Top Remote Data Engineer Jobs in Wilmington, NC

Leads the design, development, and optimization of scalable data pipelines and analytics platforms. Builds ETL/ELT workflows using Databricks and Spark, integrates and transforms source data into curated models, manages SQL Server data, and maintains documentation and lineage. Collaborates with product, analytics, and engineering teams to deliver reliable data solutions. Applies responsible AI practices and delivers projects independently within established timelines.

Architects and leads enterprise data engineering platforms, including scalable ETL/ELT pipelines, streaming frameworks, cloud infrastructure, data warehouses, and AI/ML data systems. Establishes engineering standards, governance, monitoring, data quality, security, and schema management practices. Designs AI agents using LLMs, partners across business and infrastructure teams, and makes high-impact architectural decisions for reliable, secure, multi-region data environments.

Administer and enhance Edmunds’ Databricks data platform and AWS infrastructure. Build and maintain ETL pipelines, infrastructure-as-code tooling using Terraform or CDK, and operational dashboards, alerts, and reports. Collaborate with business, engineering, analytics, security, and infrastructure teams to support data platform users and AI solutions. Evaluate new technologies, troubleshoot platform issues, and improve operational, cost, and security visibility.

Own and evolve UJET’s data platform, including MySQL CDC replication to BigQuery, dbt transformations, Terraform infrastructure, pipelines, data quality, observability, and Looker models. Build reliable, analytics-ready datasets and trusted metrics for internal and customer-facing reporting. Partner with Analytics, Finance, Product, and Engineering to deliver scalable data solutions, improve platform reliability, optimize performance and costs, and establish development standards and guardrails.

Designs, builds, tests, and maintains scalable data infrastructure and ETL/ELT pipelines for mission partners. Uses AWS Glue, Glue Catalog, and Step Functions to integrate, migrate, transform, and validate data. Develops data models, schemas, queries, and production-ready datasets while collaborating with analytics and business teams. The role may also support AI/ML pipelines, data governance, DevOps workflows, Databricks, and real-time streaming architectures.

Develop and maintain Tableau dashboards, data visualizations, analytics solutions, and reporting tools. Clean and transform data using Databricks, SQL, and Python; identify workflow automation opportunities; and partner with stakeholders to deliver analytics and AI use cases. The role also involves client presentations, requirements gathering, business development support, and federal government consulting.

Own the architecture and operation of 9amHealth’s data platform, including Python and SQL ETL/ELT pipelines, AWS infrastructure, Redshift data models, semantic layers, governance, quality, monitoring, and reliability. Establish technical standards, optimize performance and costs, support AI/ML initiatives, build integrations, and mentor data team members. Partner with business and clinical stakeholders to deliver reliable data products and translate complex questions into actionable analytics.

Own and evolve WorkOS’s internal data platform, including ingestion, orchestration, Snowflake, dbt models, data governance, reverse ETL, semantic views, and AI-enabled data workflows. Ensure pipeline reliability, freshness, security, and scalability while partnering with Product, Finance, RevOps, GTM, Engineering, and Security. Build monitoring, runbooks, CI/CD gates, access controls, masking policies, and infrastructure automation across AWS and Kubernetes.

Build and scale secure data lakehouse and warehouse infrastructure supporting analytics, machine learning, clinical AI performance monitoring, and self-service insights. Develop scalable data pipelines, models, orchestration, quality controls, and LLM-enabled analytics tools using heterogeneous clinical and EHR data. Collaborate with engineering, data science, clinical, product, and client success teams to establish trustworthy metrics and technical solutions.

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.

Design, build, and operate production data pipelines using Python, Spark SQL, and Airflow. Canonicalize healthcare and customer data into trusted internal models, optimize distributed processing, enforce schemas, and implement quality checks and observability. Support customer onboarding, streaming pipelines, troubleshooting, on-call operations, and platform best practices while collaborating with product, analytics, engineering, data science, and customer teams.

Own end-to-end client data migrations: reverse-engineer legacy ETL, design and build Airflow DAGs and Spark jobs, validate and reconcile data at scale, document architecture and decisions, and coordinate cross-functional teams through go-live and hypercare.

