Data engineer jobs in the United States (4,664 jobs)

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Counted Nov 6, 2026

Hiring at a glance

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Open jobs: 4,664
Employers: 2,071

Advertised starting pay

Average starting payUSD / year: $125,867Across 820 listings
Average starting payUSD / hour: $61.04Across 473 listings

Employer-advertised starting pay, not employee salaries. Currencies and pay periods stay separate.

Where work happens

Remote: 12%565 listings
Hybrid: 6%293 listings
On-site: 8%382 listings

Not specified: 73% (3,424 listings)

Employers hiring include Eliassen Group (307), Booz Allen Hamilton_United States (71), Insight Global (63).

Sources & calculation notes

These figures describe the listings on this role page at the date shown, not the whole job market. Listings can change.

Employer-listed minimums from at least 10 listings per currency and pay period. These are advertised starting amounts, not employee salaries. Jobs without a minimum and unusual amounts are excluded.

Hybrid and on-site classifications may be inferred from descriptions. Check the original ad. How we count

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Staff AI & Data Engineer – Databricks
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- $80 to $90 USD / hour
Our client is seeking a highly experienced Staff AI & Data Engineer to design and build enterprise-grade data and AI solutions on Databricks. This hands-on role focuses on strengthening the
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- $55 to $60 USD / hour
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- $80 to $90 USD / hour
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- $80 to $90 USD / hour
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Eliassen Group

Staff AI & Data Engineer – Databricks

Des Moines, IA, United States

$80 to $90 USD / hour

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Pay: $80 to $90 USD / hour
Posting language: English
Posted: Nov 5, 2026

Original job description

Staff AI & Data Engineer – Databricks

Anywhere

Type: Contract

Category: Data

Industry: Technology

Workplace Type: Remote

Standard Hours: Open

Reference ID: JN -112026-109353

Date Posted: 11/03/2026

Shortcut: http://careers.eliassen.com/SeR7jt

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Remote

Our client is seeking a highly experienced Staff AI & Data Engineer to design and build enterprise-grade data and AI solutions on Databricks. This hands-on role focuses on strengthening the Databricks platform, onboarding new data sources, building reusable ingestion and transformation frameworks, creating trusted Gold-layer data products, enabling cross-domain analytics, and developing semantic and agent-ready capabilities. The ideal candidate brings strong data engineering expertise with modern AI and GenAI engineering skills and works across pipelines, modeling, data quality, governance, semantic layers, natural-language analytics, and AI agents.

Due to client requirements, applicants must be willing and able to work on a w2 basis. For our w2 consultants, we offer a great benefits package that includes Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits, 401k with company matching, and life insurance.

Rate: $80.00 to $90.00/hr. w2

JN -112026-109353

Responsibilities:

Design and build production-grade data pipelines on Databricks.
Ingest data from enterprise applications, databases, APIs, SaaS platforms, files, and other source systems.
Build and maintain Bronze, Silver, and Gold medallion architectures.
Implement incremental processing and change data capture patterns where appropriate.
Standardize types, codes, units, keys, and business definitions across source systems.
Implement deduplication, historical tracking, schema evolution, and data lineage.
Optimize pipelines for reliability, performance, scalability, and cost.
Build a configuration-driven source onboarding framework and Lakeflow pipeline templates.
Automate source registration, deployment, monitoring, lineage, and operational controls.
Implement data quality expectations, anomaly detection, monitoring, and quarantine processes.
Implement job and pipeline monitoring, alerting, audit logging, and operational dashboards.
Support automated deployment and promotion using Databricks Asset Bundles and CI/CD.
Develop conformed dimensions and shared-key strategies across domains.
Build integrated Gold-layer products and reusable data contracts.
Build AI-ready Gold data products with ownership, lineage, definitions, and quality information.
Develop semantic context, business glossary, ontology, and certified KPIs in Unity Catalog.
Build governed Unity Catalog functions and agent-ready tools and endpoints.
Implement tracing, evaluation, testing, monitoring, and governance for AI and agent workflows.
Support development of AI agents that use trusted enterprise data.

