Top Data Engineer Jobs in Santa Cruz, CA

Designs, develops, maintains, and optimizes complex data systems, SQL/ETL processes, reporting solutions, and .NET applications supporting pharmacy benefit management. Responsibilities include database performance tuning, data warehousing, troubleshooting pharmacy claims, technical specification development, software testing, cloud integration, stakeholder collaboration, Agile participation, and mentoring. The role requires strong SQL Server, dimensional modeling, cloud database, Python, PowerShell, and healthcare data standards expertise.

Designs and optimizes scalable data platforms, architectures, and production pipelines supporting AI and machine learning. Responsibilities include Databricks Lakehouse development, batch and real-time processing, data governance, security, monitoring, performance tuning, infrastructure planning, and collaboration with DevOps, MLOps, and cross-functional teams. The role serves as the AI team’s data engineering subject matter expert and ensures reliable, secure, cost-effective data solutions.

Develop and maintain data pipelines, infrastructure, and integrations supporting analytics, data science, and business intelligence. Ensure data quality and integrity, optimize workflows, and collaborate with Operations, IT, Accounting, HR, Property Services, Marketing, and other departments. The role requires SQL Server, programming, shell scripting, cloud, containerization, version control, and data pipeline knowledge, with occasional travel and flexible scheduling as project deadlines require.

Leads the design, development, and optimization of scalable data pipelines and analytics platforms. Builds ETL/ELT workflows using Databricks and Spark, integrates and transforms source data into curated models, manages SQL Server data, and maintains documentation and lineage. Collaborates with product, analytics, and engineering teams to deliver reliable data solutions. Applies responsible AI practices and delivers projects independently within established timelines.

Build and own production data infrastructure for a healthcare AI platform. Responsibilities include REST API ingestion, Azure Event Hubs streaming into Databricks, Delta Lake medallion pipelines, entity resolution, semantic metrics, data-quality instrumentation, reconciliation, schema-drift handling, and troubleshooting source-to-warehouse discrepancies. The role requires strong Python and SQL skills, independent pipeline ownership, and experience with Databricks, Spark, PySpark, streaming, and healthcare-related data is a plus.

Architects and leads enterprise data engineering platforms, including scalable ETL/ELT pipelines, streaming frameworks, cloud infrastructure, data warehouses, and AI/ML data systems. Establishes engineering standards, governance, monitoring, data quality, security, and schema management practices. Designs AI agents using LLMs, partners across business and infrastructure teams, and makes high-impact architectural decisions for reliable, secure, multi-region data environments.

Administer and enhance Edmunds’ Databricks data platform and AWS infrastructure. Build and maintain ETL pipelines, infrastructure-as-code tooling using Terraform or CDK, and operational dashboards, alerts, and reports. Collaborate with business, engineering, analytics, security, and infrastructure teams to support data platform users and AI solutions. Evaluate new technologies, troubleshoot platform issues, and improve operational, cost, and security visibility.

Build and guide data platform capabilities supporting marketing, finance, analytics, and data science. Develop data collection, integration, scoring, experimentation, analytics, and infrastructure solutions; contribute code, lead cross-functional technical initiatives, improve system resiliency through incident response, and establish engineering standards. Partner with business and technical stakeholders to define strategy and long-term roadmaps.

Builds business-critical dashboards, scorecards, reports, and ad hoc analyses using SQL, Python, Excel, Power BI, and Tableau. Analyzes KPIs, identifies trends and root causes, automates recurring reporting, validates data, and translates complex findings into actionable insights for stakeholders and leadership. The role collaborates with data engineers and cross-functional teams to improve reporting workflows, data pipelines, and decision-making.

Lead financial data engineering initiatives involving commissions, incentive programs, and backend financial systems. Build scalable, accurate, and reliable data pipelines, platform tooling, partner integrations, analytics infrastructure, and data science infrastructure. Shape technical strategy and roadmaps, collaborate with Finance, Product, Data Science, and Engineering, mentor engineers, contribute code, lead incident response, and establish engineering standards.

Own and evolve UJET’s data platform, including MySQL CDC replication to BigQuery, dbt transformations, Terraform infrastructure, pipelines, data quality, observability, and Looker models. Build reliable, analytics-ready datasets and trusted metrics for internal and customer-facing reporting. Partner with Analytics, Finance, Product, and Engineering to deliver scalable data solutions, improve platform reliability, optimize performance and costs, and establish development standards and guardrails.

Designs, builds, tests, and maintains secure, scalable cloud data platforms, pipelines, ETL/ELT processes, data models, data marts, integrations, and reporting services. Supports data migration, archiving, disaster recovery, governance, metadata management, data quality, CI/CD deployments, and performance optimization. Collaborates with architecture, governance, migration, QA, and business teams in an Agile federal environment while maintaining audit-ready documentation and mentoring junior engineers.

