Top Senior Data Engineer Jobs in Minneapolis, MN

Develop and implement data solutions, pipelines, architectures, analytics, reports, and dashboards for clients. Apply Python, Java, ETL, business intelligence, and advanced analytics techniques to interpret complex data, improve operations, and support strategic decisions. Collaborate with stakeholders, manage client relationships, identify data challenges, and deliver high-quality managed services work while contributing to continuous process improvement.

Design, implement, and manage advanced data ecosystems and scalable ETL/ELT pipelines. Analyze complex problems, deliver data warehousing and governance solutions, mentor junior staff, and build client relationships while maintaining high standards and business-context awareness.

Lead design and implementation of enterprise data architecture and cloud-based data solutions. Manage large data engineering projects, develop data models and pipelines, ensure governance and security compliance, advise clients strategically, and build high-performing inclusive teams.

Design, build, and maintain scalable ETL/ELT pipelines and data warehouse architecture. Partner with cross-functional teams to define KPIs, ensure data quality and governance, own billing data infrastructure, and deliver dashboards and analytics for leadership while mentoring peers.

Lead the architecture and development of scalable AWS-based data ingestion, transformation, and orchestration pipelines. Build reliable data infrastructure using Python, SQL, Airflow, Lambda, ECS, SQS, and Terraform. Establish data modeling, quality, lineage, monitoring, testing, and observability practices while partnering with analysts, scientists, and backend engineers. Mentor senior engineers, guide technical decisions, and provide hands-on leadership for complex data platform initiatives.

The Principal Data Engineer will lead data engineering efforts on public cloud, design scalable solutions, build data pipelines, and drive deliverables with a high level of technical expertise in relevant technologies.

Design, develop, and maintain scalable batch and streaming data pipelines using Python, PySpark, SQL, Databricks, Kafka, and Azure services. Provide production support, incident resolution, vulnerability remediation, platform upgrades, and reliability improvements. Optimize data models and workloads, implement automation and AI-enabled solutions, support CI/CD and monitoring, and ensure security, governance, and healthcare privacy compliance. Collaborate with business and technology partners on enterprise data solutions.

Designs, builds, and operates scalable data systems and products on Cargill’s AWS-native Minerva platform. Develops batch and streaming pipelines, data models, lakehouse architectures, automated deployment pipelines, and governed analytics solutions. Migrates workloads from legacy CDP and Impala platforms, validating schemas, row counts, aggregates, and historical data accuracy. Collaborates with data and analytics teams across supply chain, procurement, manufacturing, commercial, and LATAM domains.

Administer, optimize, and modernize enterprise SQL Server, Azure SQL, MongoDB, and MongoDB Atlas environments. Responsibilities include performance tuning, high availability, disaster recovery, security, monitoring, migrations, automation, architecture guidance, and on-call support. The role also leads database projects and adopts AI-assisted engineering solutions to improve reliability and operational efficiency.

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.

Design, build, test, and operationalize data pipelines and solutions using cloud technologies. Ensure data quality, governance, and security; analyze sources; resolve defects; collaborate across teams; support AI/ML and BI use cases; and document and educate users on data products.

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.

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.

Build, test, and operationalize complex data pipelines and solutions on cloud platforms. Analyze and transform data, ensure data governance, security, and quality, troubleshoot defects, and collaborate across teams to support analytics, ML/AI, and business intelligence needs.

Lead enterprise data architecture and platform design across cloud, hybrid, and on‑prem environments. Own data modeling, database architecture, lake house/warehouse implementations, ETL/ELT pipelines, data governance, security, observability, and DevOps automation. Mentor teams, align platforms to business goals and regulatory needs, and drive modernization and performance optimization.

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.

The Senior Data Engineer will design and implement scalable data models in BigQuery using dbt for analytics and reporting, ensuring data governance and optimal performance.

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.

Lead design and delivery of scalable, secure cloud data pipelines and products. Translate requirements into architecture, apply advanced data modeling (Data Vault 2.0/dimensional), embed data quality, observability, security, and DataOps/CI-CD practices, optimize performance and cost, mentor engineers, and enable AI/ML-ready datasets within an agile DevSecOps model.

Lead architecture and delivery of a cloud-native, petabyte-scale data platform: define technical roadmap, mentor engineers, build ETL/ELT pipelines, enable real-time streaming, implement Iceberg table format, optimize Snowflake/Redshift/Athena compute, and integrate observability with Splunk.

Designs, implements, and supports enterprise data warehouses, data marts, operational data stores, ETL frameworks, and data integration solutions. Responsibilities include source analysis, data profiling, pipeline development, data mapping, transformation design, architecture documentation, testing, quality validation, deployment coordination, performance optimization, and regulatory compliance. The role collaborates with architects, business users, operations teams, and cross-functional partners while using Talend and cloud, big data, database, and scheduling technologies.

Lead graph data engineering to design, implement, and scale Neo4j-based graph platforms. Build graph models, ingestion pipelines (batch and streaming), integrate graphs with analytics/ML, establish governance, and enable graph-driven business use cases like fraud detection and Customer 360.

Architect, build, and operate low-latency market data systems, including feed handlers, normalization, distribution, and exchange connectivity. Design high-throughput infrastructure for real-time trading data, improve reliability and performance, participate in observability, on-call, and incident response, and deliver well-tested features end to end. Partner with engineering, product, and cross-functional stakeholders while leading a lean, high-impact team.