Experience Requirements:

Advanced hands-on experience with Databricks, Apache Spark, Delta Lake, and SQL.
Hands-on experience with AWS services related to data analytics and AI, including EMR and Bedrock.
Strong Python and SQL development skills.
Experience building scalable batch and/or streaming data pipelines.
Deep understanding of Bronze/Silver/Gold medallion architectures.
Experience with Databricks Lakeflow or comparable orchestration technologies.
Experience implementing enterprise data quality, lineage, observability, and monitoring.
Experience with Unity Catalog and governed enterprise data environments.
Strong understanding of dimensional modeling, data products, semantic models, and cross-domain integration.
Experience with Git-based development, CI/CD, automated testing, and production deployment.
Ability to troubleshoot complex distributed data and pipeline issues.
Experience building AI and GenAI solutions against enterprise data.
Understanding of semantic layers and natural-language-to-data architectures.
Experience with Databricks Genie or comparable natural-language analytics technology.
Experience building tools, functions, APIs, or services consumed by AI agents.
Understanding of MCP, agent tool calling, tracing, evaluation, and AI governance.
Experience developing production AI solutions with security, observability, and governance controls.
Preferred: Databricks Data Engineer Professional or equivalent experience.
Preferred: Experience with Databricks AI/BI, Genie, MLflow, and MCP-based integrations.
Preferred: Experience in Real Estate, Finance, People/Workplace, Operations, or similar domains.
Preferred: Experience building metadata-driven or configuration-driven ingestion frameworks.

Recruitment Transparency Notice

Eliassen Group values transparency in our recruitment practices. Please be advised that Eliassen Group utilizes artificial intelligence (AI) tools as part of its initial application screening and hiring process. You may receive email and SMS notifications from the Eliassen Virtual Recruiting Team ( noreply@eliassen.com , 781-808-2924) inviting you to complete a brief voice screening as part of your application process. These tools assist our hiring teams in different ways, including but not limited to, assistance in reviewing application materials to help identify candidates whose qualifications most closely match the requirements of the position. All AI-assisted evaluations and responses are reviewed by human recruiters before any hiring decisions are made. The use of AI in our process is intended to support fairness, efficiency, and consistency, and Eliassen Group takes measures to prevent bias or discrimination in connection with its hiring practices. By proceeding, you acknowledge, agree, and consent to Eliassen Group’s use of these tools, including AI tools, as part of the application and hiring process.

Skills, experience, and other compensable factors will be considered when determining pay rate. The pay range provided in this posting reflects a W2 hourly rate; other employment options may be available that may result in pay outside of the provided range.

W2 employees of Eliassen Group who are regularly scheduled to work 30 or more hours per week are eligible for the following benefits: medical (choice of 3 plans), dental, vision, pre-tax accounts, other voluntary benefits including life and disability insurance, 401(k) with match, and sick time if required by law in the worked-in state/locality.

If anyone reaches out to you about an open position connected with Eliassen Group, please ensure that you are working directly with us by confirming the following:

· When you work with Eliassen Group, all email communication will come from an Eliassen.com address, never Gmail, Yahoo, etc.

· Eliassen Group will never ask you for personal information (home address, bank account, or check routing number) until you have worked with someone clearly associated with Eliassen Group.

If you have any indication of fraudulent activity, please contact fraud@eliassen.com .

About Eliassen Group:

Eliassen Group is a strategic consulting firm that helps organizations reach further and achieve more through our technology, business advisory, and life sciences solutions. For nearly 40 years, we have combined exceptional people, deep domain expertise, and intelligent capabilities to expand our clients’ capacity and accelerate meaningful outcomes. We are driven by a purpose to positively impact the lives of our employees, clients, consultants, and the communities we serve.

Eliassen is committed to building a diverse and inclusive team from a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. We are an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer and all employment decisions are based on merit, performance, and business needs. Eliassen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, gender identity or expression, sexual preference or orientation, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, and related medical conditions), marital status, creed, religion, physical or mental disability, genetic information, military or veteran status, age, ancestry, national origin, citizenship status, prohibited criminal record inquiries of applicants and employees, or any other category protected by federal, state, or local laws.

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