Designs, develops, and maintains scalable cloud-based data pipelines and enterprise data solutions. The role covers data ingestion, transformation, orchestration, integration, data lakes, cloud warehouses, batch and streaming processes, performance optimization, governance, and lineage. The Senior Data Engineer collaborates with analysts, data scientists, engineers, stakeholders, contractors, and vendors while mentoring junior staff. Core tools include Databricks, dbt, Azure Data Factory, SQL, Python, and Azure.

Develop and maintain Tableau dashboards, data visualizations, analytics solutions, and reporting tools. Clean and transform data using Databricks, SQL, and Python; identify workflow automation opportunities; and partner with stakeholders to deliver analytics and AI use cases. The role also involves client presentations, requirements gathering, business development support, and federal government consulting.

Own the architecture and operation of 9amHealth’s data platform, including Python and SQL ETL/ELT pipelines, AWS infrastructure, Redshift data models, semantic layers, governance, quality, monitoring, and reliability. Establish technical standards, optimize performance and costs, support AI/ML initiatives, build integrations, and mentor data team members. Partner with business and clinical stakeholders to deliver reliable data products and translate complex questions into actionable analytics.

Own and evolve WorkOS’s internal data platform, including ingestion, orchestration, Snowflake, dbt models, data governance, reverse ETL, semantic views, and AI-enabled data workflows. Ensure pipeline reliability, freshness, security, and scalability while partnering with Product, Finance, RevOps, GTM, Engineering, and Security. Build monitoring, runbooks, CI/CD gates, access controls, masking policies, and infrastructure automation across AWS and Kubernetes.

Build and scale secure data lakehouse and warehouse infrastructure supporting analytics, machine learning, clinical AI performance monitoring, and self-service insights. Develop scalable data pipelines, models, orchestration, quality controls, and LLM-enabled analytics tools using heterogeneous clinical and EHR data. Collaborate with engineering, data science, clinical, product, and client success teams to establish trustworthy metrics and technical solutions.

Lead pre-sales technical engagements to design and optimize scalable cloud lakehouse data platforms (Snowflake/Databricks). Provide architecture reviews, ETL/ELT pipeline design, governance and AI-ready data foundations, support services sales, and translate technical tradeoffs into actionable recommendations for engineering and executive stakeholders.

Design, build, and operate production data pipelines using Python, Spark SQL, and Airflow. Canonicalize healthcare and customer data into trusted internal models, optimize distributed processing, enforce schemas, and implement quality checks and observability. Support customer onboarding, streaming pipelines, troubleshooting, on-call operations, and platform best practices while collaborating with product, analytics, engineering, data science, and customer teams.

Own end-to-end client data migrations: reverse-engineer legacy ETL, design and build Airflow DAGs and Spark jobs, validate and reconcile data at scale, document architecture and decisions, and coordinate cross-functional teams through go-live and hypercare.

Own the analytics data layer by translating stakeholder needs into certified dimensional models, governed metrics, semantic layers, dashboards, and reports. Build with dbt, SQL, Databricks, Power BI, and Airflow while ensuring data quality, observability, reconciliation, documentation, and dependable orchestration. Partner closely with finance, operations, and client-facing teams, automate recurring workflows, and use AI-assisted engineering practices in a fully remote environment.

Own the technical design and operation of Palmetto’s governed data platform. Build trusted data products, semantic models, ingestion and transformation pipelines, secure access interfaces, and agent-ready data services. Establish governance, masking, authorization, observability, CI/CD, and audit readiness. Partner with finance, operations, product, and engineering teams while mentoring engineers and setting cross-team technical direction.

Designs, builds, and maintains Databricks data pipelines and analytics solutions using SQL and Python. Collaborates with development and IT teams, applies DevOps and CI/CD practices, supports Power BI dashboards, and contributes to data modeling, management, and governance. The role requires extensive Databricks and cloud-platform experience, strong communication skills, fluent English, and at least five years of relevant experience.

Build scalable data ingestion, transformation, and loading infrastructure using Spark, SQL, AWS, and Databricks. Develop entity resolution systems, CI/CD pipelines, anomaly detection, and high-quality data products. Design scalable processing and storage patterns, orchestration workflows, and data warehousing solutions while collaborating remotely and documenting technical designs.

Build and maintain scalable, fault-tolerant data pipelines, warehouses, and analytics solutions. Transform complex structured and semi-structured data, automate delivery processes, improve data quality and reliability, and support enterprise data strategies. Collaborate with analysts, data scientists, actuaries, and business teams to translate requirements into solutions. Research new technologies, troubleshoot issues, maintain version-controlled code, and mentor data engineering team members.