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.

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 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.

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.

Design, build, and operate scalable cloud data pipelines and platforms (development through production). Embed security, automation, CI/CD and testing; monitor, tune, and resolve incidents; provide technical design, mentoring, and cross-functional collaboration to deliver reliable healthcare-focused data products.

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

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.

Lead end-to-end data engineering on GCP: design scalable data platforms and architectures (lake/lakehouse/warehouse), build and optimize BigQuery/Spark pipelines, ensure data quality/security, enable ML workflows with Data Science, mentor engineers, and own delivery and performance.

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, 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 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.