Top Data Engineer Jobs in Washington, DC

Designs, develops, validates, and documents analytics data solutions for diverse client environments. Builds Snowflake, SQL, dbt, and AWS ingestion and transformation pipelines; monitors data quality and performance; troubleshoots complex technology issues; and supports reporting and business insights. Manages project scope, budgets, documentation, governance, client communication, implementation planning, and quality assurance while collaborating across teams and identifying opportunities for additional solutions.

Architects, deploys, and operates scalable data platform infrastructure supporting analytics. Responsibilities include administering Airflow and Superset, managing Terraform infrastructure, building CI/CD pipelines, implementing security and compliance controls, developing dbt data models, cataloging assets in OpenMetadata, automating with Python, and mentoring engineers. The role requires extensive infrastructure and data engineering experience, cloud expertise, container orchestration, and eligibility for CJIS clearance.

Collect, clean, transform, validate, and model structured and unstructured data. Build and maintain reliable datasets and analytics pipelines, apply foundational data mining, NLP, and machine learning techniques, troubleshoot workflows, visualize findings, and support senior data scientists with data-quality governance and automated reporting.

Build, test, maintain, and improve data pipelines, data models, and ETL/ELT processes supporting firm analytics and reporting. Ensure data accuracy, reliability, governance, monitoring, and observability while troubleshooting quality issues. Collaborate with data engineers, product owners, and business stakeholders; document pipelines and schemas; participate in Agile ceremonies; and use Git for code changes. The role also supports data modernization and may involve cloud data platforms, orchestration tools, and AI/LLM technologies.

Designs scalable data architectures, ELT/ETL pipelines, data models, quality frameworks, and self-service data platforms. Partners with engineering, product, program, leadership, and data science teams to translate business needs into technical solutions. The role includes end-to-end technical ownership, large-scale batch and streaming data processing, mentoring junior engineers, system optimization, and on-call support for platform stability.

Build and maintain reliable data pipelines, computed tables, and scalable data models using SparkSQL and PySpark. Integrate IoT, product, customer, external, unstructured, and ML-related data into a central data lake for analytics, causal inference, model training, and dashboards. Ensure high data quality and uptime while collaborating with data science, analytics, AI/ML, and engineering teams.

Develops and maintains secure data pipelines, ETL/ELT workflows, data transformations, and analytics-ready datasets. Processes structured and unstructured data using platforms such as Databricks, Spark, Palantir Foundry, and Maven Smart Systems. Applies data validation, modeling, and quality practices while collaborating with data scientists, engineers, and mission stakeholders. The role requires onsite work in a SCIF and an active U.S. government security clearance.

Own Eve’s data platform end to end, including ingestion, orchestration, incremental dbt models, Snowflake administration, Terraform infrastructure, observability, access controls, and pipeline reliability. Build schema-change detection, freshness SLAs, CI environments, and incident processes while managing performance and compute costs. Partner with analytics engineers and stakeholders to maintain trusted data for reporting and AI systems, using AI-assisted development and documenting platform standards.

Builds data ingestion, integration, transformation, modeling, and quality frameworks for DHS financial management programs. The role uses SQL, Python, R, PySpark, and Databricks to analyze large datasets, develop predictive and machine learning models, support data governance, and generate decision-making insights. Responsibilities also include client meetings, documentation, presentations, client service, and business development support.

Designs, builds, operates, and modernizes secure ETL/ELT data pipelines for public health interoperability. Responsibilities include using NiFi, Kafka, Python, and SQL; deploying pipelines on Azure or AWS; implementing CI/CD with GitHub Actions; monitoring with Grafana; troubleshooting production systems; supporting legacy migrations; and ensuring data security, compliance, scalability, and reliability. The role collaborates with architects, integration engineers, data scientists, DevOps/SRE, and product teams.

The AVP, Data Engineer will design and build data ingestion, transformation, and replication pipelines using SQL, Python, dbt, and Dagster. Responsibilities include translating requirements into technical designs, developing data products, debugging production issues, supporting testing, and improving data engineering practices. The role also involves data modeling, mentoring junior engineers, conducting code reviews, and providing technical leadership while remaining hands-on. Experience with modern data platforms, workflow orchestration, cloud ecosystems, and insurance or financial services is preferred.

Leads data architecture and engineering modernization across business domains. Designs and implements complex pipelines, integrations, data models, and orchestration using Snowflake, AWS, and Airflow. Establishes data quality, governance, security, testing, observability, CI/CD, and reliability practices. Provides architectural guidance, evaluates technical solutions, leads cross-team initiatives, mentors engineers, and improves platform performance and cost efficiency.

