Top Senior Data Engineer Jobs in Wilmington, NC

As the founding engineer of the Data Intelligence team, you will design semantic layers, develop AI tooling, and automate data processes to drive business insights.

The Senior Data Engineer will design and implement scalable data models in BigQuery using dbt for analytics and reporting, ensuring data governance and optimal performance.

As a Senior Data Engineer at Jellyfish, you'll build and maintain data pipelines, optimize orchestration, automate CI/CD processes, and enhance data integration while ensuring high performance and reliability.

Lead design and operation of large-scale data pipelines and data APIs. Build Spark/PySpark workflows on Databricks, optimize job performance, manage data quality and observability, and develop MCP servers and AI-agent integrations. Mentor engineers, define standards, support production incidents and on-call rotations, and collaborate with stakeholders to deliver scalable data platform products.

Lead architecture and buildout of a new graph-backed enterprise data platform: design ingestion, graph and relational storage, entity resolution pipelines, temporal models, ETL/ELT pipelines, governance, APIs, and production connectors. Ship scalable graph data models, traversal queries, and platform roadmap while enabling observability, security, and containerized deployments.

Lead architecture and reliability of the data platform, build and harden ingestion (batch and CDC), own BigQuery+dbt transformations, establish testing/observability/governance, mentor engineers, develop Python tooling and APIs, run POCs for lakehouse/open table formats, and define AI-assisted development practices.

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.

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.

The role involves architecting and improving data systems, defining governance standards, optimizing performance, and mentoring engineers in data engineering.

Design, develop, and maintain enterprise data integration (ETL) systems and data platforms. Lead technical designs, optimize performance and scalability, support production issues and off-hours rotations, build reporting and BI solutions, document data processes, and collaborate with stakeholders and vendors to align business requirements.

Design, develop, and optimize ETL/data integration, data platforms, and BI solutions. Lead technical designs, troubleshoot production issues, participate in on-call support, and document processes to ensure scalable, secure, high-performance enterprise data solutions.

Design, build, and optimize scalable ETL/ELT data pipelines using Databricks and cloud platforms. Implement data quality checks, monitor and troubleshoot jobs, audit pipelines for compliance, and collaborate with analysts and business stakeholders to define data models and support reporting.

Senior Exasol data engineer to design, build, optimize, and validate SQL-based data pipelines for healthcare analytics. Responsibilities include complex query tuning, extracting/staging from SQL Server, chart validation, applying clinical terminologies, quality measure development, and maintaining disciplined version-controlled engineering practices.

Lead the evolution of data platform by designing scalable pipelines, improving data processes, mentoring teams, and modernizing data architecture.

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.

Lead design and development of web UI and REST middleware within an Agile team. Define requirements and acceptance criteria, implement Java/Spring and Angular solutions, build CI/CD pipelines, work with Product Owner and testers, and produce/update design documentation.

Own SQL and dbt-based data modeling and data quality for clinical and claims datasets. Author and refactor dbt models/tests, triage DQ alerts, design monitors, optimize SQL performance, and collaborate with Data Engineering and stakeholders to ensure trusted production datasets.

Design, build, and own Sardine's internal data platform and billing infrastructure. Implement and maintain ETL/ELT pipelines, warehouse partitioning, access controls, and data governance. Partner with stakeholders to define KPIs, produce dashboards, and ensure data quality for executive, GTM, product, and finance teams.

Design, build, and maintain enterprise data warehouse and medallion-layer dbt Core models. Integrate MDM workflows, develop scalable pipelines using Microsoft Fabric/Azure Data Factory, optimize Snowflake performance, ensure data quality, support CI/CD and monitoring, troubleshoot production issues, and collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders to deliver analytics-ready datasets.

Design, develop, and support the Data Warehouse and reporting systems. Build and optimize SSRS reports, Power BI dashboards, and SQL ETL/queries. Ensure data accuracy, maintain documentation, and mentor team members while collaborating with business units to translate requirements into scalable data solutions.

Build and maintain low-latency, highly available distributed data systems and services to deliver high-quality data for product, analytics, and ML. Partner with data scientists and product teams to design scalable, observable, multi-tenant data products using batch and real-time processing frameworks. Ensure 24x7 reliability, monitoring, and operational excellence while owning end-to-end delivery.

Design, build, and own large-scale batch and streaming data pipelines and core Ads data products. Collaborate with analytics, data science, and engineering teams to model, transform, govern, and deliver high-quality ad datasets for analysis, ML, and reporting while ensuring privacy compliance.

Build and maintain scalable batch and real-time data pipelines, model data to power analytics and ML, and operate distributed data systems. Collaborate with business, engineering, and data science teams to ensure data quality, documentation, and debugging while adopting new technologies and working in an ambiguous, fast-changing environment.

Build and maintain centralized pricing data infrastructure, scalable workflows, and data pipelines; integrate AI capabilities; deliver pricing tools, reporting, and governance to support data-driven pricing and budgeting across the firm.

Design, build, and optimize scalable Azure data platforms and lakehouse architectures. Develop ETL/ELT pipelines (PySpark/Spark SQL), enable Power BI datasets, implement CI/CD and IaC, ensure data governance/quality with Purview, support cloud migrations and production operations while collaborating with stakeholders and agile teams.