Own the analytics data layer by translating stakeholder needs into certified dimensional models, governed metrics, semantic layers, dashboards, and reports. Build with dbt, SQL, Databricks, Power BI, and Airflow while ensuring data quality, observability, reconciliation, documentation, and dependable orchestration. Partner closely with finance, operations, and client-facing teams, automate recurring workflows, and use AI-assisted engineering practices in a fully remote environment.

Own the technical design and operation of Palmetto’s governed data platform. Build trusted data products, semantic models, ingestion and transformation pipelines, secure access interfaces, and agent-ready data services. Establish governance, masking, authorization, observability, CI/CD, and audit readiness. Partner with finance, operations, product, and engineering teams while mentoring engineers and setting cross-team technical direction.

Designs and maintains automation for enterprise data governance, including APIs, ETL pipelines, metadata management, data profiling, validation, quality workflows, and data integrations. Develops reliable scheduled and event-driven solutions with monitoring, logging, retry logic, testing, CI/CD, and exception handling. Collaborates with stakeholders on governance roadmaps, tool requirements, and scalable data management improvements.

Designs, builds, and maintains Databricks data pipelines and analytics solutions using SQL and Python. Collaborates with development and IT teams, applies DevOps and CI/CD practices, supports Power BI dashboards, and contributes to data modeling, management, and governance. The role requires extensive Databricks and cloud-platform experience, strong communication skills, fluent English, and at least five years of relevant experience.

Build scalable data ingestion, transformation, and loading infrastructure using Spark, SQL, AWS, and Databricks. Develop entity resolution systems, CI/CD pipelines, anomaly detection, and high-quality data products. Design scalable processing and storage patterns, orchestration workflows, and data warehousing solutions while collaborating remotely and documenting technical designs.

Build and maintain scalable, fault-tolerant data pipelines, warehouses, and analytics solutions. Transform complex structured and semi-structured data, automate delivery processes, improve data quality and reliability, and support enterprise data strategies. Collaborate with analysts, data scientists, actuaries, and business teams to translate requirements into solutions. Research new technologies, troubleshoot issues, maintain version-controlled code, and mentor data engineering team members.

Designs and maintains scalable data models, semantic layers, ETL/ELT workflows, data-quality frameworks, and governed analytics products for commercial operations. Owns data solutions from requirements through deployment, monitoring, documentation, and support. Partners with technical and business stakeholders to deliver trusted reporting, dashboards, scorecards, productivity measurements, and AI-enabled decision support.

Designs, develops, maintains, and optimizes complex data systems, SQL databases, ETL processes, data warehouses, reports, and .NET applications supporting pharmacy benefit management. Responsibilities include database performance tuning, troubleshooting pharmacy claims processes, developing scalable solutions, documenting technical designs, participating in Agile ceremonies, collaborating with stakeholders, mentoring teammates, and ensuring healthcare data compliance.

Lead architecture, development, and optimization of a cloud-native data platform. Design high-volume batch and streaming pipelines, optimize data processing across AWS, Snowflake, Redshift, and Athena, and implement Iceberg-based data management. Establish security, privacy, observability, and DataOps practices while mentoring engineers, guiding technical direction, collaborating with data science teams, and delivering scalable petabyte-level data infrastructure.

Design, build, and maintain scalable big data pipelines, architectures, distributed databases, and storage systems. Use Python and frameworks such as Hadoop, Spark, or Flink for data integration, transformation, and processing. Ensure system performance, availability, security, governance, and data quality while collaborating with cross-functional teams and documenting technical solutions.

Design, build, deploy, and maintain AWS-based data and AI/ML infrastructure for enterprise agentic AI platforms. Develop data lake pipelines, observability systems, agent-enablement tooling, and production MLOps/LLMOps capabilities. Own features end-to-end, contribute to architecture and design decisions, optimize reliability, scalability, security, and cost, and collaborate with AWS Professional Services, client teams, and junior engineers.

Designs and productionizes hybrid knowledge graph solutions for healthcare and clinical data using LPG and RDF technologies. Builds FHIR transformation and ingestion pipelines, implements ontology mappings, entity linking, identifiers, provenance, validation, and graph queries with Cypher or SPARQL. Collaborates with ontology, terminology, FHIR, clinical, and data engineering teams, while contributing to architecture reviews, code reviews, testing, and engineering best practices.

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.