Top Senior Data Engineer Jobs in Richmond, VA

Build and lead scalable cloud data platforms, pipelines, and applications for enterprise risk management. The role involves designing data architecture, developing with Python and Spark, working with relational and NoSQL databases, and evaluating platforms such as Snowflake and Databricks. Responsibilities include delivering large-scale data initiatives, ensuring resilience and operational efficiency, mentoring engineers, enforcing design patterns, and communicating technical concepts to stakeholders. The position requires substantial experience in distributed data, SQL, application development, data modeling, cloud platforms, and pipeline engineering.

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.

Design, build, and lead scalable cloud data platforms, pipelines, and applications. The role architects data engineering patterns, evaluates platforms such as Snowflake and Databricks, delivers distributed and streaming workloads, and ensures operational resilience. Responsibilities include collaborating with product and engineering teams, influencing technical decisions, mentoring engineers, communicating data concepts, and leading large-scale initiatives independently.

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.

Lead design and implementation of enterprise data architecture and cloud-based data solutions. Manage large data engineering projects, develop data models and pipelines, ensure governance and security compliance, advise clients strategically, and build high-performing inclusive teams.

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.

Design, build, and optimize complex ETL pipelines, data workflows, monitoring, and alerting systems supporting legal and eDiscovery infrastructure. Lead end-to-end data engineering initiatives, improve query and pipeline performance, document deployment strategies, and ensure privacy, security, and compliance. Collaborate with attorneys, data scientists, engineers, and other stakeholders in regulated environments while contributing to internal consulting and thought leadership initiatives.

Designs, builds, tests, deploys, and maintains secure ETL/ELT pipelines for public health data. Integrates Power Platform, Azure services, APIs, SQL Server, CDC/NIOSH systems, and approved file-transfer platforms. Develops batch, event-driven, and near-real-time data workflows supporting intake, validation, reporting, analytics, notifications, and results delivery while meeting FISMA Moderate, federal privacy, Agile, and DevSecOps requirements.

Lead the architecture and development of scalable AWS-based data ingestion, transformation, and orchestration pipelines. Build reliable data infrastructure using Python, SQL, Airflow, Lambda, ECS, SQS, and Terraform. Establish data modeling, quality, lineage, monitoring, testing, and observability practices while partnering with analysts, scientists, and backend engineers. Mentor senior engineers, guide technical decisions, and provide hands-on leadership for complex data platform initiatives.

Lead the architecture and development of Vercel’s next-generation data platform, supporting batch and real-time integrations, analytics, data warehousing, and AI/ML workloads. Design scalable systems using Kafka, ClickHouse, Tinybird, and Snowflake; establish data governance and security standards; guide architectural decisions and roadmaps; collaborate with engineering, product, security, compliance, and leadership teams; write production code; and mentor engineers.

Build and maintain Databricks-based data platforms, including ingestion, transformation, storage, governance, data modeling, and serving pipelines. Establish medallion architecture standards, canonical data models, quality controls, lineage, schema evolution, and reliable batch or incremental processing. Improve pipeline observability, scalability, idempotency, and recoverability while moving curated data to systems such as ClickHouse. Collaborate across application and analytics teams to create durable, governed production datasets.

Design, build, and maintain Keboola-based data pipelines integrating multiple business systems to deliver accurate, scalable data for supply chain, logistics, and transportation analytics; collaborate with analysts and engineers; support documentation, governance, and pipeline automation.

Develop and optimize enterprise Oracle SQL and PL/SQL solutions, including data models, database designs, APIs, ETL processes, batch jobs, and performance tuning. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate requirements into scalable implementations, support testing and CI/CD, troubleshoot production issues, and document solutions. Provide technical leadership, mentor engineers, participate in architecture and code reviews, and drive engineering best practices across data modernization initiatives.

Design, build, and operate scalable ETL/ELT pipelines and backend data services using Go. Integrate relational, NoSQL, blockchain, API, web, and social data sources; develop NLP pipelines for text extraction and classification; and support production APIs, dashboards, alerts, and intelligence systems. Collaborate with engineering, data science, and investigations teams on architecture, data quality, lineage, validation, monitoring, and client-facing products.

