Top Data Engineer Jobs in San Luis Obispo, CA

Designs, develops, and maintains Databricks ETL pipelines, data lake architectures, datasets, and data integrations supporting reporting, analytics, and AI/ML workloads. Troubleshoots and optimizes Databricks and SSIS processes, maintains legacy systems, implements data quality controls, and supports data warehousing. Maintains SSRS reports and collaborates with business users, analysts, and IT teams to deliver reporting solutions. Documents work, communicates technical information, and contributes to AI-assisted development practices.

Build scalable data pipelines, ELT processes, infrastructure, and dimensional data models supporting internal analytics and customer-facing data products. Implement data quality monitoring, auditing, alerting, warehouse optimization, and governed semantic layers for AI and LLM-enabled analytics. Partner with technical and business stakeholders, improve data processes using AI, and deliver reliable metrics from diverse data sources.

Designs and builds scalable, reliable, observable batch and streaming data pipelines and models. Partners with stakeholders on data integration, validates data quality, writes tests, participates in code reviews, documents solutions, troubleshoots production issues, and aligns technical work with business needs. The role requires strong programming, database, data modeling, governance, and Databricks knowledge, with preferred experience in Spark, AWS data services, CI/CD, testing, orchestration, and transformation frameworks.

Design, build, and optimize enterprise ETL/ELT pipelines, cloud data lakes, lakehouse solutions, data models, and semantic layers across AWS and Azure. Ensure data quality, security, performance, reliability, and governance while supporting analytics, reporting, and AI initiatives. Collaborate with product, engineering, IT, and business stakeholders to translate requirements into scalable data solutions, monitor pipeline health, troubleshoot issues, and improve data architecture and practices.

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

Design and build a medallion architecture using dbt and Microsoft Fabric, create and maintain data ingestion pipelines, and implement governance, lineage, documentation, and quality checks to support self-serve analytics while collaborating with cross-functional teams.

Lead data engineering and machine learning initiatives by designing, architecting, developing, and supporting GCP data pipelines. Create information architecture documentation, estimate and plan technical work, collaborate with project teams and business analysts, and translate requirements into technical designs. Develop Python-based ELT pipelines, optimize BigQuery SQL, support CI/CD, and provide technical leadership to projects and teams.

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.

Designs and develops enterprise cloud data solutions, including batch, near-real-time, and API-based pipelines. Builds data models, warehouses, lakes, and lakehouses while implementing governance, quality, lineage, and curation practices. Supports CI/CD, testing, monitoring, observability, security, and compliance. Collaborates with architects, product owners, analysts, and leadership on platform strategy and modernization. Mentors engineers, leads reviews, presents technical topics, and explores AI-enabled data capabilities.

Lead Salesforce data migration and quality activities for a Department of Veterans Affairs modernization program. Analyze SQL Server data, create source-to-target mappings, execute ETL and Salesforce loading, validate and reconcile records, implement data quality controls, and develop migration and application test plans. Track defects, support automated monitoring and testing, collaborate with architects, developers, stakeholders, and provide migration status, risk, and quality updates.

Build and own the data platform backbone: design ingestion patterns, Snowflake warehouses, governance, and freshness strategy. Implement reliable batch and streaming pipelines, data quality, observability, and onboarding processes. Lead legacy migrations, create data contracts and SLAs, and apply AI-native tooling to automate debugging, documentation, and operational workflows while partnering with Analytics, Engineering, and vendors.

Lead design and ownership of a modern data platform: ingestion, Snowflake governance, pipeline reliability, migrations, data contracts, observability, and AI-enabled tooling. Partner with Analytics, Engineering, and vendors to deliver trustworthy data products and operate production pipelines.

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.

Own and optimize data infrastructure and ETL/ELT pipelines using SSIS and Microsoft Fabric. Build and maintain SQL Server data warehouse staging, transformations, and lakehouse ingestion. Implement CI/CD, version control with GitHub, monitor pipeline health, troubleshoot data issues, document data flows, and translate stakeholder requirements into data engineering solutions that support BI reporting.

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.

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

Lead data science and analytics initiatives for healthcare, overseeing model development, data integrity, and large-scale automated analyses. Provide actionable insights, mentor teams, collaborate with cross-functional partners, evaluate payment integrity campaigns, and present findings to stakeholders to optimize revenue, quality, consumer experience, and healthcare costs.

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.

Design, develop, and manage data infrastructure for internal and client projects, focusing on large-scale data pipelines, APIs, and cloud deployments.

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.

Design, build, and optimize scalable cloud data pipelines and infrastructure. Maintain and refactor SQL and ETL processes, automate data workflows, ensure data quality/security, and troubleshoot complex issues. Provide technical leadership and mentor junior engineers while collaborating with stakeholders to translate requirements.

Serve as the technical owner for customer-facing data workflows and integrations: build pipelines, write SQL and Python scripts, deploy AI-powered workflows, manage APIs and Snowflake ingestion, and translate repeatable solutions into product requirements while supporting customer success and internal engineering.

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