Top Senior Data Engineer Jobs in Austin, TX

Design, implement, and manage advanced data ecosystems and scalable ETL/ELT pipelines. Analyze complex problems, deliver data warehousing and governance solutions, mentor junior staff, and build client relationships while maintaining high standards and business-context awareness.

Lead design and implementation of enterprise data architecture and cloud-based data solutions. Manage large data engineering projects, develop data models and pipelines, ensure governance and security compliance, advise clients strategically, and build high-performing inclusive teams.

Build and operate scalable data pipelines and trustworthy data models supporting Layla’s AI-powered travel products. Own data quality, reliability, observability, experimentation, and model-evaluation foundations. Enable production AI/ML systems through feature and data availability, evaluation datasets, and monitoring. Partner with Product, Analytics, and ML teams to deliver dependable insights, establish engineering best practices, and mentor other engineers.

Designs, builds, and optimizes enterprise data pipelines, architectures, and applications supporting financial consolidation, planning, forecasting, reporting, and analytics. Develops ETL/ELT workflows, data models, quality checks, dashboards, and integrations across cloud and relational platforms. Manages projects, partners with Finance and technology teams, improves processes, mentors junior staff, contributes to Agile planning, and evaluates emerging AI and data technologies. Rotational after-hours on-call availability may be required.

Lead data engineering initiatives supporting analytics, machine learning, and business intelligence teams. Design complex data warehouse and data lake models, manage large-scale SQL and Python ETL/ELT pipelines, maintain data quality and lifecycle standards, and translate strategic priorities into actionable projects. Provide technical leadership, mentorship, architectural guidance, project planning, and cross-functional collaboration with product, infrastructure, and architecture teams.

Design and develop scalable data pipelines, data models, schemas, and integrations for a video advertising platform. Collaborate across engineering, define user stories, deliver features using AI-assisted tools, write unit tests, maintain code quality, and support production systems on a rotating schedule. The role requires strong SQL, ETL/ELT, dbt, Airflow, Snowflake, AWS, and data architecture expertise.

Lead the architecture and development of scalable AWS-based data ingestion, transformation, and orchestration pipelines. Build reliable data infrastructure using Python, SQL, Airflow, Lambda, ECS, SQS, and Terraform. Establish data modeling, quality, lineage, monitoring, testing, and observability practices while partnering with analysts, scientists, and backend engineers. Mentor senior engineers, guide technical decisions, and provide hands-on leadership for complex data platform initiatives.

Staff Data Engineer will set technical direction and build Eve’s scalable data platform. Responsibilities include Snowflake administration, role-based access, governance, ingestion, dbt modeling and orchestration, Terraform infrastructure, observability, schema change detection, reliability practices, and CI standards. The role also mentors engineers and analysts, supports AI-assisted development, and establishes secure, reliable workflows for product, case, customer, and go-to-market data.

Own Eve’s data platform end to end, including ingestion, orchestration, incremental dbt models, Snowflake administration, Terraform infrastructure, observability, access controls, and pipeline reliability. Build schema-change detection, freshness SLAs, CI environments, and incident processes while managing performance and compute costs. Partner with analytics engineers and stakeholders to maintain trusted data for reporting and AI systems, using AI-assisted development and documenting platform standards.

Build and maintain Databricks-based data platforms, including ingestion, transformation, storage, governance, data modeling, and serving pipelines. Establish medallion architecture standards, canonical data models, quality controls, lineage, schema evolution, and reliable batch or incremental processing. Improve pipeline observability, scalability, idempotency, and recoverability while moving curated data to systems such as ClickHouse. Collaborate across application and analytics teams to create durable, governed production datasets.

Lead the architecture, development, and productionization of scalable data pipelines and governed data products in Databricks. Transform heterogeneous source data for analytics, AI, and machine learning; establish data quality, observability, governance, and delivery standards; and support experimentation, model development, deployment, and monitoring. Lead cross-team initiatives, influence technical roadmaps, mentor engineers and data scientists, and develop reusable AI and multi-agent data capabilities.

Designs, builds, and optimizes SAP HANA-native data models and analytical objects for S/4HANA, BW/4HANA, and standalone HANA platforms. Translates business requirements into performant models, troubleshoots HANA performance issues, and applies expertise in calculation views, CDS views, AMDPs, SQLScript, replication, security, and performance tuning. The role also supports HANA migrations, upgrades, cloud technologies, and SAP analytics tooling.

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.

