Top Remote Data Engineer Jobs in Birmingham, AL

Lead the vision and execution for scalable data governance and quality across Airbnb. Architect future-proof data ecosystems, define best practices and tooling, drive cross-functional policy implementation (privacy, legal, infosec), mentor senior engineers, and influence executive strategy to embed stewardship into the data product lifecycle.

The Senior Data Engineer will design and manage data pipelines, work with complex datasets, and collaborate with teams to enhance data product integrity and effectiveness.

Design, build, and operate large-scale AWS-based ETL pipelines using Glue/PySpark to ingest, transform, and curate multi-format data into Apache Iceberg tables. Ensure data quality, metadata management, semantic layer creation (Trino/Athena), CloudFormation deployments, documentation, and compliance within a FedRAMP federal agile environment.

Serve as a data quality and QA engineer on a federal data platform: build automated AWS Glue/Deequ data quality checks, validate schemas and ETL pipelines, create and run unit/integration tests with 90% coverage, support IV&V and UAT, perform static/security scans, produce test documentation, monitor production ETL, and collaborate with data stewards and IV&V teams.

Define and lead the technical architecture for a lakehouse on AWS, build production pipelines and data models for time-series and multi-source data, introduce data governance and catalog foundations, author platform playbooks (ADRs, runbooks, Terraform modules), deliver projects end-to-end, and mentor engineers while representing the platform to senior leadership and non-technical stakeholders.

Build and maintain automated ETL/ELT data pipelines, improve data quality and monitoring, optimize Postgres and BigQuery schemas and queries, develop internal tooling, support data governance (HIPAA), participate in on-call rotation, and collaborate across engineering teams to scale data systems.

As a Senior Data Engineer, you will architect and maintain data pipelines and ETL processes for analytics, collaborating with multidisciplinary teams to deliver impactful data solutions.

The Data Engineer will design and maintain data pipelines, enhance the data warehouse, support machine learning applications, and collaborate with various teams to leverage data effectively.

The Data Architect & Strategy Lead will assess and optimize data operations, manage MongoDB performance, and implement modern data architecture and strategies, ensuring system reliability and performance.

The Sr. Data Engineer will build and maintain data pipelines, develop ETL processes, and optimize data infrastructure, collaborating across teams to ensure data reliability and performance.

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.

Implement and maintain ETL processes to ingest and transform hospital data into Meduit platforms. Build data models, ensure data integrity, document and track tasks in Jira, collaborate with cross-functional teams, support revenue-cycle data implementations, and mentor team members on best practices.

The Looker Data Engineer will build and optimize data models, develop reporting solutions, and support data-driven decisions using Looker and other technologies.

The job involves leveraging AWS and Snowflake for data engineering tasks within a technology-focused company, requiring US residency.

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.

Lead architecture and implementation of cloud-native data platforms on Google Cloud (BigQuery). Build unified batch/streaming pipelines, enforce IaC with Terraform, implement open table formats and governance (Dataplex/Data Catalog), automate data quality/lineage, partner with analytics and product teams, and mentor data engineers.

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 extraction, mapping, cleaning, transforming, and importing complex donor and fundraising data from legacy systems into Virtuous. Use SQL and dbt to design ETL transformations, collaborate on migration strategy, work with customers and internal teams, and solve complex data structure and relationship issues to align legacy data with Virtuous CRM best practices.

The Senior Data Engineer designs and maintains scalable data processing solutions, contributes to data ingestion, and collaborates across teams to optimize data workflows and pipelines.

Design, build, and maintain reliable data pipelines and models using SQL, Python, and Databricks/Spark. Translate multi-source schemas into scalable data models, enforce data hygiene and privacy, add tests/documentation/lineage, and collaborate with analytics, product, marketing, and vendor teams to deliver trustworthy data for personalization and marketing.

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.

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, build, and maintain data models, pipelines, and access layers to support care delivery, operations, and analytics. Ensure data quality, governance, and reliability while optimizing infrastructure and performance. Serve as a technical leader, review code, set engineering best practices, and collaborate cross-functionally to translate business needs into scalable data solutions.

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.