Top Data Engineer Jobs in Boston, MA

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.

Supports the design and development of scalable end-to-end data pipelines and cloud data platforms. Responsibilities include improving data reliability and quality, implementing data management practices, supporting automation and process improvements, ensuring secure and cost-effective solutions, and recommending system enhancements. The intern collaborates with global teams and gains hands-on experience in data engineering, project coordination, and innovation management.

The Principal Data Engineer designs and builds scalable cloud-native data platforms, pipelines, frameworks, and governed data products supporting analytics, reporting, AI, and operational workloads. Responsibilities include Databricks, Spark, Delta Lake, Azure, SQL Server, batch and streaming processing, data integration, performance optimization, governance, modernization, troubleshooting, architecture reviews, and mentorship. The role provides senior technical leadership without direct people management and supports insurance-domain data across policy, claims, billing, finance, and regulatory functions.

Build and configure a government Databricks workspace, develop ingestion pipelines from enterprise systems, and prepare data for reporting. Implement Unity Catalog governance, metadata, auditing, and lineage; configure MLflow workflows; assess security controls for sensitive data; and create architecture documentation, data dictionaries, and operating procedures. The role also requires integrating legacy systems, optimizing Delta Lake pipelines, and supporting long-term platform sustainment.

Designs and maintains ELT pipelines, warehouse integrations, data models, and data quality processes. Collaborates with data scientists, analysts, engineers, and stakeholders to deliver scalable analytical solutions. Responsibilities include data integration, governance, security, performance optimization, exploratory analysis, visualization, and cloud-based API ingestion. Requires strong SQL, DBT, Snowflake, Azure Data Factory, cloud, and scripting experience, plus leadership and communication skills.

Build and maintain production data pipelines, Airflow DAGs, Snowflake infrastructure, and Data Vault 2.0 models. Ensure data quality, observability, security, governance, reliability, and cost efficiency through automated testing and CI/CD. Lead technical projects end-to-end, collaborate with stakeholders, and support SOX-relevant reporting while developing expertise in commercial insurance data and processes.

The Forward Deployed Data Engineer will manage AI-automated data platform migration projects, ensuring timely delivery and communication with clients while utilizing proprietary tools.

Build and maintain batch and streaming data pipelines using Databricks, Spark, PySpark, and SQL. Develop AI-assisted ingestion, data-quality repair, document extraction, and human-review workflows. Manage Delta Lake storage, Unity Catalog metadata, geospatial processing, governance, lineage, orchestration, monitoring, CI/CD, and production support. Collaborate with architects and data scientists to operationalize a governed lakehouse platform for pipeline asset integrity data.

Manage Oracle and PostgreSQL databases across on-premises and AWS environments, including upgrades, migrations, performance tuning, security, and backup recovery. Design and maintain ETL pipelines using Talend, SQL, Power Automate, and related tools. Perform data profiling, quality analysis, governance, and cloud migration activities. Create technical architecture and lineage documentation while supporting regulated, audit-ready data platforms and integrations.

Build and operate reliable ETL and ELT pipelines across lakehouse and transactional systems. Develop data models, enforce governance, integrate diverse data sources, and support analytics, APIs, and predictive tools. Monitor performance, data quality, lineage, cost, and uptime while collaborating with data science, AI, product, and innovation teams.

Build and maintain cloud cost monitoring, alerting, and optimization tooling. Develop automation, cost allocation/tagging, data pipelines, dashboards, and integrations with billing APIs. Support FinOps processes, implement cost guardrails, troubleshoot cost systems, participate in on-call rotation, and collaborate with senior engineers and product teams to drive cost-efficient infrastructure and reporting.

Designs and maintains scalable ELT/ETL pipelines, data models, and automation systems supporting cloud cost visibility and optimization. Uses Python, SQL, dbt, Airflow, AWS services, and Snowflake to process telemetry and usage data. Optimizes performance, reliability, storage, and compute costs while ensuring data quality, validation, and auditability. Partners with Engineering and Finance stakeholders on cost-aware decision-making and usage insights.

Lead the Ads Signals & Measurement data engineering team across conversion and attribution, measurement foundations, audience onboarding, and identity. Set cross-organizational technical direction, resolve scalable data architecture decisions, mentor engineers, and partner on platform-wide initiatives. The role requires expertise in modern data stacks, advertising technology data flows, privacy and governance, distributed systems, and emerging AI technologies.

