Top Senior Data Engineer Jobs in Raleigh, NC

As a Data Engineer, you will design and maintain data pipelines, support DoD systems, and ensure data quality and compliance.

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.

Design, build, and optimize large-scale Databricks/Spark/Delta Lake data pipelines and Redshift data platforms. Implement ETL/ELT patterns, ingest telemetry and behavioral data (Matomo, FullStory, Pendo), improve performance and observability, provide L2/L3 production support and RCA, and mentor engineers while shaping data architecture and best practices.

Designs and delivers data lakes, data warehouses, and reporting platforms. Builds and maintains ETL/ingestion pipelines into Snowflake, supports multiple source databases, implements data masking and reconciliation, and automates CI/CD deployments using AWS, Python, Jenkins/Concourse and related tools. Performs testing, documentation, post-install validation, and project planning across multiple initiatives in a financial services environment.

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.

The Senior Bioinformatics Data Engineer will build data pipelines, implement clinical data ingestion, and optimize platform infrastructure while ensuring data quality and compliance with legal standards.

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.

Responsible for IT strategy and solutions in R&D, overseeing system integration, stakeholder collaboration, and project prioritization at Zoetis.

Lead design and delivery of a cloud-based data platform: implement CDC/streaming ingestion, modeling, transformations, cross-region DB replication, observability, governance (PII, lineage, access), and enable downstream marts while mentoring engineers and driving IaC/automation-first practices.

Design, build, and maintain scalable ETL/data pipelines across distributed systems. Ensure data quality, integrity, security, and high availability. Monitor and optimize pipeline performance, perform root cause analysis, document systems, collaborate with global teams, and participate in on-call rotations to support production data systems.

Design, build, deploy, and operate scalable production data pipelines and workflows (Airflow, BigQuery, dbt). Own medium-sized platform initiatives end-to-end, ensure SLA-driven freshness, quality, and cost controls, implement monitoring and CI/CD, participate in on-call incident response, optimize warehouse performance, and collaborate with analytics, data science, product, and engineering stakeholders.

Lead architecture and hands-on engineering to design, scale, and govern a cloud-native lakehouse using Databricks and Microsoft Fabric. Build batch/streaming pipelines, ensure HIPAA-compliant PHI handling, produce analytics-ready datasets, mentor engineers, and drive platform strategy, governance, and reliability.

Design, build, and own data infrastructure and ETL/ELT pipelines (Airflow, S3, Lambda) into a governed Snowflake warehouse. Implement data quality, IaC (Terraform/CDK), CI/CD, and analytics solutions (SQL, Tableau). Enable ML/LLM use cases like forecasting and anomaly detection and deliver automated reporting and data-driven marketing outputs.

Build and maintain scalable ETL pipelines using Python, Spark, and Airflow; collaborate with AI/ML and Product teams to deliver AI-native data products; identify and resolve ETL bottlenecks; ensure code quality through reviews and tests; own sprint deliverables and contribute to roadmap planning and major epics.

Design, build, and maintain scalable data pipelines and tenant-aware APIs to ingest and transform data from varied sources. Work with event-driven and batch architectures, implement authentication and integration patterns, ensure observability/monitoring, optimize data flows for cost and performance, and collaborate with product, infrastructure, and engineering teams to onboard and maintain data sources at scale.

Design and build end-to-end geospatial data systems: ingest and process satellite imagery into columnar/chunked stores, expose results via GraphQL/REST and FastAPI, build Next.js/React dashboards, automate with IaC and CI/CD, orchestrate pipelines with Prefect, optimize petabyte-scale I/O, and lead hiring, mentoring, and engineering best practices.

Design, build, and maintain scalable data models and pipelines using Python and SQL. Collaborate with product and SMEs to create analytics-ready healthcare datasets, maintain data engineering systems, document solutions, and iterate based on product feedback.

Seeking a Senior BODS Developer to develop and maintain complex BODS processes for data transformation. The role includes improving data quality using Information Steward and GAC/URAC techniques, collaborating with teams, creating documentation, and mentoring others.

Design, build, and maintain Scala-based ETL and streaming data pipelines, APIs, and data microservices in Azure. Optimize LLM fine-tuning and RAG workflows, support DevOps/CI-CD practices, document standards, mentor engineers, and manage data ingestion frameworks for analytics and partner integrations.

Lead development and ownership of end-to-end data pipelines and platform tools. Build and optimize ingestion, transform data with dbt and Jinja, implement monitoring/alerting, manage deployments and CI/CD, and create self-service analytics applications and internal tooling.

The Senior Data Engineer will design and implement data engineering solutions, maintain data pipelines, and ensure data security and governance practices while collaborating with teams to meet business requirements.

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.

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.

The Senior Data Engineer will develop data engineering solutions, manage ETL workflows, and establish a new data practice while collaborating with stakeholders.