Top Data Engineer Jobs in Sacramento, CA

As a Data Engineer, you will build and maintain data pipelines, ensure data quality, support ML workflows, and optimize query performance using various technologies.

The Data Engineer is responsible for designing data workflows and pipelines, implementing systems engineering principles, and deploying data streaming technologies while ensuring compliance with industry regulations and best practices.

Design, develop, maintain, and optimize ADABAS database structures and data solutions. Support mainframe data processing (Natural, COBOL, JCL), perform migrations to modern platforms, tune performance, ensure data integrity/security, troubleshoot issues, and collaborate with developers, architects, and analysts on modernization, API/cloud integration, and data warehousing initiatives.

Leads the design and delivery of scalable data pipelines, dbt models, orchestration workflows, and analytical data models. Establishes data architecture, engineering standards, quality frameworks, governance, observability, and self-service analytics practices. Partners with stakeholders, leads technical reviews, mentors engineers, supports hiring, oversees analyses, and participates in incident response and continuous improvement.

Design, build, and maintain data lakes, data warehouses, and end-to-end data pipelines for a multi-tenant SaaS platform. Lead code and design reviews, write infrastructure-as-code, optimize performance and scalability, participate in data governance, mentor junior engineers, evaluate new technologies, automate tests, collaborate cross-functionally, and join on-call rotation to ensure reliable data delivery.

Own the architecture, technical direction, reliability, and evolution of a shared cloud data platform. Lead hands-on development of streaming and batch pipelines using infrastructure-as-code, build governed analytical data products, and establish data contracts, quality, security, lineage, and observability standards. Serve as the final technical escalation point, mentor engineers, lead design and code reviews, promote responsible AI-assisted coding, respond to incidents, and communicate technical tradeoffs across stakeholders.

Own end-to-end data engineering for a business domain, including API and other-source ingestion, dbt models, orchestration, data-quality testing, monitoring, documentation, and performance. Build reliable, AI-ready single sources of truth and ensure data freshness, accuracy, traceability, and scalability. Collaborate with stakeholders and the Director of Data, establish engineering patterns, review work, and mentor other engineers.

The Senior Data Engineer will design and implement lakehouse architectures, optimize ClickHouse deployments, develop ETL/ELT pipelines, and create data models to support analytical and operational functions.

Design, build, and own business-critical data infrastructure, including AWS Glue and Spark pipelines, cloud warehouse or lakehouse systems, orchestration, and Tableau BI platforms. Define event-driven contracts, data models, schemas, observability, and batch or streaming architectures across multi-tenant, multi-region environments. Collaborate across producer and consumer teams while owning production data infrastructure and outcomes end to end.

Design and support ETL, data migration, transformation, import, export, and validation workflows for moving legacy EHR data into athenahealth systems. Build Python and SQL utilities, define source-to-target mappings, support HL7 and FHIR interoperability, validate EHI exports, investigate data quality issues, document processes, and collaborate with product, implementation, operations, sales, and engineering teams in a remote environment.

Design, build, and operate scalable PostgreSQL databases and cloud-native data infrastructure. Build and maintain ETL/ELT pipelines, optimize query and server performance, ensure high availability and disaster recovery, improve observability, troubleshoot production issues, guide schema and application design, evaluate database technologies, and mentor junior engineers to support reliable, secure data-driven applications.

Own the go-to-market data infrastructure, integrating HubSpot, Dreamdata, advertising platforms, PostHog, and website data into BigQuery. Diagnose tracking and attribution discrepancies, configure multi-touch revenue attribution, and build executive dashboards covering channel performance and revenue. Develop ABM workflows using Clay, enrichment, behavioral signals, and AI personalization. Partner with sales and marketing to improve funnel visibility, campaign decisions, and outbound effectiveness.

The job involves leveraging AWS and Snowflake for data engineering tasks within a technology-focused company, requiring US residency.

Design, build, deploy, and operationalize scalable data engineering solutions for customers. Responsibilities include developing pipelines, transforming and cleansing data, analyzing sources, implementing governance, security, and quality practices, testing data movement and transformation code, resolving defects and incidents, and advising customers on technical decisions. The role also supports AI, machine learning, business intelligence, and data product adoption while collaborating across teams and educating end users.

Design and build Snowflake transformation layer and migrate legacy SQL to versioned dbt models. Define conformed dimensions/facts using Kimball principles, set modeling and CI/CD standards, implement data quality/lineage, support BI migration and AI/ML readiness, and mentor future hires. Hands-on work in dbt, SQL, and Python with stakeholder collaboration and governance for financial and operational data.

The role involves architecting intelligence infrastructure, building data pipelines, collaborating with other teams, and ensuring data accessibility and security for threat detection systems.

The Data Engineer will design and maintain data pipelines, optimize cloud data warehouses, and collaborate with analytics teams while mentoring junior staff.

Design, build, and maintain scalable data pipelines and tenant-aware APIs to ingest and transform data from varied sources. Work with event-driven and batch architectures, implement authentication and integration patterns, ensure observability/monitoring, optimize data flows for cost and performance, and collaborate with product, infrastructure, and engineering teams to onboard and maintain data sources at scale.

Lead design and implementation of Jane's customer data infrastructure: own event collection, pipelines, CDP tooling, schema governance, identity resolution, and attribution. Work cross-functionally with marketing, BI, product, and engineering to set standards, evaluate tooling (e.g., RudderStack), ensure privacy-compliant instrumentation, and build reliable, consistent data delivery to the warehouse.

Responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining scalable data pipelines and infrastructure, implementing data governance, and collaborating with teams to meet data needs.

Lead design and scaling of ELT pipelines and analytics schemas on Snowflake. Build Looker views, CI/CD automation, and orchestration workflows (Prefect/Airflow). Ensure production reliability with monitoring (Datadog, Monte Carlo), partner with cross-functional teams, and provide technical leadership including code reviews, testing, and end-to-end ownership of data integrity and platform trustworthiness.

Leads data engineering strategy, architecture, delivery, support, and lifecycle management for secure, scalable cloud and hosted data solutions. Collaborates with technical and business stakeholders to deliver complex datasets, establish enterprise data standards, manage data engineering teams, and oversee maintenance, change management, capacity planning, business continuity, disaster recovery, and regulatory security requirements. The role also evaluates third-party tools and supports Azure DevOps, SDLC, CI/CD, and technical innovation.

The Senior Data Engineer will develop data engineering solutions, manage ETL workflows, and establish a new data practice while collaborating with stakeholders.

The Data Architect will design scalable data models, transform raw data into actionable insights, and deploy analytics solutions for healthcare providers, with a strong emphasis on SQL proficiency and cloud technologies.

Lead Data Engineer responsible for defining architecture, engineering standards, and best practices for the enterprise data platform, collaborating with distributed teams for modernization and scalability.