Top Senior Data Engineer Jobs in Washington, DC

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.

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

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, 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.

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.

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.

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.

Technical leader for Data Engineering responsible for designing, operating, and optimizing Snowflake-based data platforms, self-hosted orchestration (Prefect), dbt practices, AWS infrastructure, and data pipelines. Drive architecture, mentor engineers, partner cross-functionally, ensure observability and production-grade practices, and enable model-ready datasets and AI/LLM workflows.

Design, build, and optimize scalable batch and streaming data pipelines. Model and process structured and unstructured data, ensure production reliability and observability, apply ML techniques for insight extraction, and drive data strategy while adopting modern tooling and IaC practices.

Build and own data platform infrastructure and scalable pipelines (ingestion, orchestration, transformation, delivery). Define governance, observability, and AI-first architecture. Optimize performance, ensure data quality, mentor engineers, and integrate AI-assisted tooling.

Own and evolve the data platform: architect, build, and maintain data models, pipelines, and access layers. Ensure data quality, governance, and reliability; monitor and optimize infrastructure; provide technical leadership, code reviews, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver scalable data solutions for operations and analytics.

Lead technical design and hands-on development of Pantheon’s data platform, extending ingestion, curation, retention services and ML/LLM infrastructure. Mentor engineers, drive architecture and engineering standards, operate in a DevOps model, partner cross-functionally, and participate in on-call support to ensure reliable, compliant data access and analytics.

The Senior Data Engineer will design and build scalable data platforms, handle automation for data operations, and ensure reliability and performance of data pipelines while collaborating with various teams.

Build end-to-end data and analytics features: ingest and model data, build transformations and pipelines, create client-facing dashboards and interfaces, and develop LLM-powered workflows to accelerate analysis and app development. Partner with stakeholders, perform exploratory analyses, and ensure data quality, observability, and maintainability while influencing data engineering strategy.

Design, build, and maintain scalable distributed data pipelines and a secure data lakehouse for streaming and batch processing to support real-time analytics, ML, and experimentation. Automate, test, and harden workflows, architect logical and physical data models, build ML model features, and collaborate with product, analytics, and data science teams to turn data into value.

Build and operate ingestion and transformation pipelines, model and test core warehouse data, enable analytics and reporting, and maintain ML data infrastructure feeding matching and recommendation models. Partner with Engineering, Product, and Data Science to ensure reliable, documented, and trusted data at scale.