Top Data Engineer Jobs in Washington, DC

Design, build, and maintain cloud-based data pipelines and services using Python and AWS Lambda. Work with distributed computing frameworks and various data stores (Postgres, S3, Redshift, MongoDB/DynamoDB, Redis, Elasticsearch/OpenSearch). Operate in Linux/Unix environments, follow Agile practices, and collaborate via Jira and Confluence. Must hold an active Top-Secret/SCI clearance.

Design, build, and maintain Data Vault 2.0 data warehouse and Power BI solutions. Develop ETL pipelines, data models, reusable datasets, and data governance. Perform profiling, cleansing, migrations, and collaborate with infrastructure teams to optimize data delivery, automation, and reporting.

Own and maintain the companys data infrastructure and pipelines. Design, build, and monitor ETL/ELT workflows and data architecture; integrate SaaS sources; enforce data quality, standards, and governance; partner with stakeholders to deliver analytics-ready data and meet data availability SLAs.

Owner of data platform modernization: design and migrate legacy systems to Kimball-style dimensional models and star schemas; build reliable production data pipelines; enforce data hygiene and validation; champion dbt best practices; mentor junior engineers; collaborate with analysts and stakeholders to ensure scalable, well-documented data models and platform observability.

Build and maintain data pipelines, transform large datasets for analytics, enforce data quality and monitoring, document semantic context, and collaborate with product and engineering to power customer-facing data services.

Design and maintain ELT/ETL pipelines and cloud data warehouse models, build Power BI reports, apply AI tools to accelerate data workflows, and partner with business stakeholders to deliver reliable analytics and data governance.

As the first in-house Data Engineer, you will own the data infrastructure, build and maintain data pipelines, and collaborate with teams to ensure quality data access and insights.

Design, build, and maintain scalable Spark-based ETL pipelines and computed tables in a central data lake. Integrate structured and unstructured IoT, sensor, and external data for analytics, model training, and dashboards. Collaborate with Data Science, Analytics, and ML teams to ensure reliable, high-quality customer-facing datasets.

Design, develop, test, maintain, and support secure, scalable data solutions using Snowflake and Databricks. Lead technical design, author specifications, review code, mentor engineers, ensure SDLC, audit/security compliance, and drive technical strategy while collaborating with architects and business partners. Participate in Agile ceremonies, be on-call as needed, and travel occasionally.

Design, build, and maintain scalable ETL/ELT pipelines ingesting travel-related data from multiple sources. Integrate and model data in cloud warehouses (Snowflake/BigQuery/Redshift), implement data quality and monitoring, support real-time streaming, and ensure data governance and regulatory compliance. Collaborate with analysts, data scientists, and product teams to deliver reliable datasets for personalization, forecasting, and optimization.

Design, implement, and optimize Snowflake data storage and ETL solutions. Write and tune SQL, integrate data sources and BI tools, ensure data security and compliance, and collaborate with teams to meet business objectives.

Design, build, and operate large-scale data platforms and Spark/PySpark pipelines. Enable data integration, modeling, quality, and observability. Build MCP servers and AI-augmented tooling, mentor engineers, and lead cross-functional projects to deliver reliable data products.

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.

Build and operate data-intensive web products and APIs, extend high-throughput ETL pipelines and scrapers, ensure reliability/observability, design self-scaling services, participate in code review, and collaborate across product, data, and infrastructure teams to meet production SLAs.

Develop and maintain Python-based data applications and pipelines: fetch data from databases/APIs/files, build Pandas DataFrames/NumPy arrays, write complex SQL and data transformations, handle nested JSON, and collaborate with data science teams to deliver production data platforms.

As a Data Engineer, you will build and optimize data pipelines, ensuring accurate data delivery that informs pricing and market analytics at Alt.

Build and maintain ETL/ELT pipelines, ingest and transform structured and unstructured data, integrate APIs and external sources, improve data quality and monitoring, support dashboards and ML pipelines, optimize warehouse and cloud performance, and contribute to data governance and documentation.

The Senior Bioinformatics Data Engineer will build data pipelines, implement clinical data ingestion, and optimize platform infrastructure while ensuring data quality and compliance with legal standards.

The Data Engineer will build and maintain scalable data pipelines, improve ETL processes, collaborate with AI/ML teams, and contribute to engineering culture.

The Senior IT Data Engineer will design and implement enterprise data architectures, develop scalable ETL/ELT pipelines, and support data-driven initiatives for the Federal Reserve Board.

The Data Engineer will design, build, and deploy scalable data solutions, optimize data flows, and implement ETL processes, leveraging various cloud platforms and technologies.

Design, build, and maintain end-to-end data pipelines and ETL/ELT for healthcare data using Snowflake, dbt, Python, and SQL. Ensure data quality, monitor production jobs, troubleshoot anomalies, write dbt models and tests, collaborate with Analytics/Operations/Clinical teams, and participate in Agile processes with GitLab and Jira.

Design, build, and maintain ingestion and transformation pipelines for a knowledge-graph analytics platform. Profile and prepare structured and semi-structured source data, ensure data lineage and traceability, implement transformation logic for graph loading, collaborate with data scientists on graph modeling and entity resolution, improve pipeline reliability, and document ingestion patterns using version control and issue tracking.

The job involves leveraging AWS and Snowflake for data engineering tasks within a technology-focused company, requiring US residency.

Design, build, and maintain cloud-native data pipelines (Ingest→Transform→Expose) using Airflow, Spark, dbt, and Iceberg. Ingest and normalize HL7/FHIR/OMOP and other structured/unstructured data for analytics and AI, implement schema versioning and governance, ensure interoperability and compliance with DoD Responsible AI and NIST frameworks, and collaborate with DevSecOps and Data Science teams to deliver production-ready datasets.