Top Senior Data Engineer Jobs in St. Louis, MO

Lead design, implementation, and maintenance of production-scale AWS data services and pipelines (batch & streaming). Drive data ingestion, modeling, warehousing, lakes, APIs, and governance; coordinate S3, SQS, Lambda, DynamoDB; collaborate with product and analytics teams; ensure reliability, scalability, and compliance in defense-related analytics solutions.

Design, implement, and manage advanced data ecosystems and scalable ETL/ELT pipelines. Analyze complex problems, deliver data warehousing and governance solutions, mentor junior staff, and build client relationships while maintaining high standards and business-context awareness.

Lead design and implementation of enterprise data architecture and cloud-based data solutions. Manage large data engineering projects, develop data models and pipelines, ensure governance and security compliance, advise clients strategically, and build high-performing inclusive teams.

Lead design and implementation of data architecture, ETL/ELT pipelines, data models, warehouses and lakes. Ensure data governance, security, cloud deployments, performance and cost optimization. Coach and manage team members, partner with stakeholders, and drive data-driven solutions for clients.

Design and implement data architecture and scalable ETL/ELT pipelines on cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP). Analyze complex problems, mentor junior staff, ensure data governance/security compliance, liaise with stakeholders, and deliver high-quality client solutions while developing technical and client-facing skills.

Own SQL and dbt-based data modeling and data quality for clinical and claims datasets. Author and refactor dbt models/tests, triage DQ alerts, design monitors, optimize SQL performance, and collaborate with Data Engineering and stakeholders to ensure trusted production datasets.

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, deploy, and operate production-grade data pipelines and data products for healthcare audiences. Design transformations, data models, and governed views using Python, SQL, Airflow, S3, Snowflake, and EMR. Implement data-quality, monitoring, and privacy-by-design controls for PHI/PII. Partner with product, analytics, and platform teams to onboard sources, support audience discovery, segmentation, activation, measurement, and troubleshoot production issues.

Lead design and hands-on delivery of a next-generation data platform and pipelines (batch, ELT, near-real-time) powering BI, experimentation, and ML. Own platform architecture, data modeling, governance, observability, and mentor engineers while modernizing legacy systems and driving AI-first data engineering practices across cross-functional teams.

As a Data Engineer, you will design and maintain data pipelines, support DoD systems, and ensure data quality and compliance.

Lead architecture and delivery of a cloud-native, petabyte-scale data platform: define technical roadmap, mentor engineers, build ETL/ELT pipelines, enable real-time streaming, implement Iceberg table format, optimize Snowflake/Redshift/Athena compute, and integrate observability with Splunk.

Design, build, and optimize scalable AWS-based data pipelines, data lakes, and warehouses. Migrate legacy systems, enforce data quality/security/governance, implement ETL/ELT and big-data solutions, adopt CI/CD and IaC, collaborate with stakeholders, and provide technical leadership and troubleshooting.

Design, build, and maintain scalable data pipelines, lakes, and infrastructure using Databricks, Spark, Python, and AWS. Collaborate with ML engineers, data scientists, and analysts to deliver data products, ensure data quality and governance, implement DevOps/SDLC practices, mentor junior engineers, and evaluate new data technologies.

Design, build, modernize, and maintain operational and analytical data capabilities for Wealthscape Reporting, Analytics and Insights. Perform solution design, data analysis, ETL development, and production rollouts using Snowflake, AWS, cloud databases, and CI/CD pipelines. Collaborate across teams in a fast-paced financial services environment.

Design, build, and maintain scalable data pipelines on AWS using EMR, Spark, and PySpark. Optimize EMR clusters and Spark jobs, implement ETL/ELT processes, ensure data quality, automate ingestion, and collaborate with data scientists and analysts. Document infrastructure, participate in code reviews, and monitor performance and costs.

Design, build, and maintain ETL/ELT data pipelines and orchestration using Airflow, Python, and PySpark. Develop custom connectors, implement DataOps and CI/CD for data workflows, monitor and troubleshoot pipelines, validate data quality, and document processes while collaborating with cross-functional teams and supporting large-scale distributed data systems.

Design, build, and maintain Keboola-based data pipelines integrating multiple business systems to deliver accurate, scalable data for supply chain, logistics, and transportation analytics; collaborate with analysts and engineers; support documentation, governance, and pipeline automation.

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.

Build and maintain production-grade data processing systems and foundational infrastructure for enterprise AI. Collaborate with researchers and engineers, deliver end-to-end implementations, transform unstructured data into performant datasets, and use distributed processing frameworks and modern analytics tooling to inform products and strategy.

Design, build, and optimize Snowflake-based data warehouses and dbt transformation pipelines. Develop scalable ETL/ELT ingestion, tune SQL and warehouse performance, implement data quality/testing (dbt tests), and maintain CI/CD and version-controlled data workflows while collaborating with analysts, data scientists, and stakeholders.

Lead design, build, and operate real-time, Flink-based streaming data platforms. Develop low-latency, stateful pipelines, enforce event schemas/contracts, ensure fault tolerance and observability, mentor engineers, and partner with architecture and compliance teams to deliver resilient streaming solutions for banking use cases.

Design, build, and maintain scalable Hadoop-based data processing pipelines and ETL for structured and unstructured data. Implement streaming and batch solutions (Spark, Storm, Kafka), integrate multiple data sources and NoSQL stores, optimize performance, define retention, and collaborate with product and data science teams in an Agile environment.

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.

Lead architecture, systems, and roadmap for Coinbase's Compliance Reporting Data Platform. Design and build production-grade data models, pipelines, quality frameworks, validations, and certification processes. Establish data contracts, monitoring, reconciliation, and audit-ready processes. Partner with engineering and compliance stakeholders, respond to regulatory exams, and mentor engineers while shaping standards and documentation.

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.