Top Senior Data Engineer Jobs in Washington, DC

Design, build, and maintain scalable batch and streaming data pipelines, improve data modeling and governance, contribute to enterprise data architecture, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure reliable, high-quality data for analytics and operational use.

Lead design, build, optimization, and operation of scalable Databricks-based batch and streaming data pipelines for healthcare programs. Ensure DataOps, data quality, lineage, observability, CI/CD, and compliance with CMS and federal healthcare regulations. Collaborate with architects, data scientists, and stakeholders, troubleshoot production issues, and mentor junior engineers.

Design, build, and maintain an internal data platform enabling secure, governed access for engineering and analytics. Partner with architects, implement data pipelines and automations, enforce security and compliance, support platform services, recommend architecture improvements, mentor teams, and drive adoption of scalable, self-service data capabilities.

Own end-to-end client data migrations: reverse-engineer legacy ETL, design and build Airflow DAGs and Spark jobs, validate and reconcile data at scale, document architecture and decisions, and coordinate cross-functional teams through go-live and hypercare.

Lead a team of data engineers to design, build, and maintain scalable data pipelines, a Data Vault, data warehouses and marts. Own backlog, sprint planning, mentoring, stakeholder collaboration, data validation/monitoring, and platform improvements to deliver key metrics and data infrastructure across the business.

Design and own end-to-end data platform architecture, build ingestion and transformation pipelines, model multi-tenant datasets, optimize Postgres and ClickHouse performance/cost, implement orchestration and observability, define data quality and reconciliation standards, and mentor data/product engineers.

Design, implement, and manage scalable multi-cloud data platforms and ELT pipelines (AWS/Azure). Build and optimize Snowflake data models, dbt transformations, and Airflow orchestration. Define data engineering standards, enforce governance and quality, collaborate cross-functionally, and mentor global/offshore teams.

Build and maintain automated ETL/ELT data pipelines, improve data quality and monitoring, optimize Postgres and BigQuery schemas and queries, develop internal tooling, support data governance (HIPAA), participate in on-call rotation, and collaborate across engineering teams to scale data systems.

The Data Engineer will design and maintain data pipelines, enhance the data warehouse, support machine learning applications, and collaborate with various teams to leverage data effectively.

The Senior Data Engineer will build and maintain ETL/ELT pipelines, optimize SQL queries, and collaborate on machine learning workflows, driving data engineering best practices.

As a Sr. Data Engineer at Lyra Health, you will build and scale core data infrastructure, design data warehouses, and create efficient data pipelines while collaborating across departments.

The Senior Data Engineer will design and maintain data pipelines, write production-grade Python and SQL code, and support AI initiatives while collaborating across teams.

The Data Architect/Data Governance Lead supports the Medicaid Enterprise Data Warehouse by leading data architecture, metadata management, and governance processes, ensuring compliance and scalability.

In this role, you will design data architecture, lead integration strategies, mentor engineers, and drive AI infrastructure for cross-division data systems.

The Sr. Data Engineer - Databricks designs and maintains scalable data solutions using Apache Spark and Databricks, ensuring data quality and performance for analytics and reporting.

Design, build, and maintain end-to-end batch and streaming data pipelines on GCP. Migrate legacy warehouses to BigQuery/Bigtable/ClickHouse, orchestrate workflows in Airflow, ensure data quality and observability, and partner with ML engineers on feature pipelines, drift monitoring, and retraining.

Lead architecture, implementation, and optimization of scalable data platforms, ETL/ELT pipelines, and data governance. Ensure security and compliance, mentor junior engineers, drive CI/CD and IaC for data workflows, and collaborate with stakeholders to deliver actionable analytics and reporting.

Design, architect, and build scalable data platforms and pipelines (Databricks on AWS). Implement ETL and API data interfaces, optimize data infrastructure and streaming (Kafka), and improve data quality and availability. Collaborate in an agile scrum team supporting a high-visibility public-facing product. Must be a U.S. citizen eligible for Public Trust clearance.

Build and optimize ELT/ETL pipelines into ADW, implement authoritative transformations, redesign GoldenGate flows, manage materialized views and batch jobs, support historical archiving, create technical designs, develop and test modules on PaaS, recommend automation improvements, coordinate website updates, and oversee development teams.

Design, build, and maintain scalable, secure data architectures, models, and ETL pipelines. Integrate diverse data sources, optimize performance and data quality, implement governance, monitor production SLAs, and collaborate with data scientists, analysts, and product teams. Provide technical leadership, documentation, and training to improve engineering practices across the organization.

Lead a team of 5-6 data engineers to design and implement scalable data pipelines (Airflow), manage Snowflake data architecture, build real-time streaming solutions with Kafka/Spark Streaming, develop and integrate APIs, enforce code quality, and drive technical decisions and best practices.

The Senior Data Engineer will design and implement lakehouse architectures, optimize ClickHouse deployments, develop ETL/ELT pipelines, and create data models to support analytical and operational functions.

Own and evolve end-to-end data pipeline architecture across ingestion, transformation, modeling, and serving. Lead platform improvements (cost, compute efficiency, access control), CI/CD, monitoring, and incident response. Drive cross-team technical initiatives, mentor engineers, and integrate AI tooling to improve workflows while remaining hands-on building and debugging production pipelines.

Own end-to-end data pipelines (ingest, dbt transformations, BigQuery warehousing) and consolidate the analytics stack into a single source of truth. Build and maintain dbt models with tests and documentation, establish data quality and observability, own product analytics and instrumentation, partner with GTM and marketing on reporting, and prepare for high-volume/streaming ingestion.

Design, build, and maintain production-scale data systems and web-scale datasets (Spark/Flink) to support personalization ML. Drive dataset/schema design, collaborate with algorithm teams, and improve distributed big-data processing for member experience.