Top Data Engineer Jobs in Raleigh, NC

Designs and operates an AWS-native lakehouse supporting analytics, reporting, visualization, and AI/ML. Builds batch and streaming ingestion pipelines using Python and PySpark, Apache Iceberg data structures, governance and metadata services, quality controls, security, observability, and CI/CD automation. Optimizes performance, scalability, reliability, and cost while collaborating with cross-functional technical teams and documenting architecture, operations, and secure configurations.

Lead design, build, and operate scalable Databricks/Delta Lake data pipelines and Kimball dimensional models using dbt. Manage governance with Unity Catalog, optimize performance and cost, operationalize ML with MLflow, and coordinate/quality-check offshore vendor engineering. Mentor engineers, uphold standards, and deliver trusted data products that power analytics, reporting, and MLOps workflows.

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.

Designs, analyzes, documents, integrates, and migrates complex environmental datasets for AirHub business lines. Responsibilities include analyzing legacy databases, creating logical and physical data models, documenting mappings and business rules, developing migration specifications and API integrations, supporting data governance and testing, and producing technical documentation. The role also requires close collaboration with business stakeholders in an Agile delivery environment.

Lead financial data engineering initiatives involving commissions, incentive programs, and backend financial systems. Build scalable, accurate, and reliable data pipelines, platform tooling, partner integrations, analytics infrastructure, and data science infrastructure. Shape technical strategy and roadmaps, collaborate with Finance, Product, Data Science, and Engineering, mentor engineers, contribute code, lead incident response, and establish engineering standards.

Develops scalable data models, Databricks pipelines, backend applications, ETL processes, and data ingestion systems. Partners with engineering, product, and business stakeholders on technical roadmaps; monitors and optimizes data systems for performance, reliability, and scalability. Provides technical leadership, mentors junior engineers, conducts code reviews, and builds secure solutions for sensitive healthcare data.

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.

Own the architecture and technical direction of Northbeam’s data ingestion and integration platform. Design scalable API-based ETL, event-driven and batch processing systems; establish standards for observability, freshness, and failure handling; and guide build-versus-buy decisions. Collaborate across engineering, infrastructure, product, and business teams while mentoring engineers, leading design reviews, and driving complex platform initiatives to completion.

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.

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.

Build scalable production-grade ETL/ELT pipelines on Databricks using PySpark, Spark SQL, Delta Lake, Delta Live Tables, and Workflows. Develop data ingestion, transformations, quality rules, orchestration, monitoring, and automation across Bronze, Silver, and Gold layers. Apply dimensional data modeling, streaming, cloud platforms, CI/CD, governance, security, performance tuning, and lakehouse architecture. Explain technical concepts and architecture decisions using real project examples.

Designs and maintains healthcare data pipelines, ETL workflows, databases, data models, and analytical frameworks. Analyzes claims and payer data to identify trends and insights, while ensuring data quality and integrity. Creates reports, dashboards, and visualizations for nontechnical stakeholders and collaborates with healthcare policy experts, analysts, and other stakeholders to translate requirements into data solutions. The role also improves data infrastructure and analytics capabilities.

Architect and operate BILL’s enterprise data platform across ingestion, lake storage, batch and streaming processing, query, feature store, knowledge graph, and search layers. Drive platform-wide technical decisions, migrations, standards, reliability, cost efficiency, and self-service capabilities. Partner with ML, Risk, Payments, and Analytics teams to deliver scalable solutions, lead complex initiatives from inception through production, and mentor senior and staff engineers.

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.

Design, build, and maintain scalable Snowflake data pipelines and workflows. Ingest, transform, and deliver data from EHRs, claims, APIs, and CRM systems into analytics-ready structures. Optimize Snowflake performance and costs through warehouse sizing, query tuning, data modeling, and security design. Implement orchestration, DevOps, version control, and CI/CD practices while collaborating with client architects and analysts. The role also involves explaining technical tradeoffs, supporting repeatable deployments, adapting to unfamiliar challenges, and mentoring others.

Build and maintain modern data-centric applications, pipelines, transformations, enrichment processes, provisioning layers, and user interfaces supporting clinical and operational healthcare processes. Analyze clinical data and report trends using cloud, big data, data science, and modern software development practices. Collaborate with Product, Platform, and Architecture teams, mentor Data Engineers, document solutions, manage source control, and research emerging technologies.

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.

Design and deliver modern data platforms, scalable and secure ingestion and transformation pipelines, durable data models, streaming systems, and reporting layers. Partner directly with clients and business stakeholders to translate requirements into architecture, explain tradeoffs, and own delivery outcomes. The role includes production implementation across cloud data platforms, orchestration, governance, real-time technologies, and analytics or AI data consumption.

Build and maintain governed Silver/Gold data models and semantic assets on Databricks. Translate stakeholder KPIs into testable, reusable transformations, apply enterprise modeling standards, enable domain self-service, ensure data sensitivity and governance, and review domain-contributed models for production readiness.

Build Sailor Health’s foundational data platform from scratch. Responsibilities include developing Snowflake and dbt pipelines integrating EHR, CRM, and communications data; creating data-powered web applications; automating clinical and billing workflows with Python; analyzing therapy transcripts and patient data using AI and machine learning; tracking clinical outcomes; and designing scalable data architectures in collaboration with clinicians, engineers, founders, and other teams.

Senior consulting data engineer responsible for leading complex data engineering projects, coding robust solutions, designing complex data models, troubleshooting and optimizing data operations, mentoring engineers, interfacing with customers and cross-functional teams, and ensuring quality through testing, code reviews, and performance tuning to deliver on-time, on-budget solutions.

Own and evolve Worldly’s production data lake, Postgres warehouse, CDC and streaming pipelines, dbt transformations, orchestration, BI access controls, and graph integrations. Maintain reliable, governed analytics infrastructure using Iceberg, Trino, Dagster, Terraform, and AWS. Support production generative AI workflows involving embeddings, similarity search, extraction, and classification. Responsibilities include data quality, monitoring, security, incident response, disaster recovery, schema governance, and collaboration with data science and analytics stakeholders.

Designs, administers, and optimizes data systems supporting FSA IAM applications. Develops migration plans from legacy AIMS and PAS systems, creates data models, mappings, layouts, dictionaries, and integration processes, and supports analytics and fraud detection. Manages database configuration, performance tuning, monitoring, backups, capacity, secure data handling, encryption, network data flows, token management, and documentation while collaborating with development, security, and operations teams.

Design, build, and operate large-scale data platforms and Spark/PySpark pipelines. Enable data integration, modeling, quality, and observability. Build MCP servers and AI-augmented tooling, mentor engineers, and lead cross-functional projects to deliver reliable data products.