Top Entry Level Data Engineer Jobs in Washington, DC

Build and maintain Databricks data pipelines across bronze, silver, and gold layers. Ingest APIs, logs, billing exports, and reference data; implement attribution logic, governance, data quality monitoring, and cost optimization. Manage Unity Catalog permissions, lineage, refresh schedules, incremental processing, and CI/CD workflows while supporting multi-cloud storage and high-volume caller-identity data.

Build and maintain full-stack data engineering solutions supporting BioIntelliSense’s remote patient monitoring and clinical intelligence platform. The role likely involves processing health-monitoring data, enabling analytics, and supporting reporting for clinicians, patients, and employers. Specific responsibilities and qualifications are not provided in the description.

Design and deliver cloud-native data platforms, scalable big data pipelines, lakehouses, warehouses, transformation frameworks, BI solutions, and ML-enabled data workflows. Lead client-facing pre-sales engagements, technical workshops, proof-of-concepts, executive conversations, and enterprise data modernization initiatives. Build reusable architectural IP, influence senior stakeholders, and translate ambiguous business challenges into production-ready solutions using AWS and modern data technologies.

Own production data ingestion pipelines for healthcare and benefits data, including normalization, mapping, validation, reconciliation, observability, and secure handling of sensitive information. Unify census data processes, scale the platform, improve identity matching, and build automation and TypeScript tooling. The role requires strong Python and SQL skills, production orchestration experience, reliable testing and data-quality practices, and effective communication with technical and nontechnical stakeholders.

Supports ETL pipeline development, legacy data migration, data transformation, validation, profiling, cleaning, and integration for a secure DEA modernization program. Collaborates with technical and business teams, monitors pipeline performance, troubleshoots issues, documents data flows and migration results, and participates in Agile development activities under senior engineer guidance.

Build and operate large-scale data pipelines, web-scraping systems, and data-collection tools for AI datasets. Maintain analytical databases, optimize queries, troubleshoot pipeline and data-quality issues, manage containerized workloads across Kubernetes and Linux infrastructure, and support CI/CD workflows. The role also involves documenting technical processes, researching improvements, and developing scalable APIs in a fully remote environment.

Design, build, and maintain scalable big data pipelines, architectures, distributed databases, and storage systems. Use Python and frameworks such as Hadoop, Spark, or Flink for data integration, transformation, and processing. Ensure system performance, availability, security, governance, and data quality while collaborating with cross-functional teams and documenting technical solutions.

Build and maintain Google Cloud data pipelines and ETL/ELT processes supporting GenAI and RAG solutions. Classify and govern sensitive data using Dataplex and Cloud DLP, enforce access controls, assess AI readiness, and design reusable schemas and data models. Collaborate with engineering, delivery, and client teams to integrate legacy systems, monitor pipeline reliability, conduct data quality testing, document data flows, and proactively identify compliance and delivery risks.

Clean and reconcile employee master data and historical leave records from multiple sources. Define standardized HR data structures, establish validation and access controls, and automate leave request, approval, and balance tracking workflows using Google Workspace or a suitable alternative. Document maintenance processes and support potential expansion across international branches. The contractor will independently manage the fixed-scope project, propose an RFQ, and provide timeline, hours, costs, assumptions, and deliverables.

Designs and maintains scalable data pipelines using Databricks, Spark, and cloud services. Builds transformation workflows, integrates APIs, databases, and cloud storage, and supports analytics and reporting. Implements data validation, monitoring, observability, governance, security, and automation. Collaborates with data science, analytics, and business teams to deliver reliable data solutions in AWS and other cloud environments.

Designs, builds, and maintains scalable batch and streaming data pipelines and datasets in Databricks using Python, Spark, and SQL. Supports SQL Server, SSIS, SSRS, and data warehousing environments while improving performance, reliability, data quality, and scalability. Integrates enterprise data sources, enables reporting and AI/ML workloads, and partners with business and IT teams to deliver technical data solutions.

Designs, builds, and maintains scalable batch and streaming data pipelines and datasets in Databricks using Python, Spark, SQL, and Delta Lake. Supports SQL Server, SSIS, and SSRS environments while improving performance, reliability, data quality, and scalability. Integrates enterprise data sources, applies data warehousing practices, and partners with business users, analysts, and IT teams to deliver reporting, analytics, and AI/ML solutions.

Build and manage end-to-end marketing data platforms on Google Cloud. Responsibilities include configuring GA4 and Google Tag Manager, creating BigQuery ingestion pipelines, managing Cloud Functions, Pub/Sub, IAM, and service accounts, developing LookML semantic models and dashboards, and orchestrating ETL and reverse ETL workflows. The role also supports CDP integrations, identity resolution, audience syncing, experimentation, data quality assurance, and lifecycle marketing analytics.

Develop and design data pipelines, optimize data delivery and automate processes to support end-to-end solutions in various settings.

Build and maintain production-grade dbt data models and pipelines across ingestion, transformation, and visualization. Develop reliable datasets supporting reporting, analysis, finance, revenue recognition, and company decision-making. Collaborate with Finance, Engineering, Sales, Product, and Marketing to understand data needs, improve manual workflows, validate data accuracy, and create scalable solutions using modern data tools.

The ClaimsXM Data Engineer III role has limited responsibilities listed. The position requires U.S. citizenship or naturalized citizenship and requires all work to be completed within the continental United States, Alaska, or Hawaii.

The DMS Data Engineer is responsible for analyzing raw data, building data systems and pipelines, conducting complex data analyses, and collaborating on projects to enhance data quality and reliability.

Collects, consolidates, cleans, analyzes, and visualizes experimental data from analytical equipment, test rigs, and pilot plants. Performs statistical analysis, anomaly detection, experimental design support, equipment validation, and QA/QC activities. Presents findings to technical leadership, identifies process improvements, and helps extract actionable insights from structured and spectral data.

Owns analytics datasets and data products for Netflix’s cloud games infrastructure. Builds scalable pipelines, data models, metrics, dashboards, tooling, and self-service assets from massive telemetry data. Partners with infrastructure engineering, data engineering, and data science teams to improve quality of experience, capacity, and utilization insights. Responsibilities include telemetry and logging, visualization, trustworthy documentation, scalable data solutions, and independently prioritizing high-impact investments.

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