Top Senior Data Engineer Jobs in Richmond, VA

Designs, builds, and operates scalable, resilient cloud data platforms and pipelines. Leads large-scale data initiatives, makes architectural decisions, evaluates technologies such as Snowflake and Databricks, and develops solutions using distributed data systems, relational and NoSQL databases, and cloud platforms. Collaborates with product and engineering teams, establishes reusable design patterns, communicates technical concepts, and mentors data engineers, analysts, and scientists.

Designs, builds, and operates scalable cloud data pipelines, platforms, and applications. Responsibilities include data modeling, distributed data processing, relational and NoSQL database development, architecture decisions, observability, streaming pipelines, and data warehousing. The role leads large-scale data initiatives, evaluates technologies such as Snowflake and Databricks, collaborates with product and engineering teams, communicates technical concepts, and mentors data engineers.

Architects, deploys, and operates scalable data platform infrastructure supporting analytics. Responsibilities include administering Airflow and Superset, managing Terraform infrastructure, building CI/CD pipelines, implementing security and compliance controls, developing dbt data models, cataloging assets in OpenMetadata, automating with Python, and mentoring engineers. The role requires extensive infrastructure and data engineering experience, cloud expertise, container orchestration, and eligibility for CJIS clearance.

Design, build, and operate scalable cloud data pipelines, platforms, and applications using distributed data technologies. Lead transformative data initiatives, make architectural decisions, evaluate platforms such as Snowflake and Databricks, and ensure reliability and maintainability. Collaborate with product managers, engineers, analysts, and data scientists while mentoring peers and communicating technical outcomes to stakeholders. Apply data modeling, relational and NoSQL databases, machine learning-enabled solutions, and modern cloud architectures to support risk management products.

Designs and delivers large-scale, governed data pipelines and infrastructure across the full data lifecycle. Responsibilities include coding in Python and SQL, optimizing Airflow, dbt, AWS, Kafka, and Iceberg/Parquet workflows, implementing data quality and observability, contributing to architecture and tool evaluations, mentoring engineers, collaborating with stakeholders, and participating in on-call support.

Design, build, and operate scalable cloud data platforms, pipelines, and applications. Lead architectural decisions, establish reusable engineering patterns, evaluate technologies such as Snowflake and Databricks, and deliver distributed, real-time, and warehouse solutions. Collaborate with product, engineering, analytics, and data science teams while mentoring engineers and communicating technical outcomes to stakeholders.

Build and architect scalable cloud data solutions, pipelines, platforms, and data products. Lead large-scale data initiatives, make architecture and platform decisions, ensure performance and operational efficiency, and apply modern technologies such as Python, Spark, Databricks, and Snowflake. Collaborate with Agile teams, product managers, software engineers, analysts, and data scientists while mentoring engineers and communicating technical concepts to stakeholders.

Maintains and monitors Azure Databricks data pipelines, troubleshoots data issues, collaborates with stakeholders on data requirements, documents processes, performs backups and disaster recovery drills, and supports data access and usage. The role requires extensive data engineering experience, Azure expertise, incident management knowledge, and strong problem-solving skills.

Lead the reverse-engineering and migration of legacy ETL pipelines from SAP BusinessObjects Data Services and JD Edwards into dbt and Databricks architectures. Build automated data validation, maintain SQL Server write-back mechanisms, collaborate with client stakeholders, and lead and mentor a small engineering team. The role requires hands-on expertise in SQL, Python, Spark, orchestration, cloud platforms, and legacy ERP and ETL migrations.

Leads large-scale data engineering initiatives for Risk Tech, designing and delivering scalable cloud data platforms, pipelines, and applications. Responsibilities include architecture, data modeling, distributed processing, cloud warehousing, AI-enabled risk solutions, platform evaluation, operational resilience, and technical mentoring. The role collaborates with product managers, software engineers, analysts, and data scientists while independently driving architectural decisions and communicating technical outcomes to stakeholders.

Designs and maintains secure, scalable Microsoft Fabric data pipelines, Lakehouses, warehouses, and infrastructure. Implements encryption, access controls, governance, compliance, monitoring, CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, containerization, and automated security testing. Collaborates with security, platform, data science, and engineering teams to improve data reliability and operational excellence. Requires strong SQL, data engineering, Azure, DevOps, and data security experience, along with US citizenship.

Own Eve’s data platform end to end, including ingestion, orchestration, incremental dbt models, Snowflake administration, Terraform infrastructure, observability, access controls, and pipeline reliability. Build schema-change detection, freshness SLAs, CI environments, and incident processes while managing performance and compute costs. Partner with analytics engineers and stakeholders to maintain trusted data for reporting and AI systems, using AI-assisted development and documenting platform standards.

