Top Senior Data Engineer Jobs in Philadelphia, PA

Designs and operates data infrastructure for a clinical trial platform. Builds pipelines that extract, normalize, validate, and link information from clinical documents and publications into Aurora and GraphDB. Develops embeddings, vector search, RAG workflows, data-serving APIs, lineage tracking, and regulatory audit trails. The role also requires AWS-based orchestration, clinical data quality controls, biomedical knowledge graph modeling, and deployment automation using infrastructure-as-code and containerization.

Designs and delivers backend systems, APIs, data models, ETL workflows, data interactions, and user interfaces. Optimizes data operations for scalability, performance, integrity, and security while contributing to automated testing and CI/CD. Requires strong Python and Apache Spark experience, distributed computing knowledge, Agile experience, and data analysis skills. The role supports healthcare-focused digital services in a remote-first environment.

Lead Cohere’s Data Foundation pillar, managing a team responsible for the full data lifecycle. Own the roadmap, BigQuery warehouse, Airflow and Cloud Run orchestration, dbt modeling, Looker and API serving, Terraform infrastructure, governance, access controls, reliability, incident response, and data freshness SLAs. Lead development of an agentic analytics platform and evaluation framework, establish company-wide analytics standards, and partner with product, engineering, security, legal, and business teams.

Architect and lead enterprise data platforms, pipelines, and infrastructure using Spark, Databricks, and cloud technologies. Build scalable data models and dimensional schemas, establish governance and data quality frameworks, optimize performance and reliability, and implement monitoring. Partner with stakeholders to translate requirements into technical solutions, lead design reviews, mentor engineers, contribute to platform strategy, troubleshoot complex failures, and support hiring and team development.

Own end-to-end production data platforms, writing Python and SQL, designing AWS pipelines, modeling analytics data, and implementing quality and reconciliation controls. Make architecture decisions independently, ensure correctness and auditability, and use AI coding tools effectively. The role also supports applied AI initiatives including entity resolution, LLM-assisted analytics, embeddings, and anomaly scoring.

Owns the end-to-end data platform, including Snowflake infrastructure, ingestion pipelines, Airflow orchestration, dbt transformations, governed gold-layer models, and metric definitions. Ensures reliability, performance, testing, documentation, governance, and CI/CD standards. Builds data systems from scratch, partners with analytics stakeholders, and uses AI-assisted development tools to accelerate engineering work. Requires strong SQL, platform ownership, software engineering practices, and experience with Snowflake, Airflow, and dbt.

Build and optimize data transformation pipelines using SQL, dbt, Airflow, Python, BigQuery, and relational databases. Collaborate with stakeholders and data engineers, manage task scheduling, resolve data issues, perform analyses, present recommendations, support data exploration tool adoption, and mentor team members. The role also contributes to hiring, onboarding, and professional development while ensuring data accuracy and insight quality.

Build and operate large-scale audio data pipelines for AI model training. Responsibilities include discovering data sources, improving data-processing systems for quality, throughput, and cost, collaborating with AI scientists, and owning engineering projects through continuous improvement.

Build and operate large-scale audio data pipelines for AI model training. Responsibilities include discovering data sources, developing reliable processing systems, optimizing data quality, throughput, and cost, and collaborating with AI scientists. The role requires ownership of engineering projects from discovery through continuous improvement in a distributed, ambiguous environment.

Build and operate large-scale audio data pipelines for AI model training. Responsibilities include discovering data sources, processing petabyte-scale datasets, optimizing quality, throughput, and cost, collaborating with AI scientists, and owning engineering projects from discovery through continuous improvement.

Build and operate large-scale data pipelines that acquire, process, and improve audio datasets for AI model training. The role focuses on data quality, throughput, cost optimization, production systems, and collaboration with AI scientists. Responsibilities include discovering data sources, developing reliable processing systems, and owning engineering projects from discovery through continuous improvement.

