Top Senior Data Engineer Jobs in Boston, MA

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 production data pipelines supporting analytics, AI, and agentic workflows. Responsibilities include implementing canonical data models, maintaining Databricks or Snowflake platforms, monitoring reliability, responding to incidents, validating healthcare data mappings, improving performance and cost, and documenting architecture. Requires strong SQL and Python skills, cloud data platform experience, ETL/ELT orchestration expertise, and healthcare or pharmaceutical data experience.

Lead Data Engineer developing cloud-based data and AI solutions for risk management. Responsibilities include building, testing, deploying, and supporting full-stack systems; developing data pipelines, distributed and streaming applications; using cloud warehouses, RDBMS, NoSQL databases, and machine learning technologies; conducting code reviews and unit tests; collaborating across Agile teams; and mentoring engineers. The role requires application development, big data, and cloud experience, with preferred expertise in real-time data, data warehousing, distributed computing, and AI tooling.

Build and operate reliable data systems and products supporting clinical operations, drug evaluation, business development, analytics, machine learning, and AI agents. Responsibilities include designing pipelines, canonical data models, data contracts, warehouse transformations, quality and observability practices, governance for regulated data, and incident response. The role partners closely with Product Engineering and Data Science, uses AI-assisted development, contributes to architecture, and mentors other engineers.

Design, develop, test, deploy, and optimize high-throughput streaming, event-driven, and batch data pipelines using Databricks, Scala/PySpark, and cloud infrastructure. Build data lakehouse solutions, troubleshoot DevOps and Azure issues, perform root-cause and impact analysis, and support the full software development lifecycle. Collaborate with distributed stakeholders, drive technical improvements through proofs of concept, and maintain scalable data integration and curation solutions.

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.

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.

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.

Develop and optimize enterprise Oracle SQL and PL/SQL solutions, including data models, database designs, APIs, ETL processes, batch jobs, and performance tuning. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate requirements into scalable implementations, support testing and CI/CD, troubleshoot production issues, and document solutions. Provide technical leadership, mentor engineers, participate in architecture and code reviews, and drive engineering best practices across data modernization initiatives.

Designs, builds, and supports scalable batch and streaming data pipelines, integration solutions, data models, APIs, and enterprise data platforms. The role focuses on cloud data architecture, data quality, governance, platform performance, and graph capabilities using Neo4j. It partners with stakeholders, analytics, and data science teams to support operational insights, AI, machine learning, fraud detection, and connected-data use cases.

Design, build, and operate scalable ETL/ELT pipelines and backend data services using Go. Integrate relational, NoSQL, blockchain, API, web, and social data sources; develop NLP pipelines for text extraction and classification; and support production APIs, dashboards, alerts, and intelligence systems. Collaborate with engineering, data science, and investigations teams on architecture, data quality, lineage, validation, monitoring, and client-facing products.

Leads data engineering and data science teams, setting strategy and delivering scalable pipelines, data architecture, models, analytics infrastructure, and data governance. Partners with product, analytics, and business stakeholders to prioritize initiatives, assess upstream changes, maintain data quality, and support Snowflake-based warehousing. This hands-on leadership role includes mentoring staff, contributing to technical codebases, and advancing data science and engineering solutions.

Design, build, and maintain scalable batch and streaming data pipelines using Python, SQL, Kafka, and GCP. Develop REST and GraphQL data services, CI/CD automation, observability, and data-quality frameworks. Integrate ML and NLP models into production workflows, including continuous retraining and real-time inference. Support structured and unstructured healthcare datasets, distributed systems, microservices, and reliable data infrastructure while collaborating with data science and MLOps teams.

Build and configure a government Databricks workspace, develop ingestion and integration pipelines from enterprise and legacy systems, and prepare data for reporting. Implement Unity Catalog governance, metadata management, auditing, and lineage; configure MLflow workflows; assess security controls for sensitive data; and create architecture documentation, data dictionaries, and SOPs to support long-term sustainment.

Lead the design and optimization of healthcare data pipelines integrating EHR, payer, HIE, and vendor data. Build AWS-based ETL/ELT infrastructure, reusable integration tooling, data quality monitoring, and ML enablement foundations. Ensure HIPAA-compliant handling of clinical data, including security controls, audit logging, encryption, and de-identification. Provide technical leadership, mentor engineers, influence platform architecture, and lead complex partner integrations involving FHIR, HL7v2, CCDA, and healthcare terminology standards.

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.

Build PFA’s data organization and own its data platform, architecture, pipelines, integrations, schemas, and data-quality processes. Develop predictive analytics, AI-enabled workflows, reporting layers, dashboards, and executive insights from fragmented healthcare data. Establish engineering standards involving Python, SQL, Git, testing, and maintainable software design. Partner with product, engineering, and business leaders to address data gaps and translate strategic needs into scalable technical solutions.

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.

Design, build, and operate high-throughput data pipelines supporting billing and cost attribution. Drive Spark optimization, latency reduction, sharding, cross-datacenter reliability, and new billing capabilities. Investigate billing accuracy issues with Finance and Product teams, participate in on-call rotation, and improve engineering standards and operational excellence.

Build and own trusted data products, dimensional models, semantic layers, and dbt transformations that support analytics, experimentation, machine learning, reporting, and decision-making. Partner with cross-functional teams to translate business needs into scalable datasets, improve data quality and governance, establish engineering standards, and drive self-service analytics. Mentor engineers and analysts while leveraging AI tools to improve development, documentation, and quality.

Design, build, and operate WHOOP’s data platform infrastructure, including lakehouse, warehouse, and streaming systems. Improve performance, reliability, cost efficiency, observability, and developer experience across AWS-based data systems. Develop internal tools, APIs, automation, CI/CD, and infrastructure-as-code practices. Partner with data, ML, analytics, and software engineering teams to support scalable workflows, governance, and production excellence while using AI-assisted development tools effectively.

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, 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.