Top Remote Data Engineer Jobs in Baltimore, MD

Leads and mentors the Data Engineering team while remaining hands-on in designing, building, and maintaining scalable data pipelines, warehouses, integrations, and infrastructure. Establishes architecture, reliability, quality, and performance standards; guides technical delivery; and resolves complex issues. Partners with Finance and business stakeholders to translate data needs into practical solutions, sets technical direction, evaluates technologies, and communicates strategy, risks, and recommendations to leadership.

Leads and delivers complex data engineering projects, designing scalable data infrastructure, pipelines, warehouses, and data quality solutions. Recommends tools and architectures, optimizes data movement and performance, collaborates across technical teams, mentors engineers, and translates technical concepts for clients and nontechnical stakeholders. The role may also involve real-time processing, data modeling, transformation, security, and MLOps.

Build and operate core data infrastructure for edge and hybrid environments, including ingestion, OT/IoT integrations, real-time streaming, data contracts, schemas, validation, lineage, observability, telemetry, and scalable query access. The role requires production ownership, reliability practices, customer integration, and collaboration across engineering and customer-facing teams. Candidates should have 6+ years of experience with production data, streaming, or integration systems and proficiency in Python and/or Go.

Lead the architecture, development, and optimization of Snowflake and enterprise data platforms. Design scalable ETL/ELT pipelines, dimensional data models, and medallion architectures while establishing engineering standards for testing, deployment, monitoring, security, and data quality. Partner with stakeholders on technical roadmaps, mentor engineers and analysts, conduct design and code reviews, modernize legacy pipelines, and deliver reliable, reusable data solutions.

Build and operate large-scale data pipelines, web-scraping systems, and data-collection tools for AI datasets. Maintain analytical databases, optimize queries, troubleshoot pipeline and data-quality issues, manage containerized workloads across Kubernetes and Linux infrastructure, and support CI/CD workflows. The role also involves documenting technical processes, researching improvements, and developing scalable APIs in a fully remote environment.

Design and modify data solutions using Databricks and Palantir Foundry; build data models and reports from ERP and legacy-system datasets; define and execute tests; and translate stakeholder reporting needs into technical specifications. The role requires SQL, Python, PySpark, database architecture, cloud architecture, software engineering practices, independent execution, documentation, and collaboration. It supports an Army client in a hybrid Arlington, Virginia environment and requires an active Secret clearance.

As the first in-house Data Engineer, you will own the data infrastructure, build and maintain data pipelines, and collaborate with teams to ensure quality data access and insights.

Design and build PerfectServe’s unified cloud data platform, including ingestion pipelines, integrations, data models, metrics, and consumer-facing data layers. Establish architecture, engineering, quality, and testing standards; enable safe extraction from production systems; partner with data users; and mentor data engineers. The role requires substantial cloud data platform experience, deep SQL, warehouse expertise, ELT, change-data-capture, AWS, modeling, orchestration, and data quality skills.

Leads the design, development, and maintenance of scalable AWS data platforms, pipelines, ETL/ELT workflows, data models, and orchestration systems. Uses Python, PySpark, SQL, dbt, AWS services, modern lakehouse technologies, and CI/CD practices to deliver secure federal data solutions. Responsibilities include platform modernization, performance optimization, AI-enabled data integration, compliance support, technical mentoring, architecture discussions, and cross-functional Agile collaboration.

Staff Data Engineer responsible for defining data architecture strategy, building fault-tolerant batch and real-time streaming infrastructure, and managing scalable lakehouse and database systems. The role processes telemetry from millions of connected devices, drives performance tuning and data quality, supports on-call operations, evaluates modern technologies, and mentors engineers. It requires strong expertise in Python, SQL, cloud data platforms, streaming systems, infrastructure as code, and enterprise-scale architecture.

Build and manage scalable ETL/ELT pipelines using Microsoft Fabric and Azure Databricks, implement medallion architecture, support data migrations and legacy SSRS decommissioning, develop Power BI data models, and maintain governance, security, and CI/CD practices. The role also supports migration events and modernizes data infrastructure for advanced analytics and reporting.

Designs and maintains scalable cloud data architectures, pipelines, ETL processes, data warehouses, databases, and data models. Ensures data quality, accuracy, security, availability, and consistency across sources. Develops SQL queries for analytics and reporting, and documents pipelines, schemas, architectures, and models. The role requires expertise with Python, Java, Scala, R, SQL, relational and NoSQL databases, cloud platforms, and Snowflake.

Designs and delivers large-scale, governed data pipelines and infrastructure across the full data lifecycle. Responsibilities include coding in Python and SQL, optimizing Airflow, dbt, AWS, Kafka, and Iceberg/Parquet workflows, implementing data quality and observability, contributing to architecture and tool evaluations, mentoring engineers, collaborating with stakeholders, and participating in on-call support.

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.

Designs and maintains scalable data architecture, warehouses, ETL/ELT pipelines, and data platforms. Responsibilities include ensuring data quality, integrity, governance, accessibility, reliability, and performance; supporting customer onboarding and analytics tools; contributing to architecture and engineering best practices; troubleshooting complex data issues; and participating in on-call rotations. The role collaborates with engineering, product, solutions, business intelligence, and other cross-functional teams in healthcare and social care data environments.

Own the analytics data layer by translating stakeholder needs into certified dimensional models, governed metrics, semantic layers, dashboards, and reports. Build with dbt, SQL, Databricks, Power BI, and Airflow while ensuring data quality, observability, reconciliation, documentation, and dependable orchestration. Partner closely with finance, operations, and client-facing teams, automate recurring workflows, and use AI-assisted engineering practices in a fully remote environment.

Designs, builds, and operates scalable batch and streaming data pipelines, ELT/ETL workflows, and cloud data infrastructure. Ensures data reliability, quality, observability, lineage, performance, and cost efficiency across enterprise domains. Partners with analytics engineers, BI teams, and business stakeholders to deliver analytics-ready datasets. Establishes engineering practices including version control, CI/CD, automated testing, infrastructure-as-code, architecture standards, and documentation.

Designs scalable Databricks solutions and ETL/ELT pipelines while administering MariaDB and SQL Server environments. Responsibilities include database design, performance tuning, backup and disaster recovery, security and access management, data modeling, quality and lineage, and troubleshooting complex data issues. The role collaborates with stakeholders and technical teams, translates requirements into secure solutions, provides technical direction, and delivers demonstrations and training for Department of Transportation support.

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.