Build and maintain production ETL pipelines for structured and unstructured data, integrate machine learning models for enrichment, develop data transformations and quality monitoring, design warehouses and dimensional models, establish governance frameworks, and contribute to data architecture and platform improvements. Collaborate with data scientists, analysts, and engineering teams to deliver reliable, actionable intelligence.

Leads the architecture, development, and production operation of complex data pipelines and platforms. Resolves scalability, data quality, reliability, and architectural challenges; evaluates data technologies; mentors engineers; establishes engineering standards; partners with product, analytics, and operations teams; communicates technical trade-offs; and conducts proofs of concept to guide platform strategy.

Designs and optimizes Power BI dashboards, semantic models, datasets, DAX measures, and reporting solutions for identity governance and administration analytics. Partners with ETL engineers and stakeholders to validate Parquet data from Azure Synapse and SailPoint sources, establish data-quality checks, monitor refreshes, define KPIs, and document data lineage. Supports compliance reporting, access governance, audit readiness, certification metrics, and Zero Trust analytics.

Build and maintain scalable Snowflake-based ELT/ETL pipelines, production data models, and observability frameworks. Translate business requirements into reliable solutions supporting analytics, BI, and ML. Establish data quality, governance, lineage, security, and compliance practices while optimizing warehouse performance, cost, and data freshness. Collaborate with Analytics, Product, and Engineering teams, contribute to architecture decisions, evaluate Snowflake tooling, and use AI-assisted development tools to accelerate delivery.

Designs, builds, and optimizes scalable data collection, storage, access, and analytics systems. Creates and automates reliable data pipelines, supports data quality and governance, ensures SLA and performance compliance, and monitors pipeline operations. The role requires collaboration with analytics, business, and customer teams, with potential work involving AI/ML pipelines, Databricks, DevOps practices, streaming data, and event-driven architectures.

Build and maintain scalable batch and incremental data pipelines using Python, SQL, and Snowflake. Develop data warehouse models, transformations, automation, quality checks, lineage, alerting, and performance optimizations. Collaborate with analysts, data scientists, and application teams to deliver trusted datasets, while documenting pipelines, schemas, and data contracts.

Build and maintain scalable batch and incremental data pipelines using Python, SQL, and Snowflake. Develop warehouse models, transformations, automation, data quality checks, lineage, alerting, and performance optimizations. Collaborate with analysts, data scientists, and application teams to deliver trusted datasets, while documenting pipelines, schemas, and data contracts.

Designs and maintains a scalable data platform supporting analytics, machine learning, and AI workloads. Builds tooling for reliable data pipelines, semantic layers, data agents, LLM applications, and evaluation systems. Ensures data quality, availability, observability, and reliability while establishing modeling, testing, and platform best practices. Collaborates with Data Science and Product Engineering, leads solutions from design through implementation, and contributes individually in a fast-paced startup environment.

Build, test, and maintain batch and event-driven data pipelines and ETL/ELT workflows. Transform and validate large datasets, troubleshoot data-quality issues, improve workflow reliability, and support platform modernization. Collaborate with engineering, product, and data stakeholders while following strong practices for version control, testing, monitoring, documentation, and code review. The role may occasionally require work outside standard business hours.

Design, build, and optimize scalable data pipelines using Databricks, PySpark, SQL, Delta Lake, and lakehouse architecture. Collaborate with analytics, product, and engineering teams while developing batch and streaming workflows, integrating data warehouse systems, and using cloud platforms and orchestration tools such as Azure, Airflow, ADF, or Prefect.

Own EULER’s data lifecycle, including instrumentation, validation, reconciliation, privacy, anonymization, canonical data modeling, analytics datasets, documentation, and production pipelines. The role requires strong SQL, software engineering practices, independent ownership, skepticism toward data quality, and clear communication. Preferred experience includes GDPR/LGPD, multi-tenant B2B SaaS, dbt, statistics, Cloudflare Workers, Postgres, Parquet, DuckDB, and Bubble.

Develop and maintain scalable data pipelines, ETL/ELT processes, APIs, data models, and analytics datasets using Python, SQL, Spark, and Databricks. Integrate sensitive federal health, financial, and operational data while implementing validation, governance, testing, documentation, and performance optimization. Collaborate with engineers, architects, analysts, and stakeholders to deliver reliable data products and resolve technical data needs.

Build and maintain scalable batch and streaming data pipelines, analytics warehouses, transformation layers, and dimensional data models. Perform SQL-based analysis, support dashboards and reporting, monitor data quality and delivery SLAs, troubleshoot incidents, and improve operational reliability. Collaborate with engineers, analysts, data scientists, and business stakeholders while contributing to documentation, governance, observability, and automation.