Leads data architecture and engineering modernization across business domains. Designs and implements complex pipelines, integrations, data models, and orchestration using Snowflake, AWS, and Airflow. Establishes data quality, governance, security, testing, observability, CI/CD, and reliability practices. Provides architectural guidance, evaluates technical solutions, leads cross-team initiatives, mentors engineers, and improves platform performance and cost efficiency.

Designs and optimizes Power BI dashboards, semantic models, datasets, DAX measures, and reporting solutions for identity governance and administration analytics. Partners with ETL engineers and stakeholders to validate Parquet data from Azure Synapse and SailPoint sources, establish data-quality checks, monitor refreshes, define KPIs, and document data lineage. Supports compliance reporting, access governance, audit readiness, certification metrics, and Zero Trust analytics.

Build and maintain scalable Snowflake-based ELT/ETL pipelines, production data models, and observability frameworks. Translate business requirements into reliable solutions supporting analytics, BI, and ML. Establish data quality, governance, lineage, security, and compliance practices while optimizing warehouse performance, cost, and data freshness. Collaborate with Analytics, Product, and Engineering teams, contribute to architecture decisions, evaluate Snowflake tooling, and use AI-assisted development tools to accelerate delivery.

Designs, builds, and optimizes scalable data collection, storage, access, and analytics systems. Creates and automates reliable data pipelines, supports data quality and governance, ensures SLA and performance compliance, and monitors pipeline operations. The role requires collaboration with analytics, business, and customer teams, with potential work involving AI/ML pipelines, Databricks, DevOps practices, streaming data, and event-driven architectures.

Build and maintain scalable batch and incremental data pipelines using Python, SQL, and Snowflake. Develop data warehouse models, transformations, automation, quality checks, lineage, alerting, and performance optimizations. Collaborate with analysts, data scientists, and application teams to deliver trusted datasets, while documenting pipelines, schemas, and data contracts.

Build and maintain scalable batch and incremental data pipelines using Python, SQL, and Snowflake. Develop warehouse models, transformations, automation, data quality checks, lineage, alerting, and performance optimizations. Collaborate with analysts, data scientists, and application teams to deliver trusted datasets, while documenting pipelines, schemas, and data contracts.

Designs and maintains a scalable data platform supporting analytics, machine learning, and AI workloads. Builds tooling for reliable data pipelines, semantic layers, data agents, LLM applications, and evaluation systems. Ensures data quality, availability, observability, and reliability while establishing modeling, testing, and platform best practices. Collaborates with Data Science and Product Engineering, leads solutions from design through implementation, and contributes individually in a fast-paced startup environment.

Build and maintain scalable batch and streaming data pipelines, analytics warehouses, transformation layers, and dimensional data models. Perform SQL-based analysis, support dashboards and reporting, monitor data quality and delivery SLAs, troubleshoot incidents, and improve operational reliability. Collaborate with engineers, analysts, data scientists, and business stakeholders while contributing to documentation, governance, observability, and automation.

Build scalable data ingestion, transformation, and loading infrastructure using Spark, SQL, AWS, and Databricks. Develop entity resolution systems, CI/CD pipelines, anomaly detection, and data quality processes. Design scalable processing systems, orchestration workflows, storage patterns, and data warehouse solutions. Collaborate remotely, document technical designs, scope projects, and solve complex data engineering and data science problems.

Design, build, and operate scalable batch and streaming data pipelines, lakehouse and warehouse models, and data services. Own datasets end to end, improve Snowflake, Iceberg, Spark, and Flink performance and reliability, implement governance and observability, and support graph-serving data models. Partner with product and engineering teams, participate in on-call, review code and designs, and mentor junior engineers.

Designs scalable data architectures, ELT/ETL pipelines, data models, quality frameworks, and self-service data platforms. Partners with engineering, product, program, leadership, and data science teams to translate business needs into technical solutions. The role includes end-to-end technical ownership, large-scale batch and streaming data processing, mentoring junior engineers, system optimization, and on-call support for platform stability.

Own data pipelines into and out of the warehouse, dbt models, data integrity, governance, identity resolution, reverse ETL, and quality monitoring across growth, lifecycle, and brokerage data. Partner with product, marketing, and operations teams to establish data contracts, ensure accurate and timely business metrics, and support regulated financial data requirements.

Architects, deploys, and operates scalable data platform infrastructure supporting analytics. Responsibilities include administering Airflow and Superset, managing Terraform infrastructure, building CI/CD pipelines, enforcing security and compliance, developing DBT data models, cataloging assets in OpenMetadata, writing Python automation, and mentoring engineers. The role requires extensive infrastructure and data engineering experience across cloud platforms, containers, data security, and workflow orchestration.