Top Senior Data Engineer Jobs in Washington, DC

Design and maintain data systems for business-critical insights, connect data across platforms, build ETLs, and support business data decisions.

The Data Engineer builds and maintains data infrastructure, develops data pipelines, ensures data quality, and collaborates with teams for insights.

The Senior Data Analytics Engineer will develop data pipelines, support data-driven decision-making, collaborate with stakeholders, and improve data quality and processes.

As a Senior Data Engineer, you will design and maintain scalable data pipelines, focusing on architecture, ingestion, storage, and analytics on GCP. You'll collaborate with stakeholders and optimize data structures for performance while ensuring adherence to data governance and compliance standards.

Design, build, and own end-to-end data systems and pipelines powering payments, fraud response, and reporting. Implement streaming and batch integrations, APIs, and workflow orchestration. Define data correctness with monitoring, alerting, and tests. Create reusable patterns and collaborate with stakeholders to clarify requirements and tradeoffs.

As a Senior Data & Analytics Engineer, you'll lead data initiatives, manage a team, and ensure data quality while turning insights into actionable decisions across the company.

Lead Data Engineer responsible for defining architecture, engineering standards, and best practices for the enterprise data platform, collaborating with distributed teams for modernization and scalability.

As a Senior Data Engineer, you'll design and maintain scalable data pipelines, optimize workflows with dbt and Snowflake, and mentor teams across functions to enhance data reliability and performance.

Design and maintain a dbt-based business data layer for GTM metrics, centralize and reconcile multi-source data, implement automated data quality and reconciliation checks, align and document metrics with stakeholders, mentor analytics team, and lead root-cause investigations into complex data anomalies.

Lead and mentor a distributed data engineering team while architecting and building a next-generation, largely open-source data platform. Own hands-on POCs, pipeline design, schema and query optimization, ETL reliability, observability, testing, and CI/CD. Evaluate and recommend technologies, drive migration from vendor lock-in, and translate advertising and market research needs into robust technical solutions.

Lead design and ownership of a modern data platform: ingestion, Snowflake governance, pipeline reliability, migrations, data contracts, observability, and AI-enabled tooling. Partner with Analytics, Engineering, and vendors to deliver trustworthy data products and operate production pipelines.

Own and operate Databricks production pipelines for Sugar Predict: monitor, alert, incident response, SLA reporting, performance and cost optimizations, migrate legacy ETL, onboard tenants, enforce Delta Lake architecture and multi-tenant isolation, apply security and governance, enable observability, maintain runbooks, and support CI/CD and on-call rotations.

Own day-to-day Snowflake administration and the Sigma semantic layer; manage ingestion (Fivetran), dbt modeling scope, reverse-ETL to Salesforce/HubSpot/NetSuite, data quality SLAs, reporting and dashboards, partner with managed data vendors, design automation and reproducible month-end financial analytics, and drive analysis and experiments for AdOps, Sales, and Finance.

Own and operate the Snowflake warehouse and Sigma semantic layer; manage ingestion (Fivetran), dbt model scoping and review, reverse-ETL, data quality SLAs, dashboards, month-end financial analytics, vendor management, and automation to support AdOps, Sales, Finance, and executive reporting.

Design, build, and maintain scalable ETL/ELT data pipelines and data platform architecture. Build programmatic pipelines (primarily Python), optimize analytical data models (SQL), integrate sources into Snowflake, use orchestration/transformation tools (dbt, Airflow, Dagster), improve data quality/observability, and partner with product, engineering, and analytics to deliver reliable data for decision-making.

Own and scale Provable's data platform on GCP: build and optimize ingestion pipelines from blockchain indexers, design privacy-aware data models, manage Postgres and BigQuery, develop high-performance data-serving APIs, ensure data quality and observability, and use IaC (Terraform, Helm) and Kubernetes to deploy and cost-optimize environments.

The Senior Data Engineer will design and implement data processing pipelines using Java and Spark, optimize performance, and mentor junior engineers while ensuring compliance with data governance standards.

Hands-on data and integration engineer responsible for building, supporting, and automating Canoe-related workflows and integrations. Develop and maintain data pipelines, SQL queries, validations, reconciliations, and monitoring to deliver alternative investment data to Snowflake, Addepar, reporting tools, and downstream systems. Troubleshoot data quality issues, support production feeds, manage exceptions, document mappings and runbooks, and collaborate with investment, reporting, technology, and vendor teams. Hybrid role requiring Baltimore office presence three days per week.

Founding data engineer to design and build Payabli's data platform: architect lakehouse/warehouse, build batch and streaming pipelines, model canonical datasets, ensure data quality/observability, enforce access/masking/lineage for regulated financial data, and enable analytics/ML feature pipelines while establishing team standards and CI/CD.

The role involves building and optimizing data pipelines, modeling datasets, applying machine learning techniques, and supporting data strategies. Candidates should have experience with Python, data lakes, warehousing, and related technologies.

Design, build, and maintain scalable data pipelines, data models, ETL/ELT, and BI solutions. Collaborate with data scientists and stakeholders to improve data quality, accessibility, and PHI security. Develop and document workflows, optimize processing/storage, support data warehouse and visualization, and adopt AI tools to drive data-informed outcomes.

Build and maintain production data pipelines and foundations for People Analytics and AI-driven tools. Integrate HR systems (Workday, Greenhouse), design data models, ensure governance for sensitive employee data, support data science and reporting, and deliver dashboards and Streamlit apps. Optimize queries, enable LLM consumption with quality and latency controls, and collaborate cross-functionally to transition AI prototypes to production.

Design, build, and maintain dbt data models and scalable ELT pipelines; optimize performance-aware SQL on Snowflake; ensure observability, testing, and CI/CD; partner with product and engineering teams to meet analytic needs, mentor engineers, document business logic, and troubleshoot ingestion, transformation, and warehouse issues.

The Senior Data Engineer will construct and optimize data pipelines, work with cross-functional teams, ensure data quality and governance, and mentor junior engineers while leading advanced analytics initiatives.

Design, build, operate, and optimize large-scale data pipelines and foundational data products for Komodo's Healthcare Map. Improve pipeline reliability, observability, and performance; transform claims and EHR datasets; implement data quality, lineage, and monitoring; debug production workflows; collaborate with product and engineering teams; and enable downstream analytics and AI/ML use cases.