Leads data engineering and data science teams, setting strategy and delivering scalable pipelines, data architecture, models, analytics infrastructure, and data governance. Partners with product, analytics, and business stakeholders to prioritize initiatives, assess upstream changes, maintain data quality, and support Snowflake-based warehousing. This hands-on leadership role includes mentoring staff, contributing to technical codebases, and advancing data science and engineering solutions.

Design, build, and maintain scalable batch and streaming data pipelines using Python, SQL, Kafka, and GCP. Develop REST and GraphQL data services, CI/CD automation, observability, and data-quality frameworks. Integrate ML and NLP models into production workflows, including continuous retraining and real-time inference. Support structured and unstructured healthcare datasets, distributed systems, microservices, and reliable data infrastructure while collaborating with data science and MLOps teams.

Build and configure a government Databricks workspace, develop ingestion and integration pipelines from enterprise and legacy systems, and prepare data for reporting. Implement Unity Catalog governance, metadata management, auditing, and lineage; configure MLflow workflows; assess security controls for sensitive data; and create architecture documentation, data dictionaries, and SOPs to support long-term sustainment.

Lead the design and optimization of healthcare data pipelines integrating EHR, payer, HIE, and vendor data. Build AWS-based ETL/ELT infrastructure, reusable integration tooling, data quality monitoring, and ML enablement foundations. Ensure HIPAA-compliant handling of clinical data, including security controls, audit logging, encryption, and de-identification. Provide technical leadership, mentor engineers, influence platform architecture, and lead complex partner integrations involving FHIR, HL7v2, CCDA, and healthcare terminology standards.

Leads technical strategy for enterprise data pipelines and data-sharing platforms. Builds scalable, resilient, high-performance systems using AWS, lakehouse architecture, Kafka, Flink, Spark, Snowflake, and Databricks. Develops code, drives engineering excellence and technology adoption, influences enterprise stakeholders, advises on platform capabilities, mentors engineers, and recruits technical talent. The role requires deep data engineering and architecture expertise, hands-on leadership, and innovation across internal and external data environments.

Design, build, and maintain scalable Spark-based ETL pipelines and computed tables in a central data lake. Integrate structured and unstructured IoT, sensor, and external data for analytics, model training, and dashboards. Collaborate with Data Science, Analytics, and ML teams to ensure reliable, high-quality customer-facing datasets.

Build and support scalable data platforms and pipelines, leading migrations such as Snowflake to BigQuery and transitioning reporting to Looker. Responsibilities include data architecture, ETL/ELT, API and marketing integrations, data quality, production troubleshooting, warehousing, performance optimization, and platform modernization. The role partners with analytics and business teams, owns projects through production, documents solutions, and provides technical guidance.

Design and lead scalable, secure, highly available database infrastructure for multi-terabyte SQL Server environments. Set technical direction for data architecture, performance, real-time pipelines, security, and growth. Troubleshoot complex production issues, optimize queries and indexes, guide cross-functional projects, mentor engineers, review changes, reduce technical debt, and evaluate emerging technologies. Monitor database health using Splunk, Datadog, and Grafana while influencing engineering and Site Reliability strategy.

Build scalable, secure data pipelines, models, platforms, and governance systems that enable AI applications to access trusted enterprise data. Partner with analytics, marketing, and product teams to translate requirements into technical solutions, independently deliver projects through production, and support sensitive-data security and access controls. Preferred experience includes LLM architectures, cloud data platforms, infrastructure as code, regulated environments, and technical leadership.

Design and scale lakehouse architecture, streaming and batch pipelines, and reliable data platforms using Kafka, Spark, Airflow, Iceberg, Databricks, and related technologies. Build Medallion-layer data systems, manage open table formats, optimize distributed queries, monitor platform reliability, resolve data quality issues, and collaborate with analysts, data scientists, and product teams.

Design and optimize Snowflake data warehouses, dbt transformation models, and scalable ETL/ELT pipelines. Develop ingestion utilities, improve SQL and warehouse performance, establish data quality and governance controls, and maintain CI/CD workflows using Git. Collaborate with analysts, data scientists, and business stakeholders across manufacturing, supply chain, and operations. The role also supports modern DataOps practices and may involve orchestration tools and cloud platforms.