Top Senior Data Engineer Jobs in Richmond, VA

Leads the architecture, development, and maintenance of scalable batch and real-time data pipelines, cloud data platforms, ETL/ELT workflows, and ML data infrastructure. Establishes standards for data quality, observability, lineage, governance, security, and modeling. Partners with data scientists, engineers, DevOps, and business stakeholders; evaluates technologies, drives technical initiatives, mentors engineers, and supports production-grade APIs and machine learning pipelines.

Own end-to-end production data platforms, writing Python and SQL, designing AWS pipelines, modeling analytics data, and implementing quality and reconciliation controls. Make architecture decisions independently, ensure correctness and auditability, and use AI coding tools effectively. The role also supports applied AI initiatives including entity resolution, LLM-assisted analytics, embeddings, and anomaly scoring.

Owns the end-to-end data platform, including Snowflake infrastructure, ingestion pipelines, Airflow orchestration, dbt transformations, governed gold-layer models, and metric definitions. Ensures reliability, performance, testing, documentation, governance, and CI/CD standards. Builds data systems from scratch, partners with analytics stakeholders, and uses AI-assisted development tools to accelerate engineering work. Requires strong SQL, platform ownership, software engineering practices, and experience with Snowflake, Airflow, and dbt.

Build and optimize data transformation pipelines using SQL, dbt, Airflow, Python, BigQuery, and relational databases. Collaborate with stakeholders and data engineers, manage task scheduling, resolve data issues, perform analyses, present recommendations, support data exploration tool adoption, and mentor team members. The role also contributes to hiring, onboarding, and professional development while ensuring data accuracy and insight quality.

Build and operate large-scale audio data pipelines for AI model training. Responsibilities include discovering data sources, improving data-processing systems for quality, throughput, and cost, collaborating with AI scientists, and owning engineering projects through continuous improvement.

Build and operate large-scale audio data pipelines for AI model training. Responsibilities include discovering data sources, developing reliable processing systems, optimizing data quality, throughput, and cost, and collaborating with AI scientists. The role requires ownership of engineering projects from discovery through continuous improvement in a distributed, ambiguous environment.

Build and operate large-scale data pipelines that acquire, process, and improve audio datasets for AI model training. The role focuses on data quality, throughput, cost optimization, production systems, and collaboration with AI scientists. Responsibilities include discovering data sources, developing reliable processing systems, and owning engineering projects from discovery through continuous improvement.

Build and operate large-scale audio data pipelines for AI model training. Responsibilities include discovering data sources, developing reliable data-processing systems, optimizing data quality, throughput, and cost, and collaborating with AI scientists. The role requires ownership of engineering projects from discovery through continuous improvement in a distributed, autonomous environment.

Build and operate large-scale audio data pipelines for AI model training. Responsibilities include discovering data sources, developing reliable data acquisition and processing systems, optimizing quality, throughput, and cost, and collaborating with AI scientists. The role requires ownership of engineering projects from discovery through continuous improvement, with emphasis on backend development, production systems, and scalable data processing.

Build and operate large-scale audio data pipelines for AI model training. Responsibilities include discovering data sources, processing petabyte-scale datasets, optimizing quality, throughput, and cost, collaborating with AI scientists, and owning engineering projects from discovery through continuous improvement.

Build and operate large-scale data pipelines that collect, process, and optimize audio datasets for AI model training. The role involves discovering data sources, improving data quality, throughput, and cost efficiency, collaborating with AI scientists, and owning engineering projects from discovery through continuous improvement.

Designs and maintains secure, reliable data platforms, including relational data models, migrations, pipelines, monitoring, data quality processes, and self-service reporting access. The role protects PHI and PII through access controls, encryption, audit logging, and governance in a HIPAA environment. It also involves backend API development, code reviews, security reviews, stakeholder collaboration, and mentoring teams on data practices.

