Top Senior Data Engineer Jobs in Austin, TX

Own and evolve the data infrastructure powering identity and fraud products. Build and operate scalable ETL/ELT pipelines, ensure data quality and observability, optimize storage and access, support product squads, respond to production incidents, mentor engineers, and drive data platform innovation.

Lead the Data Platform Engineering team owning ETL/reverse-ETL pipelines, replication, and production datastores. Define architecture, roadmap, standards (IaC, observability, schema contracts), mentor engineers, drive incident response and durable fixes, and partner on cross-team technical decisions and operational reliability for data correctness, completeness, and timeliness.

Designs and maintains healthcare data pipelines, ETL workflows, databases, data models, and analytical frameworks. Analyzes claims and payer data to identify trends and insights, while ensuring data quality and integrity. Creates reports, dashboards, and visualizations for nontechnical stakeholders and collaborates with healthcare policy experts, analysts, and other stakeholders to translate requirements into data solutions. The role also improves data infrastructure and analytics capabilities.

Design and own scalable data warehouse components, ingestion pipelines, dbt models, marts, and reusable data assets using Snowflake and related technologies. Lead complex initiatives, troubleshoot production pipelines, improve data quality and architecture, collaborate with business and BI stakeholders, and mentor engineers. The role also involves using AI-assisted development tools and supporting reporting, analytics, and executive decision-making.

Designs, builds, and operates large-scale Hadoop data pipelines and analytics platforms. Responsibilities include ingesting, transforming, and analyzing structured and unstructured data; developing Spark-based processing solutions; managing streaming and distributed data systems; orchestrating workflows; troubleshooting production environments; and supporting analytics, machine learning, and reporting workloads. The role also involves optimizing data platforms for reliability, performance, and cost, with opportunities to work across cloud, lakehouse, governance, Kubernetes, CI/CD, and infrastructure-as-code technologies.

Designs and maintains scalable financial data pipelines, ETL/ELT workflows, data models, quality frameworks, and enterprise application integrations. Develops dashboards and reporting with BI tools, supports financial planning and forecasting, and delivers data-driven solutions in partnership with Finance, Accounting, and FP&A. Leads small to medium projects, contributes to larger programs, mentors junior engineers, participates in Agile planning, evaluates emerging AI and data technologies, and improves processes, accuracy, and automation.

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.

Build reusable, analytics-ready telematics data products on Azure Databricks. Design canonical datasets, standardize metrics and business logic, optimize performance and cost, enable self-service analytics, and support AI/ML use cases for enterprise telemetry and connected-vehicle data.

Build, scale, and operate an enterprise telemetry data platform that ingests, processes, and publishes vehicle telemetry at global scale. Develop batch and streaming pipelines using Databricks and Spark, implement observability and data quality controls, optimize distributed workloads for performance and cost, and enable reliable production data products through CI/CD and Infrastructure as Code. Provide technical leadership and partner with analytics, AI, and engineering teams.

Build and operate scalable data pipelines and services to power internal products. Design data models, curate high-quality datasets, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and mentor engineers while improving platform reliability, observability, and AI-ready data layers.

Build and lead Way’s data infrastructure from the ground up. Design cloud-native data lakes, scalable batch and real-time ETL/ELT pipelines, ingestion frameworks, data warehouses, orchestration, streaming systems, data quality monitoring, and DataOps practices. Develop Python and SQL-based data solutions, infrastructure as code, feature stores, dashboards, and self-service analytics. Partner with product and business teams on metrics, predictive modeling, and experimentation while establishing data-driven practices.

Architect, build, and operate low-latency market data systems, including feed handlers, normalization, distribution, and exchange connectivity. Design high-throughput infrastructure for real-time trading data, improve reliability and performance, participate in observability, on-call, and incident response, and deliver well-tested features end to end. Partner with engineering, product, and cross-functional stakeholders while leading a lean, high-impact team.

