Top Remote Data Engineer Jobs in Houston, TX

Build and operate production data pipelines and dimensional models using Spark, SparkSQL, and cloud lakehouse technologies. Own pipelines from requirements through deployment, monitoring, and iteration; improve data quality, lineage, reliability, and cost efficiency. Partner with data scientists, analysts, product managers, and engineers to support datamarts, KPIs, reporting, and analysis. Participate in business-hours on-call rotations and improve runbooks and alerting.

Administer and enhance Edmunds’ Databricks data platform and AWS infrastructure. Build and maintain ETL pipelines, infrastructure-as-code tooling using Terraform or CDK, and operational dashboards, alerts, and reports. Collaborate with business, engineering, analytics, security, and infrastructure teams to support data platform users and AI solutions. Evaluate new technologies, troubleshoot platform issues, and improve operational, cost, and security visibility.

Define and govern enterprise-scale data architecture across batch, streaming, warehouse, lakehouse, transactional, and AI use cases. Establish standards for data quality, lineage, access, cataloging, governance, observability, and SLAs. Architect AI-enabled workflows, resolve complex architecture issues, influence roadmaps, and mentor engineers through hands-on technical leadership. The role requires 15+ years of software, data engineering, or architecture experience and expertise in large-scale data platforms and modeling.

Designs and maintains SAP BW data models, pipelines, ETL processes, and analytics integrations. Leads migration of SAP BW 7.x assets to SAP Business Data Cloud using SAP Datasphere and SAP Analytics Cloud, converts legacy objects into CDS-based semantic models, optimizes data flows, supports reporting migration, and ensures data quality, governance, lineage, and operational reliability across SAP and non-SAP environments.

Build and maintain production ETL/ELT pipelines, data models, and curated datasets for analytics and AI applications. Ingest data from databases, APIs, SaaS tools, and event streams; implement quality checks, monitoring, documentation, governance, and access controls. Collaborate with analysts, data scientists, and ML engineers on reporting, feature datasets, AI search, and RAG applications. Optimize query performance and pipeline costs while using Git, code reviews, and CI/CD for safe releases.

Build and operate event-driven data pipelines processing healthcare claims data for fraud, waste, and abuse detection. Operationalize validated fraud signals, maintain alert delivery and partner dashboards, monitor pipeline reliability, and collaborate with data architects, scientists, and investigative teams. The role requires production-scale pipeline engineering using AWS, Snowflake, Python, and SQL in a fully remote environment.

Own and evolve UJET’s data platform, including MySQL CDC replication to BigQuery, dbt transformations, Terraform infrastructure, pipelines, data quality, observability, and Looker models. Build reliable, analytics-ready datasets and trusted metrics for internal and customer-facing reporting. Partner with Analytics, Finance, Product, and Engineering to deliver scalable data solutions, improve platform reliability, optimize performance and costs, and establish development standards and guardrails.

Designs and maintains end-to-end data solutions, including ETL/ELT pipelines, BigQuery platforms, APIs, semantic data layers, and data catalogs. Builds data quality monitoring, governance, security, and access controls while collaborating with analytics, product, engineering, and business teams. Requires strong Python, Kotlin, Java, SQL, API development, cloud data engineering, testing, and reliability experience.

Build and maintain production data pipelines and foundational datasets for Market Intelligence. Automate survey ingestion, cleaning, joining, scheduling, monitoring, and reporting-layer integration. Develop repeatable queries, improve data quality practices, document assumptions, support reproducible outputs, and translate research needs into technical solutions. The role requires close collaboration with technical and nontechnical stakeholders and ownership of reliable data infrastructure.

Build and operate platform infrastructure for product analytics, data processing, and ML systems. Responsibilities include event tracking pipelines, Databricks Bronze-to-Gold lakehouse layers, schema evolution, data contracts, CI validation, backfills, monitoring, feature computation, model pipelines, lineage, PHI policy enforcement, and self-service developer tooling. The role focuses on making data and ML changes safe, observable, reproducible, and accessible to engineers and subject-matter experts.

Design, build, and scale data pipelines, ETL workflows, analytics infrastructure, and machine-learning data systems. Ensure data quality, security, monitoring, and reliability while optimizing storage and processing performance. Collaborate with engineering, product, and analytics teams on data requirements, modeling, schemas, and scalable infrastructure. The role also establishes data engineering best practices and supports a data-driven culture.

