Data engineer jobs in the United States

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Counted Nov 4, 2026

Hiring at a glance

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Open jobs: 4,568
Employers: 2,019

Advertised starting pay

Average starting payUSD / year: $125,868Across 803 listings
Average starting payUSD / hour: $60.65Across 467 listings

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

Where work happens

Remote: 12%561 listings
Hybrid: 6%287 listings
On-site: 8%343 listings

Not specified: 74% (3,377 listings)

Employers hiring include Eliassen Group (295), Booz Allen Hamilton_United States (74), Insight Global (67).

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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

Data engineer jobs in the United States

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Senior Data Engineer (USA)
Trexquant Investment
Stamford, CT
Trexquant is seeking an experienced Senior Data Engineer to build and maintain the core data infrastructure that powers our quantitative research platform. This role is responsible for…
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Senior Data Engineer (USA)
Trexquant Investment
NY · New York, NY
Trexquant is seeking an experienced Senior Data Engineer to build and maintain the core data infrastructure that powers our quantitative research platform. This role is responsible for…
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AWS Data Engineer
Qode
Remote, United States
As an AWS Data Engineer, your role will be to design, develop, and maintain scalable data pipelines on AWS. You will work closely with technical analysts, client stakeholders, data…
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AWS Data Engineer
Qode
Remote, United States
As an AWS Data Engineer, your role will be to design, develop, and maintain scalable data pipelines on AWS. You will work closely with technical analysts, client stakeholders, data…
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Data Engineer
Pavago
Remote, United States
Our client is seeking a Data Engineer to design, build, and maintain scalable data infrastructure and reliable data pipelines that power analytics, reporting, and operational…
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AWS Data Engineer - Fully Remote - US Only
Scalepex
Remote, United States
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Senior Data Engineer and Analytics Lead
OpenDataJobs
Remote, United States
- $155,000 to $175,000 USD / year
Peregrine Advisors is a rapidly growing AI and data innovation hub helping government solve hard problems and deliver better outcomes. We work across the full lifecycle - from strategy and…
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AI Data Engineer
C the Signs
Remote, United States
The Data Engineer will play a crucial role in developing and fine-tuning data specifically for our LLMs and machine learning models. This individual will be responsible for the entire data…
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AI Data Engineer
C the Signs
Remote, United States
The Data Engineer will play a crucial role in developing and fine-tuning data specifically for our LLMs and machine learning models. This individual will be responsible for the entire data…
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AI Data Engineer
C the Signs
Remote, United States
The Data Engineer will play a crucial role in developing and fine-tuning data specifically for our LLMs and machine learning models. This individual will be responsible for the entire data…
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AI Data Engineer
C the Signs
Remote, United States
The Data Engineer will play a crucial role in developing and fine-tuning data specifically for our LLMs and machine learning models. This individual will be responsible for the entire data…
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AI Data Engineer
C the Signs
Remote, United States
The Data Engineer will play a crucial role in developing and fine-tuning data specifically for our LLMs and machine learning models. This individual will be responsible for the entire data…
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AI Data Engineer
C the Signs
Remote, United States
The Data Engineer will play a crucial role in developing and fine-tuning data specifically for our LLMs and machine learning models. This individual will be responsible for the entire data…
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Senior Data Engineer
Node.Digital
Remote, United States
Provide authoritative expertise on data engineering methods and best practices, including code first development approaches and modern pipeline design patterns.
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Data Engineer (Snowflake)
Prominence Advisors
Remote, United States
Prominence Advisors is actively seeking a Data Engineer (Snowflake) to join our team.
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Senior Data Engineer
Zifo
Remote, United States
Design, build, and operate the data infrastructure for a clinical trial design platform that extracts insights from clinical protocols, regulatory documents, and published articles to…
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Data Engineer
Sand Cherry Associates
Remote, United States
We are seeking a Data Engineer to help build and operationalize the data, monitoring
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Data Engineer
Prominence Advisors
Remote, United States
…nation’s leading healthcare organizations to do more with their data. Founded by former Epic managers, we understand the technology landscape in healthcare and provide IT staffing, advisory…
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Data Engineer
Jenzabar
Remote, United States
- $85,000 to $100,000 USD / year
The Data Engineer V leads the design, development, and optimization of scalable data pipelines and analytics platforms. This role partners closely with product, analytics, and engineering…
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Senior Data Engineer
Bitful Consulting
Remote, United States
You’ll build and maintain data pipelines and datasets that support reporting, visualization, machine learning and data-driven decision making across finance, sales, supply chain, marketing…
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Senior Data Engineer
Bitful Consulting
Remote, United States
You’ll build and maintain data pipelines and datasets that support reporting, visualization, machine learning and data-driven decision making across finance, sales, supply chain, marketing…
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Senior Data Engineer
Bitful Consulting
Remote, United States
You’ll build and maintain data pipelines and datasets that support reporting, visualization, machine learning and data-driven decision making across finance, sales, supply chain, marketing…
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Senior Data Engineer
Bitful Consulting
Remote, United States
You’ll build and maintain data pipelines and datasets that support reporting, visualization, machine learning and data-driven decision making across finance, sales, supply chain, marketing…
Added 21 days ago
Senior Data Engineer
Bitful Consulting
Remote, United States
You’ll build and maintain data pipelines and datasets that support reporting, visualization, machine learning and data-driven decision making across finance, sales, supply chain, marketing…
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Data Engineer-Onshore
V4C.ai
Remote, United States
The Senior Data Engineer plays a key role in advancing the company's AI strategy by designing, developing, and optimizing scalable data platforms. This role focuses on data engineering as…