Own Moxie’s end-to-end data infrastructure, including pipelines, Snowflake warehousing, dbt and Omni modeling, orchestration, observability, and documentation. Partner with Engineering and Finance on schema changes, accounting logic, metrics, and business-critical reporting. Deliver financial or historical EMR data models, establish SOPs and reliability KPIs, optimize performance and cost, and help advance Practice Intelligence toward predictive and prescriptive products with appropriate AI safeguards.

Build and own Snout’s data foundation, including PostgreSQL and dbt warehouses, ingestion pipelines, dimensional models, data quality, documentation, and reliable rebuilds. Reconcile data from veterinary practice-management systems, support LLM/AI tooling, translate stakeholder needs into technical plans, and establish the foundation for a future data team and analyst.

Design, develop, and operate large-scale data ingestion, transformation, enrichment, and processing pipelines across cloud, hybrid, and on-premises environments. Build distributed services using Java, Python, and Kafka; optimize data models and platform performance; deploy applications on Kubernetes; support infrastructure automation and CI/CD; troubleshoot production systems; and collaborate with customers and solution architects on implementations.

Design, build, and own business-critical data pipelines and infrastructure across warehouses, orchestration, BI, and multiple regions. Develop AWS Glue and Spark jobs, data models, event contracts, observability, and batch or streaming architectures. Collaborate across producer and consumer teams, support Federal workloads, and operate production data platforms in government cloud environments.

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.

Designs, builds, and maintains scalable ETL and data processing pipelines supporting analytics, forecasting, risk, and customer insights. Leads complex SQL development, data modeling, governance, quality, lineage, security, and compliance. Partners with engineering, finance, sales, compliance, product, analysts, and data scientists to translate requirements into reliable workflows. Evaluates emerging technologies, leads proof-of-concepts, and develops automated solutions using Python, Spark, Databricks, cloud platforms, orchestration tools, and modern data warehouses.

Leads the design, development, optimization, and migration of modern data platforms in Snowflake. Builds pipelines with dbt, Python, and cloud services; gathers client requirements; creates solution designs and project plans; advises on Snowflake performance, cost, security, and workload management; integrates BI, governance, and AI/ML tools; contributes to accelerators and mentors junior engineers. The role is remote, client-facing, consultative, and focused primarily on technical delivery rather than sales.

Build and operate batch and streaming data pipelines, ETL/ELT workflows, data warehouses, dimensional models, and reusable data services. Improve reliability, performance, quality, and cost efficiency through monitoring, testing, automation, and incident response. Partner with analytics, data science, product, business, platform, and infrastructure teams to deliver production data solutions and roadmap initiatives. Apply AI-assisted tools responsibly to development, testing, documentation, and troubleshooting.

Own and operate the Snowflake warehouse and Sigma semantic layer; manage ingestion (Fivetran), dbt model scoping and review, reverse-ETL, data quality SLAs, dashboards, month-end financial analytics, vendor management, and automation to support AdOps, Sales, Finance, and executive reporting.

Build and operate scalable batch, streaming, and event-driven data pipelines, cloud data platforms, trusted data products, and analytical models. Improve data quality, observability, reliability, performance, and cost efficiency while supporting risk, finance, product, analytics, and AI initiatives. Partner cross-functionally, influence architecture, lead complex technical initiatives, mentor engineers, and establish strong engineering practices including testing, CI/CD, governance, and infrastructure automation.

Lead data engineering strategy and develop enterprise data lake solutions on AWS. Build data pipelines using AWS data integration, engineering, and analytics resources, develop API services with FastAPI or Flask, optimize engineering practices, create long-term data plans, and represent the team in executive meetings.

Build and maintain dbt and semantic data models in Snowflake, develop ingestion and transformation pipelines, define trusted product metrics, and improve data collection. Partner with Product and Engineering to support experimentation and feature analysis. Establish data quality testing, documentation, HIPAA-aware access controls, and compliance practices. Use and validate AI-generated code and Snowflake Cortex outputs while raising technical standards across the team.

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.