Own and evolve WorkOS’s internal data platform, including ingestion, orchestration, Snowflake, dbt models, data governance, reverse ETL, semantic views, and AI-enabled data workflows. Ensure pipeline reliability, freshness, security, and scalability while partnering with Product, Finance, RevOps, GTM, Engineering, and Security. Build monitoring, runbooks, CI/CD gates, access controls, masking policies, and infrastructure automation across AWS and Kubernetes.

Design, build, and maintain scalable data pipelines, data lakes, and databases; ingest and map customer financial datasets; monitor pipeline reliability; translate business requirements into data flows and analytical insights to ensure high-quality, usable data.

Build and maintain data pipelines, governance documentation, and data architectures supporting Department of State systems. Collect, clean, transform, integrate, validate, and analyze data from multiple sources using Palantir Foundry and relational databases. Collaborate with nontechnical stakeholders to gather requirements, identify data-quality issues, develop reporting tools and visualizations, and recommend improvements supporting data-driven decisions.

Designs and builds cloud-based, data-centric applications supporting clinical and operational healthcare processes. Develops data pipelines, transformations, enrichment processes, provisioning layers, and user interfaces. Collaborates with Product, Platform, and Architecture teams using modern software development practices, source control, documentation, and regular delivery methods.

Designs, builds, tests, deploys, and maintains secure ETL/ELT pipelines for public health data. Integrates Power Platform, Azure services, APIs, SQL Server, CDC/NIOSH systems, and approved file-transfer platforms. Develops batch, event-driven, and near-real-time data workflows supporting intake, validation, reporting, analytics, notifications, and results delivery while meeting FISMA Moderate, federal privacy, Agile, and DevSecOps requirements.

Lead the design and development of Azure-based big data solutions, including batch and real-time ETL/ELT pipelines, data architecture, ingestion, curation, warehousing, and storage. Build solutions using Azure Data Factory, Databricks, Synapse, Spark, Python, SQL, and related Azure services. Support Salesforce migration and integration while applying strong RDBMS, data management, and big data design expertise.

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.

The Data Engineer will develop and maintain data pipelines, perform data extraction and transformation, and support data analytics across the enterprise.

Lead the architecture and development of Vercel’s next-generation data platform, supporting batch and real-time integrations, analytics, data warehousing, and AI/ML workloads. Design scalable systems using Kafka, ClickHouse, Tinybird, and Snowflake; establish data governance and security standards; guide architectural decisions and roadmaps; collaborate with engineering, product, security, compliance, and leadership teams; write production code; and mentor engineers.

Build and maintain scalable ETL/ELT pipelines, integrate travel and customer data from internal and external systems, develop cloud data warehouse models, implement data quality monitoring, support real-time streaming, and ensure data privacy and regulatory compliance. Collaborate with analysts, data scientists, and product teams to deliver reliable datasets for personalization, forecasting, pricing, route optimization, and customer experience initiatives.

Build and maintain Google Cloud data pipelines and ETL/ELT processes supporting GenAI and RAG solutions. Classify and govern sensitive data using Dataplex and Cloud DLP, enforce access controls, assess AI readiness, and design reusable schemas and data models. Collaborate with engineering, delivery, and client teams to integrate legacy systems, monitor pipeline reliability, conduct data quality testing, document data flows, and proactively identify compliance and delivery risks.

Design, build, and maintain scalable data pipelines, data models, and analytics solutions using Microsoft Fabric and Azure. Develop Lakehouse and Warehouse architectures, Fabric Notebooks with PySpark and Spark SQL, ETL/ELT workflows, and Power BI semantic models. Optimize performance, ensure data quality, security, governance, and regulatory compliance, and collaborate with analysts, data scientists, and business stakeholders to support business intelligence and advanced analytics.

Build and maintain Databricks data pipelines across bronze, silver, and gold layers. Ingest APIs, logs, billing exports, and reference data; implement attribution logic, governance, data quality monitoring, and cost optimization. Manage Unity Catalog permissions, lineage, refresh schedules, incremental processing, and CI/CD workflows while supporting multi-cloud storage and high-volume caller-identity data.

Build and maintain ETL/ELT pipelines, ingest and transform structured and unstructured data, integrate APIs and external sources, improve data quality and monitoring, support dashboards and ML pipelines, optimize warehouse and cloud performance, and contribute to data governance and documentation.