Build and operate large-scale audio data pipelines for AI model training. Responsibilities include discovering data sources, developing reliable data-processing systems, optimizing data quality, throughput, and cost, and collaborating with AI scientists. The role requires ownership of engineering projects from discovery through continuous improvement in a distributed, autonomous environment.

Build and operate large-scale audio data pipelines for AI model training. Responsibilities include discovering data sources, developing reliable data acquisition and processing systems, optimizing quality, throughput, and cost, and collaborating with AI scientists. The role requires ownership of engineering projects from discovery through continuous improvement, with emphasis on backend development, production systems, and scalable data processing.

Build and operate large-scale data pipelines that collect, process, and optimize audio datasets for AI model training. The role involves discovering data sources, improving data quality, throughput, and cost efficiency, collaborating with AI scientists, and owning engineering projects from discovery through continuous improvement.

Designs and maintains secure, reliable data platforms, including relational data models, migrations, pipelines, monitoring, data quality processes, and self-service reporting access. The role protects PHI and PII through access controls, encryption, audit logging, and governance in a HIPAA environment. It also involves backend API development, code reviews, security reviews, stakeholder collaboration, and mentoring teams on data practices.

Build and own Snout’s data foundation, including PostgreSQL and dbt warehouses, ingestion pipelines, dimensional models, data quality, documentation, and reliable rebuilds. Reconcile data from veterinary practice-management systems, support LLM/AI tooling, translate stakeholder needs into technical plans, and establish the foundation for a future data team and analyst.

Design, develop, and operate large-scale data ingestion, transformation, enrichment, and processing pipelines across cloud, hybrid, and on-premises environments. Build distributed services using Java, Python, and Kafka; optimize data models and platform performance; deploy applications on Kubernetes; support infrastructure automation and CI/CD; troubleshoot production systems; and collaborate with customers and solution architects on implementations.

Leads and develops a data engineering team implementing Navigate360 integrations for partner campuses. Oversees integration design, data mapping, validation, reconciliation, quality controls, delivery planning, and scalable implementation processes. Partners with Product, Launch, and Partner Success teams to resolve technical and partner challenges, improve adoption, manage project health, and ensure reliable outcomes. Provides technical mentorship, code and design review, stakeholder communication, and continuous process improvement.

Design, build, and own business-critical data pipelines and infrastructure across warehouses, orchestration, BI, and multiple regions. Develop AWS Glue and Spark jobs, data models, event contracts, observability, and batch or streaming architectures. Collaborate across producer and consumer teams, support Federal workloads, and operate production data platforms in government cloud environments.

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.

Designs, builds, and maintains scalable ETL and data processing pipelines supporting analytics, forecasting, risk, and customer insights. Leads complex SQL development, data modeling, governance, quality, lineage, security, and compliance. Partners with engineering, finance, sales, compliance, product, analysts, and data scientists to translate requirements into reliable workflows. Evaluates emerging technologies, leads proof-of-concepts, and develops automated solutions using Python, Spark, Databricks, cloud platforms, orchestration tools, and modern data warehouses.

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.

Leads the design, development, optimization, and migration of modern data platforms in Snowflake. Builds pipelines with dbt, Python, and cloud services; gathers client requirements; creates solution designs and project plans; advises on Snowflake performance, cost, security, and workload management; integrates BI, governance, and AI/ML tools; contributes to accelerators and mentors junior engineers. The role is remote, client-facing, consultative, and focused primarily on technical delivery rather than sales.

Build and operate batch and streaming data pipelines, ETL/ELT workflows, data warehouses, dimensional models, and reusable data services. Improve reliability, performance, quality, and cost efficiency through monitoring, testing, automation, and incident response. Partner with analytics, data science, product, business, platform, and infrastructure teams to deliver production data solutions and roadmap initiatives. Apply AI-assisted tools responsibly to development, testing, documentation, and troubleshooting.

Lead data engineering strategy and develop enterprise data lake solutions on AWS. Build data pipelines using AWS data integration, engineering, and analytics resources, develop API services with FastAPI or Flask, optimize engineering practices, create long-term data plans, and represent the team in executive meetings.