Top Data Engineer Jobs in Washington, DC

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.

Designs and operates scalable serverless AWS data pipelines, data models, ETL/ELT workflows, feature stores, and analytics-ready data assets. Partners with AI, Analytics, Product, and Underwriting teams to support reproducible ML training and scoring, MLOps, data quality, monitoring, governance, and production troubleshooting. The role handles sensitive healthcare and financial data, optimizes serverless workloads, supports batch and near-real-time processing, and applies infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD, documentation, and responsible data-use practices.

Design and maintain healthcare data integration pipelines, models, and validation processes for claims, billing, clinical, pharmacy, EMR, FHIR, and value-based care data. Collaborate with clients and internal analytics, product, and customer success teams to interpret data, document business rules, support implementations, and build reusable Ursa data models. Apply healthcare domain expertise, data security practices, HIPAA compliance, and appropriate judgment when using AI-assisted tools.

Design, build, and maintain scalable data pipelines and integrations across AWS, Azure, and BigQuery. Normalize, aggregate, and ensure data quality for large web and transactional datasets, leveraging APIs, ETL/orchestration tools, and big-data technologies to support analytics and BI in an e-commerce environment.

Lead performance investigations across the data product stack to diagnose and fix slow queries and UX issues. Design data architecture changes, build benchmarks, measure latency/throughput/cost (ClickHouse Cloud), prototype solutions, instrument monitoring, and partner with product and engineering to balance responsiveness, scalability, and cost.

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.

Lead design and delivery of scalable production data pipelines and data products (Spark/Python/SQL) on Databricks; integrate diverse federal health systems, define reusable ingestion patterns, ensure data quality/governance, mentor engineers, and troubleshoot/optimize production workflows.

Build and maintain scalable ETL/data pipelines and internal frameworks to support ML and product teams. Drive architecture, observability, data quality, and engineering best practices across AI/ML workflows and prompt-engineering pipelines.

Lead design, build, and operate scalable Databricks/Delta Lake data pipelines and Kimball dimensional models using dbt. Manage governance with Unity Catalog, optimize performance and cost, operationalize ML with MLflow, and coordinate/quality-check offshore vendor engineering. Mentor engineers, uphold standards, and deliver trusted data products that power analytics, reporting, and MLOps workflows.

Design, build, and operate controlled ETL/ELT pipelines and reconciliations between Delphi, ServiceNow, and PRISM. Maintain common-key mappings, enforce data-quality assertions, implement row/column access controls, manage exception queues, and produce documentation and runbooks enabling government staff to reproduce results independently.

Design, build, and operate scalable data transformation pipelines and dimensional models using dbt, SQL, and AWS. Implement infrastructure-as-code (AWS CDK), CI/CD, and query performance optimizations while ensuring data quality, governance, and collaboration with cross-functional and offshore teams.

Lead Data Engineer builds and maintains scalable data pipelines and lakehouse/warehouse platforms (Databricks) to support analytics, BI, reporting, and AI. Responsibilities include data modeling, ETL/ELT, medallion architecture, orchestration and monitoring (Airflow/Cron), performance tuning, CDC/incremental loads, data quality, and leading/mentoring a team while collaborating with stakeholders and maintaining documentation.

Architect, build, and maintain Snowflake-based ELT pipelines and production data models. Implement observability, data quality, and governance; optimize cost and freshness. Partner with Analytics, Product, and Engineering, use dbt/CI-CD and AI-assisted tooling, and participate in reviews and architecture planning to support analytics, BI, and ML.

Design and implement data federation and lakehouse architectures, build scalable ETL/ELT pipelines with Python and Spark, optimize performance across federated queries, manage Delta/Iceberg/Hudi tables, and enforce governance, security, and access controls for analytics and AI teams.

Design, build, test, and maintain high-performance Python data applications and backend services. Lead technical design, review code, mentor junior engineers, integrate with databases and cloud services, optimize performance, and ensure security, scalability, and reliability.

Design, develop, maintain, and optimize enterprise Tableau dashboards and BI solutions. Integrate and cleanse data from Oracle/Sybase/Big Data, tune SQL, automate Tableau extracts, manage Tableau Server on Linux, support testing, UAT, deployments, and troubleshoot data integrity and performance issues.

Design, build, and maintain scalable data warehouses, marts, and BI reporting; create robust data models and pipelines; perform audits and data quality tests; collaborate with cross-functional teams to provide single-source-of-truth analytics and support business decision-making. Requires active security clearance.

Own the 2-3 year architecture and reliability of high-volume catalog, pricing, and inventory ingestion. Lead migrations from legacy batch to modern systems, define data SLAs, build observability and orchestration, mentor senior engineers, and resolve cross-team, high-severity data problems.

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.

As a Data Engineering Architect, lead the transformation of data engineering into a modern platform, oversee architecture and technical leadership, design scalable systems, ensure data quality and governance, and mentor teams for a data-driven culture.

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.

As an Associate Engineer in Data Science, you will leverage data analysis and machine learning to solve complex problems and develop inspiring digital products.

Nagarro seeks an Associate Principal Engineer in Big Data to leverage extensive IT experience for strategic organizational value. The role values self-starters and innovation.

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.