Top Remote Data Engineer Jobs in Washington, DC

Own and evolve the data infrastructure powering identity and fraud products. Build and operate scalable ETL/ELT pipelines, ensure data quality and observability, optimize storage and access, support product squads, respond to production incidents, mentor engineers, and drive data platform innovation.

Lead the Data Platform Engineering team owning ETL/reverse-ETL pipelines, replication, and production datastores. Define architecture, roadmap, standards (IaC, observability, schema contracts), mentor engineers, drive incident response and durable fixes, and partner on cross-team technical decisions and operational reliability for data correctness, completeness, and timeliness.

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

Design and build a medallion architecture using dbt and Microsoft Fabric, create and maintain data ingestion pipelines, and implement governance, lineage, documentation, and quality checks to support self-serve analytics while collaborating with cross-functional teams.

Own and optimize data infrastructure and ETL/ELT pipelines using SSIS and Microsoft Fabric. Build and maintain SQL Server data warehouse staging, transformations, and lakehouse ingestion. Implement CI/CD, version control with GitHub, monitor pipeline health, troubleshoot data issues, document data flows, and translate stakeholder requirements into data engineering solutions that support BI reporting.

The Data Engineer will design and maintain data pipelines, optimize cloud data warehouses, and collaborate with analytics teams while mentoring junior staff.

The Senior Data Engineer will design and implement scalable data models in BigQuery using dbt for analytics and reporting, ensuring data governance and optimal performance.

Build and maintain production-grade data pipelines and ELT processes using Python, SQL, Airflow, and dbt within AWS. Design optimized schemas in PostgreSQL and Redshift, leverage AI/LLMs to improve development, automation, testing, and data quality, and scale infrastructure for large healthcare datasets.

Design, develop, and manage data infrastructure for internal and client projects, focusing on large-scale data pipelines, APIs, and cloud deployments.

Design, build, and maintain data warehouse infrastructure, semantic/dimensional models, metrics layer, and BI dashboards (Sigma, Power BI, Databricks). Build secure ELT pipelines, enforce governance and row-level security (Entra ID), enable self-service analytics and AI/ML integrations, triage BI issues, train stakeholders, and collaborate in Agile to deliver reliable, performant reporting and curated data products.

Build and maintain ETL/ELT data pipelines and storage for batch and real-time use. Partner with product and engineering to define requirements, ensure data quality, monitor pipeline health, integrate cloud data warehouses/lakes, optimize SQL/Python transformations, and document data flows and architecture.

Design, develop, and maintain Customer Data Platform solutions and data pipelines to create unified customer profiles, manage identity resolution, enable audience segmentation and activation, ensure data quality and governance, and support integrations with marketing, CRM, and cloud data systems.

The Snowflake Data Engineer will work on data cleansing and harmonization, moving from legacy systems to SAP S4, focusing on ETL/ELT development and view creation.

This role involves designing, building, and maintaining data pipelines on Snowflake. Responsibilities include ensuring data quality and collaborating with stakeholders to deliver solutions.

The AWS Data Engineer will work on a data cleansing and harmonization project, focusing on AWS ETL design and development using various AWS services.

The Snowflake Data Engineer will design, build, and maintain data pipelines on Snowflake, optimizing performance and ensuring data quality while collaborating with stakeholders.

The Snowflake Data Engineer and Product Owner will manage the Snowflake data analytics project, collaborating with stakeholders, leading Agile practices, and ensuring quality deliverables through effective team coordination and backlog management.

As a Data Engineer, you will develop solutions for customer-centric technology, ensuring platform integration and managing data architecture. Responsibilities include building data processes, maintaining data integrity, and collaborating cross-functionally to meet business challenges.

Designs and delivers a global analytics platform supporting reporting, visualizations, self-service analytics, and embedded data products. Responsibilities include data collection and processing, semantic modeling, warehouse and pipeline development, query optimization, governance, analytics enablement, and stakeholder collaboration. The role provides actionable insights from complex travel data and builds integrated analytics applications using cloud platforms and business intelligence tools.

Designs and maintains Snowflake-based cloud data pipelines and lake architectures for asset-based finance and mortgage servicing analytics. Leads legacy-system migrations, ETL/ELT development, data validation, reconciliation, and financial integrity controls. Translates business requirements into Jira epics and user stories, supports project planning, testing, cutover, and go-live readiness, and coordinates with business, finance, operations, and technical stakeholders.

Design and scale Zip’s enterprise data and AI platform across batch, streaming, structured, and unstructured workloads. Build reliable pipelines, AI-ready data products, semantic models, vector and hybrid search, and RAG capabilities. Establish standards for modeling, testing, governance, security, observability, and automation. Partner with engineering, data science, product, and business teams while mentoring engineers and influencing platform architecture.

Design and build modern GCP lakehouse architectures, including Python and Spark pipelines, BigQuery ingestion, Kafka CDC, Delta Lake and Iceberg UniForm integrations, Delta Sharing endpoints, Snowflake and Databricks connectivity, data lineage, governed access controls, and semantic-layer alignment. Collaborate cross-functionally, troubleshoot full-stack issues, and deliver reusable data-sharing adapters and end-to-end data features.

Build and lead complex data integration projects from client onboarding through ongoing platform usage. Analyze and resolve data discrepancies, troubleshoot SIS and SSO integrations, develop internal Retool applications, perform code reviews, prioritize backlogs, manage projects, and mentor teammates. The role requires advanced SQL, development expertise, technical leadership, and collaboration with internal stakeholders, with Ruby on Rails, AWS, Git, and K-12 education experience preferred or desired.

Maintain and monitor Snowflake data warehouse and ingestion pipelines. Troubleshoot file/load/data quality issues, operate SFTP/drop-zone/file automation, support scheduled loads, build dbt models and tables, document runbooks, and serve as backup for core warehouse operations while collaborating with engineering and IT.

Leads enterprise data engineering initiatives by designing and optimizing data pipelines, data lakes, warehouses, and analytics infrastructure. Uses Snowflake, Informatica, SQL, and related technologies to integrate diverse data sources, improve data quality, secure PII, and support analytics and data science teams. Establishes governance, monitoring, scalability, performance, and cost-efficiency practices while mentoring teammates and partnering with stakeholders on complex technical solutions.