Top Data Engineer Jobs in Richmond, VA

Lead and mentor data engineering teams to design, build, test, and support cloud-based, full-stack data solutions. Work with big data, streaming, and data warehousing technologies (Redshift/Snowflake), collaborate with product managers, and ensure high-quality, performant code and systems.

Lead Data Engineer designs, develops, tests, and supports cloud-based data solutions. Collaborates with Agile teams, mentors engineers, implements big data and streaming systems, and optimizes code for performance to deliver data-driven products.

Own and evolve the data infrastructure powering identity and fraud products. Build and operate scalable ETL/ELT pipelines, ensure data quality and observability, optimize storage and access, support product squads, respond to production incidents, mentor engineers, and drive data platform innovation.

Lead the Data Platform Engineering team owning ETL/reverse-ETL pipelines, replication, and production datastores. Define architecture, roadmap, standards (IaC, observability, schema contracts), mentor engineers, drive incident response and durable fixes, and partner on cross-team technical decisions and operational reliability for data correctness, completeness, and timeliness.

Lead Data Engineer responsible for designing, developing, testing, and supporting cloud-based data publication and transformation solutions. Collaborate across Agile teams to build distributed, real-time data pipelines and data warehousing (Redshift/Snowflake), perform unit tests and code reviews, mentor engineers, and adopt emerging technologies to deliver scalable data platforms.

The Senior Data Engineer will design and implement scalable data models in BigQuery using dbt for analytics and reporting, ensuring data governance and optimal performance.

Lead design and operation of large-scale data pipelines and data APIs. Build Spark/PySpark workflows on Databricks, optimize job performance, manage data quality and observability, and develop MCP servers and AI-agent integrations. Mentor engineers, define standards, support production incidents and on-call rotations, and collaborate with stakeholders to deliver scalable data platform products.

The role involves migrating on-premises databases to AWS, developing Python scripts for data processing, and building AWS data pipelines. Responsibilities include supporting application teams, data modeling, and ensuring system efficiency.

Lead Data Engineer will design, build, test, and support cloud-based data solutions and streaming systems. Collaborate with Agile teams and product managers, mentor engineers, implement big data tooling (Spark, Kafka, EMR), and optimize data warehousing (Redshift, Snowflake) using Java/Scala/Python and SQL. Ensure code quality with unit tests and reviews.

Lead Data Engineer designs, develops, tests, implements, and supports cloud-based data solutions. Collaborates with agile teams, mentors engineers, builds streaming and batch pipelines using big-data and cloud technologies, and ensures performant, well-tested code.

As a Sr. Lead Data Engineer, you'll collaborate across teams to develop technical solutions, lead developers, and utilize big data technologies and cloud services to support data transformations.

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.

Build and maintain large-scale data processing pipelines using Apache Spark (PySpark/Scala) and Python. Design ETL workflows, implement distributed data processing, use version control (Git), and work with cloud platforms (GCP/AWS/Azure).

Build and maintain governed Silver/Gold data models and semantic assets on Databricks. Translate stakeholder KPIs into testable, reusable transformations, apply enterprise modeling standards, enable domain self-service, ensure data sensitivity and governance, and review domain-contributed models for production readiness.

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.

As a Data Engineer, you will develop solutions for customer-centric technology, ensuring platform integration and managing data architecture. Responsibilities include building data processes, maintaining data integrity, and collaborating cross-functionally to meet business challenges.

Designs, deploys, and supports healthcare data acquisition, integration, transformation, and data quality solutions using enterprise and cloud technologies. Develops SQL assets, OMOP Common Data Model transformations, testing processes, documentation, and AI data pipelines. Manages projects, resolves escalated incidents, mentors data engineers, supports training, and collaborates with analysts, vendors, clients, and technology teams.

Owner of data platform modernization: design and migrate legacy systems to Kimball-style dimensional models and star schemas; build reliable production data pipelines; enforce data hygiene and validation; champion dbt best practices; mentor junior engineers; collaborate with analysts and stakeholders to ensure scalable, well-documented data models and platform observability.

Design, build, and maintain Data Vault 2.0 data warehouse and Power BI solutions. Develop ETL pipelines, data models, reusable datasets, and data governance. Perform profiling, cleansing, migrations, and collaborate with infrastructure teams to optimize data delivery, automation, and reporting.

Build, operationalize, and design complex data solutions for multiple customer accounts. Responsibilities include data transformation, cleansing, governance, security, quality, source analysis, testing data movement and transformation code, troubleshooting defects and incidents, and educating end users. The role also requires guiding customers on technical decisions, collaborating across teams, and supporting data products and analytical environments.

Build and operate data-intensive web products and APIs, extend high-throughput ETL pipelines and scrapers, ensure reliability/observability, design self-scaling services, participate in code review, and collaborate across product, data, and infrastructure teams to meet production SLAs.

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.

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 maintain cloud cost monitoring, alerting, and optimization tooling. Develop automation, cost allocation/tagging, data pipelines, dashboards, and integrations with billing APIs. Support FinOps processes, implement cost guardrails, troubleshoot cost systems, participate in on-call rotation, and collaborate with senior engineers and product teams to drive cost-efficient infrastructure and reporting.