Node.Digital

Senior Data Engineer

Remote, United States

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Posting language: English
Posted: Jul 30, 2026

Original job description

Senior Data Engineer Location: Herndon, VA (Remote Work) Must have an Public Trust Clearance

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Provide authoritative expertise on data engineering methods and best practices, including code first development approaches and modern pipeline design patterns.
Design, implement, and maintain the data architecture that supports products and end users, with all assets managed under source control.
Design, implement, and maintain ELT and ETL pipelines for efficient processing of source data in Azure Synapse and Azure Machine Learning, using both SDK V1 and SDK V2.
Migrate source data identified by SBA OIG into Azure Data Lake Storage.
Normalize entity attributes such as addresses, phone numbers, and other common fields.
Review, maintain, and improve existing architecture and pipelines, including periodic audits addressing bottlenecks, deprecated dependencies, and architecture drift.
Establish quality controls across all pipelines and introduce error handling, logging mechanisms, and validation checks.
Incorporate source control across all pipelines and analytics codebases so code can evolve iteratively without destabilizing the architecture.
Optimize ingestion, processing, and storage across a wide variety of datasets and data types, including modern columnar formats such as Parquet.
Develop self service capabilities that let SBA OIG analysts query and export data for investigations and audits.
Author robust standard operating procedures governing the authoring, development, validation, publishing, execution, and monitoring of all data pipelines and assets in the Azure environment.
Produce detailed documentation of the data architecture, including data dictionaries, entity relationship diagrams, and pipeline process maps.
Maintain and expand the environment with additional datasets and services on request, following a defined intake and testing process before production deployment.
Stay current with emerging AI tooling relevant to data engineering and contribute to exploratory work evaluating automation and language model assisted capabilities.

Education Bachelor's degree in data engineering, computer science, data science, machine learning, mathematics, or a related field. Alternatively, five years of applied work experience in any of the same fields.

5 years - Maintaining SQL databases and conducting advanced operations in SQL and T-SQL.
5 years - Designing, implementing, and maintaining ELT and ETL processes in cloud based data analytics environments.
3 years - Working in Azure Synapse and Azure Machine Learning with the modern data stack. Certifications preferred, DP-203 or equivalent.
3 years -Manipulating data in Python. Pandas is required. PySpark and Polars preferred. Experience developing reusable, modular code preferred.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

DP-203, Microsoft Certified Azure Data Engineer Associate, or an equivalent current certification.
Implementing pipelines and infrastructure using code first approaches: Python SDK, CLI, REST APIs, or infrastructure as code tooling such as Terraform or Bicep.
Implementing source control and continuous integration and delivery workflows for data assets.
Demonstrated familiarity with AI coding assistants and large language model integration patterns.
PySpark or Polars at production scale.
Entity resolution and attribute normalization across records with inconsistent addresses, names, and identifiers.
Building self service analytic access for non engineering users.

We are proud to offer competitive compensation and benefits packages to include

Medical
Dental
Vision
Basic Life
Health Saving Account
401K matching
Three weeks of PTO/Sick
11 Paid Holidays
Pre-Approved Online Training

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Skills

Data engineering
Microsoft Azure
Machine learning
Documentation
Computer science
SQL
Data analysis
DP
Python
PySpark
API development
Infrastructure as code
IBM Terraform
CI/CD

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