Top Data Engineer Jobs in Richmond, VA

Forward-deployed senior data engineer who deploys, hardens, integrates, and operates a data platform (lakehouse, streaming, governance) in DoD environments. Build pipelines across classification boundaries, produce accreditation evidence (STIG/cATO/FIPS), run day-2 operations, train mission teams, and mentor junior FDEs while feeding field feedback into product improvements.

Design, build, and maintain scalable ELT data pipelines and models to power reporting, analytics, and operational workflows. Troubleshoot data quality and performance, participate in incident response, support CI/CD deployments, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and contribute to data platform modernization and engineering best practices.

As a Principal Data Engineer, you will design and implement data infrastructure and solutions, collaborating across teams to enhance healthcare data usage.

The Forward Deployed Data Engineer will manage AI-automated data platform migration projects, ensuring timely delivery and communication with clients while utilizing proprietary tools.

The Data Engineer designs and operates data and machine-learning systems for HSA/FSA eligibility, building pipelines, models, and APIs to support decision-making at Flex.

The Data Engineer will build and maintain scalable data pipelines, ensure data quality, and collaborate with teams to meet data requirements for federal government projects.

The Data Engineer will build and maintain scalable data pipelines, improve ETL processes, collaborate with AI/ML teams, and contribute to engineering culture.

The Data Engineer is responsible for developing data infrastructure, building data pipelines, managing data quality, and integrating analytics tools to support design and project operations.

Lead design and implementation of shared, reusable analytics data models and pipelines. Drive standardization, governance, observability, and CI/CD for analytics; partner with Data Science, Infrastructure, and Product to certify metrics, modernize orchestration, and integrate AI-native tooling.

As the founding engineer of the Data Intelligence team, you will design semantic layers, develop AI tooling, and automate data processes to drive business insights.

As a Lead Data Engineer, you will design and implement data solutions using big data technologies, collaborate with Agile teams, and mentor other engineers.

Lead large-scale migration of document-heavy legacy systems into cloud, convert unstructured documents to analytics-ready data, build MuleSoft integrations and APIs, apply DataWeave transformations, ensure data quality, lineage, governance, and support Salesforce Data 360 implementation and cutover in Agile 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.

As a Lead Data Engineer, you will collaborate with Agile teams, develop technical solutions, and enhance cloud-based data warehousing to empower financial services for customers.

As the first in-house Data Engineer, you will own the data infrastructure, build and maintain data pipelines, and collaborate with teams to ensure quality data access and insights.

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.

Develop and maintain Python-based data applications and pipelines: fetch data from databases/APIs/files, build Pandas DataFrames/NumPy arrays, write complex SQL and data transformations, handle nested JSON, and collaborate with data science teams to deliver production data platforms.

As a Senior Data Engineer at Jellyfish, you'll build and maintain data pipelines, optimize orchestration, automate CI/CD processes, and enhance data integration while ensuring high performance and reliability.

Lead and mentor multiple Databricks-focused data engineering teams, define engineering best practices and reusable frameworks, drive CI/CD and performance/cost optimization, build and support analytical and streaming pipelines, and collaborate with architects, product owners, and cross-functional partners to deliver high-quality 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 ETL/ELT pipelines, ingest and transform structured and unstructured data, integrate APIs and external sources, improve data quality and monitoring, support dashboards and ML pipelines, optimize warehouse and cloud performance, and contribute to data governance and documentation.

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).

As a Data Engineer, you will build and optimize data pipelines, ensuring accurate data delivery that informs pricing and market analytics at Alt.

The Senior Bioinformatics Data Engineer will build data pipelines, implement clinical data ingestion, and optimize platform infrastructure while ensuring data quality and compliance with legal standards.

Lead design, build, and optimize scalable ETL/ELT data pipelines and analytics platforms using Databricks and Spark. Integrate and transform source data into analytics-ready layers, maintain data documentation and lineage, optimize SQL Server performance, collaborate with product and engineering teams, and apply AI-enabled tools responsibly to drive business insights.