Top Remote Data Engineer Jobs in Washington, DC

Architect, build, and operate low-latency market data systems, including feed handlers, normalization, distribution, and exchange connectivity. Design high-throughput infrastructure for real-time trading data, improve reliability and performance, participate in observability, on-call, and incident response, and deliver well-tested features end to end. Partner with engineering, product, and cross-functional stakeholders while leading a lean, high-impact team.

Design and deliver modern data platforms, scalable and secure ingestion and transformation pipelines, durable data models, streaming systems, and reporting layers. Partner directly with clients and business stakeholders to translate requirements into architecture, explain tradeoffs, and own delivery outcomes. The role includes production implementation across cloud data platforms, orchestration, governance, real-time technologies, and analytics or AI data consumption.

Build Sailor Health’s foundational data platform from scratch. Responsibilities include developing Snowflake and dbt pipelines integrating EHR, CRM, and communications data; creating data-powered web applications; automating clinical and billing workflows with Python; analyzing therapy transcripts and patient data using AI and machine learning; tracking clinical outcomes; and designing scalable data architectures in collaboration with clinicians, engineers, founders, and other teams.

Own and evolve Worldly’s production data lake, Postgres warehouse, CDC and streaming pipelines, dbt transformations, orchestration, BI access controls, and graph integrations. Maintain reliable, governed analytics infrastructure using Iceberg, Trino, Dagster, Terraform, and AWS. Support production generative AI workflows involving embeddings, similarity search, extraction, and classification. Responsibilities include data quality, monitoring, security, incident response, disaster recovery, schema governance, and collaboration with data science and analytics stakeholders.

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.

Design, build, and operate large-scale data platforms and Spark/PySpark pipelines. Enable data integration, modeling, quality, and observability. Build MCP servers and AI-augmented tooling, mentor engineers, and lead cross-functional projects to deliver reliable data products.

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.

Architect and maintain NetBrain’s first cloud data warehouse, ELT pipelines, transformation layer, semantic models, and BI foundation. Own data quality, governance, lineage, access controls, and curated models supporting product usage, customer adoption, account health, and go-to-market reporting. Partner with stakeholders to establish reliable metrics and a standardized source of truth, while supporting AI-assisted analytics and natural-language reporting use cases.

Design, build, and own scalable data pipelines and warehousing architecture from ingestion through analytics and incentive payouts. Lead data platform architecture, dbt modeling, data quality, lineage, observability, performance, and cost management. Partner with engineers and analysts on telematics accuracy and driver incentive reporting. Use AI coding tools daily to develop and review pipelines, SQL, and data models.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.