Top Remote Data Engineer Jobs in Washington, DC

As a Sr. Data Engineer at Lyra Health, you will build and scale core data infrastructure, design data warehouses, and create efficient data pipelines while collaborating across departments.

The Senior Data Engineer will design and maintain data pipelines, write production-grade Python and SQL code, and support AI initiatives while collaborating across teams.

The Sr. Data Engineer - Databricks designs and maintains scalable data solutions using Apache Spark and Databricks, ensuring data quality and performance for analytics and reporting.

Lead architecture, implementation, and optimization of scalable data platforms, ETL/ELT pipelines, and data governance. Ensure security and compliance, mentor junior engineers, drive CI/CD and IaC for data workflows, and collaborate with stakeholders to deliver actionable analytics and reporting.

Design, build, and maintain scalable, secure data architectures, models, and ETL pipelines. Integrate diverse data sources, optimize performance and data quality, implement governance, monitor production SLAs, and collaborate with data scientists, analysts, and product teams. Provide technical leadership, documentation, and training to improve engineering practices across the organization.

Lead a team of 5-6 data engineers to design and implement scalable data pipelines (Airflow), manage Snowflake data architecture, build real-time streaming solutions with Kafka/Spark Streaming, develop and integrate APIs, enforce code quality, and drive technical decisions and best practices.

The Senior Data Engineer will design and implement lakehouse architectures, optimize ClickHouse deployments, develop ETL/ELT pipelines, and create data models to support analytical and operational functions.

Lead design and execution of data migration, archival, and disaster recovery for a cloud-based court case management modernization. Own migration strategy, data lifecycle and retention, DR/HA design and drills, tooling evaluation, documentation, and coordination with Data Engineering, Governance, Security, and stakeholders to ensure auditable, resilient, and compliant migrations.

Design, build, and maintain production-scale data systems and web-scale datasets (Spark/Flink) to support personalization ML. Drive dataset/schema design, collaborate with algorithm teams, and improve distributed big-data processing for member experience.

Technical leader for Data Engineering responsible for designing, operating, and optimizing Snowflake-based data platforms, self-hosted orchestration (Prefect), dbt practices, AWS infrastructure, and data pipelines. Drive architecture, mentor engineers, partner cross-functionally, ensure observability and production-grade practices, and enable model-ready datasets and AI/LLM workflows.

Lead data engineering teams to design, build, and maintain scalable cloud-native data pipelines, data platforms, and data products using Snowflake, Databricks, Airflow, and modern architectures. Optimize ETL/ELT, SQL, and transformations for analytics, reporting, and AI use cases; ensure data quality, governance, observability, and stakeholder alignment. Produce documentation, runbooks, and present technical solutions to business and technical audiences.

Design, build, and optimize scalable batch and streaming data pipelines. Model and process structured and unstructured data, ensure production reliability and observability, apply ML techniques for insight extraction, and drive data strategy while adopting modern tooling and IaC practices.

Own and evolve the data platform: architect, build, and maintain data models, pipelines, and access layers. Ensure data quality, governance, and reliability; monitor and optimize infrastructure; provide technical leadership, code reviews, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver scalable data solutions for operations and analytics.

Build and maintain scalable data pipelines and Python automations for ingesting, processing, and enriching data. Integrate SaaS sources via APIs, use Databricks/PySpark/Delta Lake and AI tools to power lead generation, enrichment, deduplication, and entity resolution. Collaborate cross-functionally to translate business needs into automated, production-ready solutions.

The Senior Data Engineer will design and build scalable data platforms, handle automation for data operations, and ensure reliability and performance of data pipelines while collaborating with various teams.

Build end-to-end data and analytics features: ingest and model data, build transformations and pipelines, create client-facing dashboards and interfaces, and develop LLM-powered workflows to accelerate analysis and app development. Partner with stakeholders, perform exploratory analyses, and ensure data quality, observability, and maintainability while influencing data engineering strategy.

Design, build, and maintain scalable distributed data pipelines and a secure data lakehouse for streaming and batch processing to support real-time analytics, ML, and experimentation. Automate, test, and harden workflows, architect logical and physical data models, build ML model features, and collaborate with product, analytics, and data science teams to turn data into value.