Designs, builds, and maintains scalable ETL/ELT pipelines and finance data models using Snowflake, AWS, dbt Core, Python, and SQL. Develops Medallion architecture data marts, integrates ERP systems, and partners with stakeholders on financial workflows. Implements data governance, RBAC, automated quality testing, observability, documentation, CI/CD, and secure deployments. Monitors Snowflake costs and optimizes queries while supporting Oracle EBS integrations and the migration to Workday.

Designs and develops complex cloud-native data solutions, scalable batch and real-time pipelines, APIs, data models, and enterprise data platforms. Implements data governance, quality, lineage, security, observability, CI/CD, automated testing, and operational reporting capabilities. Collaborates with architects, product owners, analysts, governance, security, and platform teams on technology strategy and cloud modernization. Mentors engineers, leads technical design discussions, presents recommendations, and supports AI-ready data products and emerging development tools.

Design, build, and maintain high-throughput data processing services, focusing on streaming and batch data systems to enhance player experiences.

Design, build, deploy, and operate governed data products and pipelines for supply chain operations. Develop Snowflake and dbt models, batch and real-time ingestion, data quality controls, observability, and production support. Partner with product, engineering, analytics, and business teams to deliver reliable datasets for transportation, fulfillment, inventory, delivery, returns, AI, and conversational analytics. Optimize performance and costs while applying secure software engineering, CI/CD, documentation, and reusable framework practices.

Design, build, and maintain scalable batch and streaming data pipelines on GCP using Dataflow, Airflow, Pub/Sub, and BigQuery. Develop analytical data models, integrations, cloud infrastructure, CI/CD workflows, observability, governance, and secure data platforms at terabyte-to-petabyte scale. Lead architecture decisions, mentor junior engineers, and create reusable datasets and catalogs. Also support enterprise AI/ML platforms, including LLM and generative AI integrations, model deployment, monitoring, governance, and lifecycle management.

Design, develop, and optimize enterprise-scale data platforms, pipelines, data lakes, warehouses, and analytical datasets on Azure and Snowflake. Build ETL/ELT processes using ADF, Databricks, PySpark, SQL, Python, and Snowflake. Manage data models, governance, security, quality, CI/CD, cloud migrations, and performance optimization. Collaborate with stakeholders, troubleshoot production issues, document solutions, and support Agile delivery.

Support design, development, and maintenance of data pipelines and infrastructure. Assist with ETL/ELT workflows, data ingestion, cleaning, validation, modeling, and warehousing. Document processes and collaborate with data teams to support analytics use cases.

Designs, builds, and manages cloud-based data systems, including pipelines, data lakes, warehouses, lakehouses, databases, and ETL processes. Develops optimized Python and SQL queries, improves workflow performance, and supports data movement between on-premises and cloud environments. Collaborates with leadership, analysts, research teams, and other departments to define requirements and reporting needs. Applies data governance, access controls, security, compliance, troubleshooting, and system support practices.

Design, build, and own the full data platform (ingestion, modeling, CI/CD, orchestration, observability, and BI). Implement streaming and batch pipelines for IoT data, enable governed self-service, enforce data governance/privacy/security, evolve AI access patterns, and provide technical leadership and mentorship to data engineers and data scientists to deliver production-ready analytics and ML capabilities.

Build and operate reliable data pipelines transforming flight test, simulation, and operational data into versioned, traceable ML training datasets. Responsibilities include ingestion, normalization, time alignment, validation, dataset lineage, anomaly mining, labeling workflows, deployment feedback loops, monitoring, and data coverage analysis. Collaborate with flight test and operations teams on instrumentation and data access. The role is on-site in Boston and requires production data engineering experience supporting machine learning pipelines.

Build scalable cloud data infrastructure and pipelines to transform transactional and financial data into reporting-ready datasets. Ensure accuracy, traceability, governance, and observability; partner with cross-functional teams, mentor engineers, and leverage AI-assisted tools to improve engineering productivity and enable AI-powered applications.

Designs and operates batch, streaming, and real-time data platforms and pipelines using Spark, Kafka, Iceberg, Airflow, and cloud infrastructure. Owns data lake evolution, data quality, observability, reliability, governance, event instrumentation, schema management, and privacy controls for PII, retention, deletion, and residency. Leads complex initiatives end-to-end, troubleshoots production issues, mentors engineers, and develops AI agent harnesses that enforce data engineering standards and quality gates.