Top Senior Data Engineer Jobs in Washington, DC

As a Senior Associate in Data Engineering at PwC, you will design and implement data architecture strategies, analyze complex issues, mentor junior members, and build client relationships while ensuring adherence to project standards.

As a Senior Manager in Data Engineering, you will lead teams to design data architectures, develop data solutions, manage client engagements, and ensure compliance with data governance policies.

Own and modernize Upsides analytics data platform: migrate pipelines, reduce cost, improve governance, design reusable modeling/orchestration patterns, deliver domain-critical data products, lead cross-functional initiatives, mentor engineers, and support ML and product teams.

Design and build data infrastructure, pipelines, and integration solutions using cloud and big-data tools. Develop data lakes/warehouses, ensure data quality and security, apply data modeling and DAGs, use Databricks, Airflow, and Hadoop, and collaborate with clients to deliver actionable insights.

The Staff Data Engineer will lead design and implementation of analytics platforms and data products, collaborate cross-functionally, mentor engineers, and drive best practices at Upside.

Design, build, and automate scalable data platforms (lakehouses/warehouses). Implement and optimize ETL/ELT pipelines using Databricks and dbt, apply Medallion Architecture, manage IaC/CI-CD, ensure data security and governance, and integrate pipelines with BI tools while engaging with stakeholders.

Senior Addepar data engineer/analyst responsible for supporting and scaling Addepar integrations, building and maintaining data pipelines (Addepar↔Snowflake/Canoe/other platforms), diagnosing and resolving data quality issues, developing SQL-based reconciliations and automation, partnering with business and technology stakeholders, and supporting production operations, governance, testing, and documentation for wealth and asset management data.

Design, build, and operate large-scale data platforms and Spark/PySpark pipelines. Enable data integration, modeling, quality, and observability. Build MCP servers and AI-augmented tooling, mentor engineers, and lead cross-functional projects to deliver reliable data products.

Design, build, and maintain scalable Spark-based ETL pipelines and computed tables in a central data lake. Integrate structured and unstructured IoT, sensor, and external data for analytics, model training, and dashboards. Collaborate with Data Science, Analytics, and ML teams to ensure reliable, high-quality customer-facing datasets.

The role involves architecting and improving data systems, defining governance standards, optimizing performance, and mentoring engineers in data engineering.

Design, build, and deploy scalable data pipelines and validation for government production environments. Establish and maintain schemas, optimize SQL, handle messy/disparate data sources, work with large (100GB+) workflows, use Databricks/Spark/Python, and support ML/predictive solutions while mentoring teammates and engaging with clients. Active Secret Clearance required.

The Data Engineer role involves developing and maintaining data pipelines for forecasting in commercial real estate, ensuring data integrity and supporting analytics teams.

Lead the evolution of data platform by designing scalable pipelines, improving data processes, mentoring teams, and modernizing data architecture.

Own and architect large-scale data pipelines, orchestration, and integrations. Drive IaC strategy (Terraform), third-party API and AI/LLM tool integrations, build export pipelines and internal tooling, mentor engineers, and align cross-team technical strategy for reliable, scalable data infrastructure.

The Data Engineer will develop data pipelines, manage complex data sets, and ensure data reliability while collaborating within an Agile/Scrum team.

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 centralized pricing data infrastructure, scalable workflows, and data pipelines; integrate AI capabilities; deliver pricing tools, reporting, and governance to support data-driven pricing and budgeting across the firm.

Lead design and delivery of scalable, secure cloud data pipelines and products. Translate requirements into architecture, apply advanced data modeling (Data Vault 2.0/dimensional), embed data quality, observability, security, and DataOps/CI-CD practices, optimize performance and cost, mentor engineers, and enable AI/ML-ready datasets within an agile DevSecOps model.

Design, build, and operate scalable cloud data pipelines and platforms (Azure preferred). Implement DevSecOps, CI/CD, automated testing, monitoring, performance tuning, and production readiness. Mentor engineers, drive operational excellence, and translate requirements into robust technical designs. Apply healthcare domain knowledge and collaborate in agile teams to deliver secure, reliable data products.

The job involves building responsive web dashboards, advanced data visualizations, and analytics tools for unmanned aircraft systems, requiring a deep understanding of UI/UX design and data presentation.

Design, build, and optimize scalable Azure data platforms and lakehouse architectures. Develop ETL/ELT pipelines (PySpark, ADF, Fabric), enforce data governance and quality, enable Power BI reporting, lead cloud migration and CI/CD, and provide production support and performance tuning across enterprise data systems.

Design, build, and maintain cloud-based ELT data pipelines and analytics-ready datasets using Snowflake, dbt, and integration tools (Fivetran/Airbyte). Implement CDC and incremental loading, optimize Snowflake performance, enforce data quality and monitoring, create dimensional models for reporting, enable CI/CD for dbt projects, and collaborate with analytics and stakeholder teams to support reporting and advanced analytics.

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

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.

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.