimizes performance, scalability, reliability, and cost while collaborating with cross-functional technical teams and documenting architecture, operations, and secure configurations.

Designs and maintains data warehouses, semantic models, metrics layers, pipelines, dashboards, and certified datasets. Establishes KPI governance, data security, row-level access controls, quality standards, and observability. Builds Sigma, Power BI, and Databricks dashboards, supports self-service analytics, resolves BI issues, and enables AI/ML use cases. Collaborates with architecture, engineering, analysts, and business stakeholders to define requirements, document solutions, train users, and drive BI adoption.

Build, deploy, and operate production-grade data pipelines and data products for healthcare audiences. Design transformations, data models, and governed views using Python, SQL, Airflow, S3, Snowflake, and EMR. Implement data-quality, monitoring, and privacy-by-design controls for PHI/PII. Partner with product, analytics, and platform teams to onboard sources, support audience discovery, segmentation, activation, measurement, and troubleshoot production issues.

Build, optimize, and maintain data pipelines, ETL processes, data architectures, AI solutions, and analytics platforms. Develop cloud-based solutions using Azure Functions and containerization, implement CI/CD workflows, integrate databases and APIs, and ensure data quality, monitoring, reliability, and documentation. Troubleshoot production issues, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and apply modern data engineering, AI, cloud, and DevOps practices.

Lead financial data engineering initiatives involving commissions, incentive programs, and backend financial systems. Build scalable, accurate, and reliable data pipelines, platform tooling, partner integrations, analytics infrastructure, and data science infrastructure. Shape technical strategy and roadmaps, collaborate with Finance, Product, Data Science, and Engineering, mentor engineers, contribute code, lead incident response, and establish engineering standards.

Design, build, and maintain scalable big data pipelines, architectures, distributed databases, and storage systems. Use Python and frameworks such as Hadoop, Spark, or Flink for data integration, transformation, and processing. Ensure system performance, availability, security, governance, and data quality while collaborating with cross-functional teams and documenting technical solutions.

Build scalable data and AI platforms, APIs, intelligent agents, and cloud-native applications using generative AI and LLMs. Lead architecture and technical strategy, create reusable AI frameworks and services, establish governance and security practices, and provide hands-on engineering leadership through coding, reviews, mentoring, and cross-functional collaboration.

Build and maintain Google Cloud data pipelines and ETL/ELT processes supporting GenAI and RAG solutions. Classify and govern sensitive data using Dataplex and Cloud DLP, enforce access controls, assess AI readiness, and design reusable schemas and data models. Collaborate with engineering, delivery, and client teams to integrate legacy systems, monitor pipeline reliability, conduct data quality testing, document data flows, and proactively identify compliance and delivery risks.

Develops scalable data models, Databricks pipelines, backend applications, ETL processes, and data ingestion systems. Partners with engineering, product, and business stakeholders on technical roadmaps; monitors and optimizes data systems for performance, reliability, and scalability. Provides technical leadership, mentors junior engineers, conducts code reviews, and builds secure solutions for sensitive healthcare data.

Build and operate NVIDIA DGX Cloud’s data platform, including batch and streaming pipelines, distributed data workloads, data products, quality monitoring, security, observability, and self-service consumption. Own systems from architecture through deployment and incident response. Improve platform reliability, scalability, and engineering practices while mentoring teammates. Work primarily with Python and SQL across cloud infrastructure, databases, Spark, telemetry, and operational data.

Clean and reconcile employee master data and historical leave records from multiple sources. Define standardized HR data structures, establish validation and access controls, and automate leave request, approval, and balance tracking workflows using Google Workspace or a suitable alternative. Document maintenance processes and support potential expansion across international branches. The contractor will independently manage the fixed-scope project, propose an RFQ, and provide timeline, hours, costs, assumptions, and deliverables.

Build and operate scalable cloud data pipelines, warehouses, transformation layers, and ML production systems. Lead data infrastructure architecture, warehouse performance optimization, DataOps monitoring, CI/CD improvements, data quality testing, and large-scale data product delivery. Collaborate across teams, promote data stewardship, and support batch and streaming pipelines while deploying, serving, and monitoring machine learning models.

Own the architecture and technical direction of Northbeam’s data ingestion and integration platform. Design scalable API-based ETL, event-driven and batch processing systems; establish standards for observability, freshness, and failure handling; and guide build-versus-buy decisions. Collaborate across engineering, infrastructure, product, and business teams while mentoring engineers, leading design reviews, and driving complex platform initiatives to completion.

Provides technical leadership for scalable on-premises and AWS data warehouse solutions, including Amazon Redshift. Designs, develops, tests, and implements high-availability data applications and batch or real-time pipelines processing terabytes of data. Partners with architects, data scientists, product teams, and business stakeholders to define solutions, improve processes, enforce data standards, and lead Agile technical teams. Requires strong expertise in ETL, Ab Initio, SQL, relational databases, cloud engineering, and regulated financial data environments.

Leads the design, optimization, and governance of scalable data architectures and pipelines. Ensures data quality, integrity, security, and compliance; mentors junior engineers; conducts audits and validation; and collaborates on data governance. The role requires expertise in SQL, Python, dimensional modeling, Snowflake on Azure, Azure Data Factory, Databricks, ETL, and data warehousing, with preferred experience in Airflow, Kafka, healthcare, data lineage, and slowly changing dimensions.

As the founding engineer of the Data Intelligence team, you will design semantic layers, develop AI tooling, and automate data processes to drive business insights.

Lead design and scaling of the data platform and analytics pipelines. Build and maintain ETL/ELT workflows, integrations, serverless data services, and reliable data models. Mentor teammates, improve automation, observability, and data governance to support analytics and operational insights.

Own and evolve the data infrastructure powering identity and fraud products. Build and operate scalable ETL/ELT pipelines, ensure data quality and observability, optimize storage and access, support product squads, respond to production incidents, mentor engineers, and drive data platform innovation.

Lead the Data Platform Engineering team owning ETL/reverse-ETL pipelines, replication, and production datastores. Define architecture, roadmap, standards (IaC, observability, schema contracts), mentor engineers, drive incident response and durable fixes, and partner on cross-team technical decisions and operational reliability for data correctness, completeness, and timeliness.

Designs and maintains healthcare data pipelines, ETL workflows, databases, data models, and analytical frameworks. Analyzes claims and payer data to identify trends and insights, while ensuring data quality and integrity. Creates reports, dashboards, and visualizations for nontechnical stakeholders and collaborates with healthcare policy experts, analysts, and other stakeholders to translate requirements into data solutions. The role also improves data infrastructure and analytics capabilities.