Build and maintain governed Silver/Gold data models and semantic assets on Databricks. Translate stakeholder KPIs into testable, reusable transformations, apply enterprise modeling standards, enable domain self-service, ensure data sensitivity and governance, and review domain-contributed models for production readiness.

Build Sailor Health’s foundational data platform from scratch. Responsibilities include developing Snowflake and dbt pipelines integrating EHR, CRM, and communications data; creating data-powered web applications; automating clinical and billing workflows with Python; analyzing therapy transcripts and patient data using AI and machine learning; tracking clinical outcomes; and designing scalable data architectures in collaboration with clinicians, engineers, founders, and other teams.

Lead the design and operation of a scalable data platform, owning ingestion, orchestration, observability, lineage, data modeling, contracts, and ETL/ELT pipelines. Build Databricks and PostgreSQL solutions, implement data-quality controls, anomaly detection, governance, privacy, and compliance practices, and establish reusable engineering standards. Mentor engineers and ensure reliable, traceable data across markets and product lines.

Own and evolve Worldly’s production data lake, Postgres warehouse, CDC and streaming pipelines, dbt transformations, orchestration, BI access controls, and graph integrations. Maintain reliable, governed analytics infrastructure using Iceberg, Trino, Dagster, Terraform, and AWS. Support production generative AI workflows involving embeddings, similarity search, extraction, and classification. Responsibilities include data quality, monitoring, security, incident response, disaster recovery, schema governance, and collaboration with data science and analytics stakeholders.

Design, build, and maintain scalable production data pipelines and cloud-based solutions in Microsoft Azure. Develop Python, SQL, Spark, Spark SQL, and PySpark workflows for data ingestion, transformation, integration, analytics, reporting, and machine learning. Monitor, troubleshoot, validate, and optimize data pipelines and large-scale processing workloads while collaborating with technical teams and stakeholders. Document architectures and follow software engineering best practices for testing, version control, and deployment.

Designs, administers, and optimizes data systems supporting FSA IAM applications. Develops migration plans from legacy AIMS and PAS systems, creates data models, mappings, layouts, dictionaries, and integration processes, and supports analytics and fraud detection. Manages database configuration, performance tuning, monitoring, backups, capacity, secure data handling, encryption, network data flows, token management, and documentation while collaborating with development, security, and operations teams.

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.

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.

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.

Manage, design, and optimize data activities for federal IAM systems. Develop data models, file layouts, source-to-target mappings, data dictionaries, integrations, ETL processes, and analytics support for identity analysis and fraud detection. Administer and tune databases, including configuration, backups, monitoring, capacity planning, and performance optimization. Support secure handling of identity and PII data, network-related data flows, documentation, token management processes, and collaboration across development, security, and operations teams.

Architect and maintain NetBrain’s first cloud data warehouse, ELT pipelines, transformation layer, semantic models, and BI foundation. Own data quality, governance, lineage, access controls, and curated models supporting product usage, customer adoption, account health, and go-to-market reporting. Partner with stakeholders to establish reliable metrics and a standardized source of truth, while supporting AI-assisted analytics and natural-language reporting use cases.

Design, build, and own scalable data pipelines and warehousing architecture from ingestion through analytics and incentive payouts. Lead data platform architecture, dbt modeling, data quality, lineage, observability, performance, and cost management. Partner with engineers and analysts on telematics accuracy and driver incentive reporting. Use AI coding tools daily to develop and review pipelines, SQL, and data models.

Designs, builds, and operates scalable enterprise data platforms supporting ingestion, processing, storage, governance, analytics, and AI/ML. Responsibilities include developing batch and real-time pipelines, lakehouse and warehouse architectures, orchestration, infrastructure automation, CI/CD, monitoring, security, cost optimization, and observability. The role partners with data, ML, DevOps, security, and application teams, troubleshoots complex platform issues, establishes reusable engineering standards, contributes to architecture strategy, and mentors engineers.