Top Senior Data Engineer Jobs in Huntsville, AL

Lead architecture and implementation of a large-scale analytics stack: design foundational pipelines, establish modeling/orchestration standards, integrate AI-assisted engineering tools, translate business questions into version-controlled data models, partner with stakeholders to define metrics and data contracts, migrate logic into maintainable pipelines, and optimize cloud warehouse performance for scale.

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 Data Engineer will design and maintain data pipelines, enhance the data warehouse, support machine learning applications, and collaborate with various teams to leverage data effectively.

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.

Design, develop, maintain, and optimize ADABAS database structures and data solutions. Support mainframe data processing (Natural, COBOL, JCL), perform migrations to modern platforms, tune performance, ensure data integrity/security, troubleshoot issues, and collaborate with developers, architects, and analysts on modernization, API/cloud integration, and data warehousing initiatives.

Build, maintain, and optimize cloud data pipelines and dbt models; design Airflow DAGs; implement dimensional models and BI dashboards; integrate healthcare data with HIPAA-compliant practices; contribute to RAG pipelines and MLOps workflows; review contractor code, monitor data quality, and document designs following governance standards.

Design, build, and deliver a global analytics platform: manage data collection and pipelines, develop visualizations and reports, create semantic models, tune performance, collaborate with IT and business stakeholders, and implement governance for analytics products.

The Senior Data Engineer will design and build data pipelines and infrastructure to support data science and business intelligence solutions, utilizing AWS services and streaming technologies.

Design, build, and maintain scalable backend systems and data pipelines to generate point-of-care insights; collaborate with product and engineering stakeholders; mentor junior engineers; ensure solutions are secure, performant, maintainable, and support analytics and unified metrics collection.

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.

Lead scaling of Arbital's AWS/Databricks lakehouse and Spark pipelines, implement actuarial healthcare calculations, own Airflow orchestration and CI/CD, ensure data quality and HIPAA-compliant PHI handling, partner with data scientists to deploy ML models, and set platform architecture and engineering standards.

Own and evolve end-to-end data pipeline architecture across ingestion, transformation, modeling, and serving. Lead platform improvements (cost, compute efficiency, access control), CI/CD, monitoring, and incident response. Drive cross-team technical initiatives, mentor engineers, and integrate AI tooling to improve workflows while remaining hands-on building and debugging production pipelines.

Design, build, and optimize ETL pipelines and data platform architecture using Airflow, BigQuery, Python, and Spark. Lead technical decisions, mentor engineers, collaborate with product and stakeholders, and improve data-quality and testing frameworks to support data-driven products.

Own end-to-end data pipelines (ingest, dbt transformations, BigQuery warehousing) and consolidate the analytics stack into a single source of truth. Build and maintain dbt models with tests and documentation, establish data quality and observability, own product analytics and instrumentation, partner with GTM and marketing on reporting, and prepare for high-volume/streaming ingestion.

Design, build, test, and maintain scalable cloud-based data platforms and ETL/ELT pipelines (batch and near-real-time). Implement data models, data marts, governance, metadata, CI/CD and IaC, optimize pipeline performance, support migrations/DR, produce documentation, and collaborate with architects, DBAs, and stakeholders to meet federal security and audit requirements.

Lead design, build, test, and maintain scalable cloud data platforms and pipelines (ETL/ELT, batch and streaming). Ensure data quality, governance, security, CI/CD deployment, performance tuning, migration/archival, and mentor data engineering teams to support analytics and AI/ML use cases for a federal modernization program.

Design, build, and maintain production-scale data systems and web-scale datasets (Spark/Flink) to support personalization ML. Drive dataset/schema design, collaborate with algorithm teams, and improve distributed big-data processing for member experience.

Design, build, test, deploy, and support enterprise data solutions for financial reporting, reserving, and claims. Develop and maintain pipelines, transformations, data models, and controls using SQL, Python, PySpark, and Microsoft Fabric. Automate reconciliations and data quality checks, partner with business stakeholders, perform testing, review code, mentor peers, and resolve production issues to improve reporting accuracy and operational efficiency.

Owner of data platform modernization: design and migrate legacy systems to Kimball-style dimensional models and star schemas; build reliable production data pipelines; enforce data hygiene and validation; champion dbt best practices; mentor junior engineers; collaborate with analysts and stakeholders to ensure scalable, well-documented data models and platform observability.

Technical leader for Data Engineering responsible for designing, operating, and optimizing Snowflake-based data platforms, self-hosted orchestration (Prefect), dbt practices, AWS infrastructure, and data pipelines. Drive architecture, mentor engineers, partner cross-functionally, ensure observability and production-grade practices, and enable model-ready datasets and AI/LLM workflows.

Design, build, operate, and optimize large-scale production data pipelines and foundational Healthcare Map data products using Python, SQL, Airflow, Spark, and AWS. Ensure data quality, observability, and performance; debug complex workflows; contribute to architecture, CI/CD, testing, documentation, and cross-functional delivery to enable analytics and AI/ML use cases.

Lead data engineering for a healthcare scheduling platform rebuild: map legacy multi-TB schema, design target schema, build translation layer (views/materialized views and write mappers), ensure data consistency during parallel systems, plan per-tenant cutover with verification and rollback, tune DB performance, instrument data quality/lineage/audit, and mentor engineers.

Design, build, and scale reliable batch and real-time data pipelines and warehouses. Partner with engineering, data science, and business teams to define data models, improve observability, optimize storage and querying, and evangelize data engineering best practices across the company.

Design, build, and maintain scalable Databricks-based data pipelines and ELT workflows; develop and document dbt models; define data modeling methodology; ensure data quality, reliability, and scalability; collaborate with clients and cross-functional teams; provide technical guidance and deliver improvements to clients' data infrastructure and analytics capabilities.