Top Remote Data Engineer Jobs in Sacramento, CA

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.

Manage, design, and optimize data activities for federal IAM systems. Develop data models, file layouts, source-to-target mappings, data dictionaries, integrations, ETL processes, and analytics support for identity analysis and fraud detection. Administer and tune databases, including configuration, backups, monitoring, capacity planning, and performance optimization. Support secure handling of identity and PII data, network-related data flows, documentation, token management processes, and collaboration across development, security, and operations teams.

Designs, builds, and operates scalable enterprise data platforms supporting ingestion, processing, storage, governance, analytics, and AI/ML. Responsibilities include developing batch and real-time pipelines, lakehouse and warehouse architectures, orchestration, infrastructure automation, CI/CD, monitoring, security, cost optimization, and observability. The role partners with data, ML, DevOps, security, and application teams, troubleshoots complex platform issues, establishes reusable engineering standards, contributes to architecture strategy, and mentors engineers.

Build and extend automated enterprise data governance and quality frameworks. Define measurable trust rules, data contracts, validation and certification workflows, metadata, lineage, tagging, and trust scoring across a cloud data platform. Integrate governance checks into developer workflows and Collibra, coach engineering and product teams, and establish organization-wide data trust standards. The role requires strong SQL, BigQuery or comparable warehouse experience, and expertise with data quality or observability tools.

Build and maintain production-grade dbt data models and pipelines across ingestion, transformation, and visualization. Develop reliable datasets supporting reporting, analysis, finance, revenue recognition, and company decision-making. Collaborate with Finance, Engineering, Sales, Product, and Marketing to understand data needs, improve manual workflows, validate data accuracy, and create scalable solutions using modern data tools.

Own end-to-end data platform architecture across ingestion, transformation, modeling, and serving. Improve warehouse efficiency, access control, reliability, observability, orchestration, CI/CD, and developer experience. Lead cross-functional technical initiatives, build monitoring and alerting, mentor engineers, guide architectural decisions, and develop AI-powered data tooling. The role requires strong SQL and Python skills, production experience with Airflow, BigQuery, and containerized infrastructure, plus architectural ownership and stakeholder communication.

Design, build, and maintain scalable ETL/ELT data pipelines on Databricks and AWS S3; manage large geospatial and temporal datasets; productionize ML models; implement data validation, testing, and monitoring; optimize storage and processing; document workflows; collaborate cross-functionally.

The DMS Data Engineer is responsible for analyzing raw data, building data systems and pipelines, conducting complex data analyses, and collaborating on projects to enhance data quality and reliability.

Design, build, maintain, and optimize Spark and Scala ETL/ELT pipelines on AWS for terabyte- and petabyte-scale datasets. Work across S3, Snowflake, Kafka, and monitoring systems, resolve production data-quality and performance issues, write automated tests, participate in architecture and code reviews, and support on-call operations. Use generative AI to improve pipeline development, monitoring, and engineering productivity.

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 maintain ETL pipelines, databases, and data models to process healthcare claims and related data. Ensure data quality, analyze claims data for trends, and produce reports and visualizations for nontechnical stakeholders. Collaborate with policy and analytics teams to translate requirements into data solutions and improve data infrastructure and analytics capabilities.

Design and implement end-to-end data solutions on Microsoft Fabric and Azure for insurance datasets. Build ingestion pipelines (batch, streaming, API), Lakehouse architectures, and data models. Enforce governance, security, compliance, and cost/performance optimizations while guiding engineers and stakeholders on architectural best practices.

Develop and maintain large-scale, cloud-native data services and distributed pipelines for multi-tenant healthcare systems. Responsibilities include data modeling, database component development, SQL programming, performance tuning, testing, deployment, code reviews, proof-of-concepts, and full software development lifecycle ownership. Collaborate with global engineering teams, evaluate technologies, apply security and operational requirements, and use AI tools to accelerate development.

Leads data engineering strategy and mentors an analytics engineering team. Designs scalable ELT pipelines, warehouse integrations, data models, API ingestion workflows, and data quality frameworks using cloud and database technologies. Conducts exploratory analysis, supports dashboards and analytical solutions, monitors warehouse performance and costs, and ensures data governance, security, and compliance. Collaborates with data scientists, analysts, engineers, and business stakeholders to deliver healthcare analytics solutions.

Own SQL and dbt-based data modeling and data quality for clinical and claims datasets. Author and refactor dbt models/tests, triage DQ alerts, design monitors, optimize SQL performance, and collaborate with Data Engineering and stakeholders to ensure trusted production datasets.

The job involves building responsive web dashboards, advanced data visualizations, and analytics tools for unmanned aircraft systems, requiring a deep understanding of UI/UX design and data presentation.

Lead the data engineering strategy and architecture for distributed pharmaceutical data systems. Design and scale pipelines, APIs, and data platforms while ensuring reliability, governance, quality, and PII/PHI protection. Drive technical decisions, improve developer efficiency, deliver business impact, influence cross-functional roadmaps, mentor engineers, communicate with executives, and promote organizational adoption of new technologies and processes.

Develop business intelligence and analytics solutions using financial, operational, RF, and video performance data. Build scalable data models, dashboards, reports, automation workflows, and ETL/ELT processes using Power BI, Tableau, DataMiner, and Qligent. Analyze trends and anomalies, monitor satellite and video delivery performance, translate business requirements into actionable insights, and collaborate with enterprise stakeholders in a fully remote consulting role.

Design, build, and maintain scalable data pipelines, lakes, and infrastructure using Databricks, Spark, Python, and AWS. Collaborate with ML engineers, data scientists, and analysts to deliver data products, ensure data quality and governance, implement DevOps/SDLC practices, mentor junior engineers, and evaluate new data technologies.

Design, build, modernize, and maintain operational and analytical data capabilities for Wealthscape Reporting, Analytics and Insights. Perform solution design, data analysis, ETL development, and production rollouts using Snowflake, AWS, cloud databases, and CI/CD pipelines. Collaborate across teams in a fast-paced financial services environment.

Design, build, and maintain operational and analytical data platform capabilities using Java Spring Batch, Python, AWS, Oracle, and Snowflake. Deliver end-to-end development, production rollout, and support; improve financial product data quality, modeling, and SQL performance; collaborate with business partners and squads.

Build and maintain production data pipelines and models using SQLMesh, BigQuery, and Python. Improve observability, reliability, and performance; support finance and revenue pipelines; participate in on-call rotation and own features end-to-end.

The Principal Data Engineer will lead data architecture initiatives, design scalable data systems, and oversee data standards across teams while ensuring high-quality data infrastructure and guiding engineering teams.

Build and operate ingestion and transformation pipelines to turn messy insurance data into clean datasets. Design bronze/silver/fact layers, model and tune Postgres and analytical stores, define KPIs and reconciliation checks, orchestrate observable data jobs, and ensure end-to-end data quality for analytics and AI products.

Lead architecture, systems, and roadmap for Coinbase's Compliance Reporting Data Platform. Design and build production-grade data models, pipelines, quality frameworks, validations, and certification processes. Establish data contracts, monitoring, reconciliation, and audit-ready processes. Partner with engineering and compliance stakeholders, respond to regulatory exams, and mentor engineers while shaping standards and documentation.