Top Remote Data Engineer Jobs in Washington, DC

Designs, builds, and maintains scalable batch and streaming data pipelines, ETL/ELT workflows, data models, and Python transformations. Writes optimized SQL, monitors pipeline reliability, troubleshoots failures, implements data-quality validation, and supports security and governance practices. Collaborates with engineers, analysts, stakeholders, and clients to define data contracts, improve platforms, document lineage, and deliver reliable analytics data.

The Data Engineer will develop data pipelines, manage complex data sets, and ensure data reliability while collaborating within an Agile/Scrum team.

Designs and optimizes ETL pipelines supporting analytics, data science, and machine learning. Builds labeling, retraining, MLOps, model monitoring, and production inference workflows. Contributes to lakehouse architecture, data modeling, governance, lineage, and quality. Uses infrastructure as code and containerization to create reproducible environments, collaborates with data scientists and BI teams, participates in code reviews, and improves engineering practices.

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.

Designs and maintains healthcare data pipelines, ETL workflows, databases, schemas, and analytical frameworks. Analyzes claims and related healthcare data to identify trends and insights, while ensuring data quality and integrity. Creates reports, dashboards, and visualizations for nontechnical stakeholders. Collaborates with healthcare policy experts, analysts, and stakeholders to translate requirements into data solutions and improve infrastructure, processes, and analytics capabilities.

Build and scale the data backbone for HR, payroll, finance, and insurance products. Design data models across warehouses and data lakes, develop and optimize batch and real-time ETL/ELT pipelines, improve data quality and governance, tune SQL queries, address data integration gaps, and collaborate with engineering, BI, analytics, and business stakeholders.

Builds and maintains scalable data pipelines and cloud infrastructure supporting an AI biomedical research platform. Responsibilities include ingesting, harmonizing, validating, and documenting multimodal neurodegeneration datasets; managing cloud storage, compute, permissions, and costs; implementing de-identification and data governance workflows; supporting research data repositories and AI/ML teams; and maintaining data lineage, catalogs, and technical documentation. The role requires strong Python and SQL skills, software engineering discipline, cloud experience, and neurodegeneration research data expertise.

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.

Designs, develops, optimizes, and maintains enterprise data platforms, databases, ETL workflows, reporting solutions, and business intelligence systems. Leads technical design, SDLC processes, production troubleshooting, documentation, stakeholder collaboration, and automation efforts. Requires advanced Microsoft SQL Server, T-SQL, and SSIS expertise, plus experience with data warehousing, BI, dashboards, and Microsoft DevOps. Cloud data services, APIs, Microsoft BI tools, and Python or Java are preferred or advantageous.

Designs, develops, and optimizes enterprise data platforms, databases, ETL workflows, data integrations, reporting, and business intelligence solutions. Leads technical designs, automated process improvements, production troubleshooting, documentation, and dashboard development. Collaborates with stakeholders and vendors, supports scalability and cloud migration, and participates in an off-hours support rotation. Requires advanced SQL Server, SSIS, T-SQL, SDLC, and data engineering expertise.

Lead pre-sales technical engagements to design and optimize scalable cloud lakehouse data platforms (Snowflake/Databricks). Provide architecture reviews, ETL/ELT pipeline design, governance and AI-ready data foundations, support services sales, and translate technical tradeoffs into actionable recommendations for engineering and executive stakeholders.

Participate in an internship focused on database modeling and optimization, data analysis and consolidation, data quality, and data support. Work alongside experienced professionals on real-world projects while developing technical and professional skills. The program requires prior knowledge of data concepts, spreadsheets, databases, programming logic, and analytical problem-solving.

Build and maintain scalable batch and real-time data pipelines, model data to power analytics and ML, and operate distributed data systems. Collaborate with business, engineering, and data science teams to ensure data quality, documentation, and debugging while adopting new technologies and working in an ambiguous, fast-changing environment.

Build and maintain low-latency, highly available distributed data systems and services to deliver high-quality data for product, analytics, and ML. Partner with data scientists and product teams to design scalable, observable, multi-tenant data products using batch and real-time processing frameworks. Ensure 24x7 reliability, monitoring, and operational excellence while owning end-to-end delivery.

Design, build, and own large-scale batch and streaming data pipelines and core Ads data products. Collaborate with analytics, data science, and engineering teams to model, transform, govern, and deliver high-quality ad datasets for analysis, ML, and reporting while ensuring privacy compliance.

Build scalable, privacy-focused data frameworks and ETL pipelines using big-data technologies (Spark, Presto, Flink, Kafka, Hive). Ensure appropriate handling of personal data, support privacy and legal needs, partner cross-functionally, and lead system design while mentoring teammates.

Build and maintain scalable data pipelines and integrations using Databricks and Azure. Transform and model large structured and unstructured datasets to support reporting, analytics, and operational needs. Implement data quality, monitoring, and governance; troubleshoot pipeline performance; collaborate with stakeholders and mentor junior engineers.

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.

Design, build, and operate scalable cloud data pipelines and platforms (Azure preferred). Implement DevSecOps, CI/CD, automated testing, monitoring, performance tuning, and production readiness. Mentor engineers, drive operational excellence, and translate requirements into robust technical designs. Apply healthcare domain knowledge and collaborate in agile teams to deliver secure, reliable data products.

Lead design and implementation of scalable cloud data lakes, warehouses, and marts. Build ELT/ETL pipelines, apply Data Vault 2.0 and dimensional modeling, implement data quality, lineage, observability, and governance. Optimize Snowflake/Databricks/Synapse platforms, champion CI/CD and DataOps, mentor engineers, and enable AI/ML-ready data products through collaboration with architecture and product teams.

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.

Support building and maintaining ETL/ELT data pipelines and cloud data workflows. Work with senior engineers and cross-functional teams to implement, test, deploy, and document data processes. Continuously learn cloud technologies, SQL, and Python/PySpark, follow coding best practices, and contribute to process improvements in an Agile environment.

Design, build, and maintain scalable data pipelines and ETL/ELT frameworks using Python and PySpark. Develop reusable components, microservices, and cloud-based data solutions on AWS and Snowflake. Ensure code quality via reviews, CI/CD, logging, and best practices while collaborating with stakeholders to solve data problems.

Maintain and monitor data pipelines that aggregate healthcare claims for the Cost Roll process. Validate and reconcile claim and provider demographic data, troubleshoot data issues, perform data quality checks, and collaborate with stakeholders to ensure reliable downstream financial and clinical systems.

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.