Top Senior Data Engineer Jobs in Indianapolis, IN

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.

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.

As a Senior Forward Deployed Data Engineer, you will design and implement data pipelines for media agency clients, manage technical delivery, and ensure data security while mentoring junior engineers and communicating effectively with stakeholders.

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.

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.

Lead design and implementation of batch and streaming data pipelines, build data models, implement data quality and testing, manage orchestration and IaC, mentor engineers, and communicate technical direction and tradeoffs to stakeholders.

Design, build, and maintain scalable batch and streaming data pipelines and storage on AWS. Own features end-to-end, collaborate with cross-functional teams, ensure data quality and observability, mentor engineers, and occasionally support field deployments.

Design, build, and maintain ingestion and transformation pipelines for a knowledge-graph analytics platform. Profile and prepare structured and semi-structured source data, ensure data lineage and traceability, implement transformation logic for graph loading, collaborate with data scientists on graph modeling and entity resolution, improve pipeline reliability, and document ingestion patterns using version control and issue tracking.

Design, build, and maintain Keboola-based data pipelines integrating multiple business systems to deliver accurate, scalable data for supply chain, logistics, and transportation analytics; collaborate with analysts and engineers; support documentation, governance, and pipeline automation.

Lead enterprise data platform strategy and architecture, define data standards and governance, drive Snowflake maturity, oversee legacy data migrations, design ingestion and DataOps patterns, and enable analytics, reporting, AI, and reusable data products across the organization.

Own and optimize data infrastructure and ETL/ELT pipelines using SSIS and Microsoft Fabric. Build and maintain SQL Server data warehouse staging, transformations, and lakehouse ingestion. Implement CI/CD, version control with GitHub, monitor pipeline health, troubleshoot data issues, document data flows, and translate stakeholder requirements into data engineering solutions that support BI reporting.

Build and maintain production-grade data pipelines and ELT processes using Python, SQL, Airflow, and dbt within AWS. Design optimized schemas in PostgreSQL and Redshift, leverage AI/LLMs to improve development, automation, testing, and data quality, and scale infrastructure for large healthcare datasets.

Build and maintain enterprise data platform and ETL/ELT pipelines, design and deploy data models, ensure data quality and governance, integrate third-party sources, and support analytics and AI initiatives across the organization.

Design, build, and maintain enterprise data warehouses and lakes; implement ETL pipelines; optimize data models and performance; produce analytics and predictive models; create dashboards and visualizations; monitor data quality; document and collaborate with stakeholders to drive data-driven business solutions.

Designs, builds, and maintains scalable data warehouses, pipelines, and lakes using the Microsoft analytics stack. Transforms and models data, develops ETL/ELT, reporting, and dashboards, and partners with clients to gather requirements and deliver reliable analytics solutions. Works across the full delivery lifecycle and within Agile practices.

Design, build, and maintain scalable ETL/ELT data pipelines and analytical platforms on AWS and Databricks. Migrate legacy workflows to cloud-native services, implement data lake and catalog solutions, enable AI/RAG/vector search, ensure FedRAMP/NIST compliance, optimize performance, and mentor junior engineers while collaborating in Agile teams.

Lead design, operation, and reliability of production data pipelines in a multi-terabyte Snowflake environment. Translate client requirements into dimensional models, debug and remediate pipeline failures, evolve the data mart for event-driven and AI workflows, and improve pipeline trustworthiness via testing, CI/CD, audit logging, and documentation.

Design, build, and operate Alpaca's scalable data platform and lakehouse infrastructure. Build low-latency streaming and CDC ingestion, batch pipelines landing in Iceberg, and tooling for BI and AI consumers. Manage IaC, Kubernetes deployments, monitoring/incident response, and partner with DevOps and analytics teams to meet growing data requirements.

Own end-to-end client data migrations: reverse-engineer legacy ETL, design and build Airflow DAGs and Spark jobs, validate and reconcile data at scale, document architecture and decisions, and coordinate cross-functional teams through go-live and hypercare.

Design, build, and own end-to-end data systems and pipelines powering payments, fraud response, and reporting. Implement streaming and batch integrations, APIs, and workflow orchestration. Define data correctness with monitoring, alerting, and tests. Create reusable patterns and collaborate with stakeholders to clarify requirements and tradeoffs.

Design and scale data infrastructure, ensure data quality and governance, collaborate with teams on data products, and modernize practices.