Designs, builds, tests, and documents scalable data solutions and pipelines for CMS healthcare fraud, waste, and abuse initiatives. Responsibilities include data warehouse development, CI/CD deployment, orchestration, data quality, governance, AWS-based automation, testing, architecture support, and technical leadership. The role partners with analysts and business stakeholders, leads project initiatives, improves workflow automation, and ensures requirements and milestones are met.

Build and support scalable data platforms and pipelines, leading migrations such as Snowflake to BigQuery and transitioning reporting to Looker. Responsibilities include data architecture, ETL/ELT, API and marketing integrations, data quality, production troubleshooting, warehousing, performance optimization, and platform modernization. The role partners with analytics and business teams, owns projects through production, documents solutions, and provides technical guidance.

Design and lead scalable, secure, highly available database infrastructure for multi-terabyte SQL Server environments. Set technical direction for data architecture, performance, real-time pipelines, security, and growth. Troubleshoot complex production issues, optimize queries and indexes, guide cross-functional projects, mentor engineers, review changes, reduce technical debt, and evaluate emerging technologies. Monitor database health using Splunk, Datadog, and Grafana while influencing engineering and Site Reliability strategy.

Develops and maintains data pipelines, datasets, schemas, models, databases, and data flows. Analyzes raw and structured data, improves data quality, builds reporting and data dictionaries, and collaborates with analysts, scientists, and stakeholders. The role supports data security, compliance, visualization, and reporting while modernizing legacy technologies. Requires a flexible schedule supporting 24/7/365 operations and the ability to obtain and maintain a security clearance.

Build scalable, secure data pipelines, models, platforms, and governance systems that enable AI applications to access trusted enterprise data. Partner with analytics, marketing, and product teams to translate requirements into technical solutions, independently deliver projects through production, and support sensitive-data security and access controls. Preferred experience includes LLM architectures, cloud data platforms, infrastructure as code, regulated environments, and technical leadership.

Design and scale lakehouse architecture, including Bronze, Silver, and Gold data layers. Build reliable streaming and batch pipelines with Kafka, Spark, and Airflow; manage Iceberg, Delta, and Hudi table formats; optimize Trino, Starburst, and Databricks queries; and improve platform reliability, data quality, and performance. Collaborate with data scientists, analysts, and product teams to deliver scalable data platform solutions.

Design and scale lakehouse architecture, streaming and batch pipelines, and reliable data platforms using Kafka, Spark, Airflow, Iceberg, Databricks, and related technologies. Build Medallion-layer data systems, manage open table formats, optimize distributed queries, monitor platform reliability, resolve data quality issues, and collaborate with analysts, data scientists, and product teams.

Build and maintain scalable ETL/ELT pipelines and data foundations using Databricks, dbt, and AWS. Transform raw structured and unstructured data into reliable datasets for product analytics and data science, including telemetry, streaming data, and feature engineering. Develop dashboards in Tableau and Databricks, optimize workflows, and collaborate with Product, Engineering, analytics, and data science stakeholders to support product health, adoption, and performance insights.

Design and optimize Snowflake data warehouses, dbt transformation models, and scalable ETL/ELT pipelines. Develop ingestion utilities, improve SQL and warehouse performance, establish data quality and governance controls, and maintain CI/CD workflows using Git. Collaborate with analysts, data scientists, and business stakeholders across manufacturing, supply chain, and operations. The role also supports modern DataOps practices and may involve orchestration tools and cloud platforms.

Design, build, and maintain Keboola-based data pipelines integrating multiple business systems to deliver accurate, scalable data for supply chain, logistics, and transportation analytics; collaborate with analysts and engineers; support documentation, governance, and pipeline automation.

Designs, builds, and maintains cloud data pipelines and ETL/ELT processes supporting VA healthcare analytics. Responsibilities include patient matching, record linkage, data harmonization, quality management, documentation, performance optimization, and pipeline support. Collaborates with analysts and stakeholders to develop scalable solutions and Power BI reports using Databricks SparkSQL. The role requires federal healthcare data experience, strong SQL or Spark SQL skills, and the ability to obtain a VA Public Trust clearance.

Lead the modernization of a healthcare data platform from an MSSQL XML object store to a scalable AWS architecture. Evaluate AWS storage and query services, design SQL reporting layers, architect data migration and metadata strategies, optimize performance and cost, and build CI/CD and infrastructure-as-code pipelines. Partner with business stakeholders, analysts, and C#/.NET engineers to deliver accessible data models and reliable integrations. Document architecture, data flows, and migration processes while supporting healthcare data and compliance requirements.