Data engineer jobs in the United States

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Counted Nov 5, 2026

Hiring at a glance

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Open jobs: 4,601
Employers: 2,048

Advertised starting pay

Average starting payUSD / year: $125,962Across 808 listings
Average starting payUSD / hour: $60.54Across 465 listings

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

Where work happens

Remote: 12%567 listings
Hybrid: 6%289 listings
On-site: 8%371 listings

Not specified: 73% (3,374 listings)

Employers hiring include Eliassen Group (294), Booz Allen Hamilton_United States (74), Insight Global (67).

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

Data engineer jobs in the United States

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Senior Azure Data Engineer
Eliassen Group
Santa Fe, NM
- $75 to $85 USD / hour
As a Senior Azure Data Engineer, you will help modernize an enterprise data platform by migrating data and workloads from an on-premises Oracle data warehouse and IBM DataS
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Data Engineer
Eliassen Group
Santa Fe, NM
- $60 to $70 USD / hour
Our client seeks a data engineer to collaborate with cross-functional teams and own systems, processes, and the tech stack across the SDLC. The role focuses on building and optimizing…
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Data Engineer
ManpowerGroup
Montvale, NJ
- $76 USD / hour
Our client is seeking a Data Engineer to join their team. As a Data Engineer, you will be part of the Data Support Department supporting Data Platform and Application Support teams. The…
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Data Engineer
PALAYEKAR COMPANIES INC
Cranbury, NJ
…software for client use. Design, document, build, test and deploy data pipelines that assemble…
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Principal Data Engineer
J&J Family of Companies
New Brunswick, NJ
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Senior Data Engineer (Remote)
Quest Diagnostics Inc
Secaucus, NJ
- $15.92 USD / hour
…testing, and deployment of highly scalable, high-performance data integration and transformation solutions across Quest's enterprise data platform and the HAS data product. Partnering with…
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Data Engineer (Remote)
Quest Diagnostics Inc
Secaucus, NJ
- $15.92 USD / hour
…developing, testing, and deploying highly scalable, high performance data integration and transformation solutions in Quest's enterprise data platform and the HAS data product. You will…
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Lead Data Engineer
MetLife
Bridgewater, NJ
The position sits within the newly consolidated Data and Analytics (D&A) organization supporting the U.S. Business of MetLife. U.S. D&A assists all business lines of MetLife’s U.S. business…
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Sr. Azure Data Engineer ( Hybrid)
Cognizant
Bridgewater, NJ
- $80,000 to $130,000 USD / year
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Senior Manager, Data Engineer, Clinical Operations
Bristol Myers Squibb
Princeton, NJ
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Data Engineer
Trustees of Princeton University
Princeton, NJ
Job Type Full-TimeOverviewThe Princeton DMIA Integration team is looking for a Data Engineer to own and evolve our data integration practice. You will be responsible for ingesting data from…
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Senior Data Management Professional - Data Engineer - Commodities Data
Bloomberg
Princeton, NJ
Bloomberg runs on data. Our products are fueled by powerful information. We combine data and context to paint the whole picture for our clients, around the clock – from around the world. In…
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Data Engineer
Citigroup
Jersey City, NJ
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Data Engineer
ManpowerGroup
Jersey City, NJ
Our client, a leading organization in the data-driven industry, is seeking a Data Engineer to join their dynamic team. As a Data Engineer, you will be an integral part of the Data…
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Sr. Data Engineer
JSMN International Inc
Jersey City, NJ
Gather, arrange, process and model data. Design, develop, create, test, enhance, customize and implement advance software module components in complex computer environments. Analyze and…
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Cloud Data Engineer
Insurance Service Office, Inc.
Jersey City, NJ
Insurance Services Office, Inc. seeks a Cloud Data Engineer in Jersey City, NJ.
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Data Engineer
Insurance Service Office, Inc.
Jersey City, NJ
Insurance Services Office, Inc. seeks a Data Engineer in Jersey City, NJ.
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Data Engineer
Zelis
Morristown, NJ
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Data Engineer
Zelis Healthcare, LLC
Morristown, NJ
- $15.92 USD / hour
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Senior Data Engineer
CenterWell
Trenton, NJ
The Senior Data Engineer Designs, builds, and maintains data processing architectures and solutions enabling the efficient conversion of structured and unstructured data to insights at…
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Data Engineer - People Analytics
CVS Health
Trenton, NJ
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Data Engineer
SICL AMERICA INC
Cinnaminson, NJ
Data Engineer: Design and develop scalable data solutions using SQL and Snowflake. Build and maintain ETL/ELT pipelines, optimize SQL queries, perform data validation, and support data…
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Sr. Data Engineer
Voto Consulting LLC
North Brunswick, NJ
- $169,541 USD / year
Sr. Data Engineer (North Brunswick, NJ) – Design & develop data models that support Power BI reports & dashboards; design, develop, & maintain Power BI reports & dashboards that provide…
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Data Engineer
Digpulse Technologies Inc.
Cherry Hill, NJ
Critical role designing, developing and maintaining scalable data pipelines, data sets, and systems for the company’s data infrastructure. Will be collaborating with stakeholders to…
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Data Engineer
Digpulse Technologies Inc.
Cherry Hill, NJ
Critical role designing, developing and maintaining scalable data pipelines, data sets, and systems for the company’s data infrastructure. Will be collaborating with stakeholders to…

Quest Diagnostics Inc

Data Engineer (Remote)

Secaucus, NJ, United States

$15.92 USD / hour

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Job details

Pay: $15.92 USD / hour
Posting language: English
Posted: Sep 16, 2026

Original job description

Experience Required

3 - 5 years

Minimum Education Required

Master Degree

Compensation

$15.92 / Hourly

Hours Per Week

Number Of Positions

Shift

First Shift (Day)

Job Description

In this role, you will be responsible for designing, developing, testing, and deploying highly scalable, high performance data integration and transformation solutions in Quest's enterprise data platform and the HAS data product. You will work with business customers to design large-scale data processing solutions, develop data pipelines optimized for scaling, and designing, building, and implementing data-driven systems to guide Quest's reporting and analytics. This includes developing processes and solutions for mining, acquiring, transforming, standardizing, enhancing, migrating, verifying, and modeling Quest's enterprise data. In addition, you will enable and assist advanced analytics initiatives that are building, training, deploying, and refining AI/ML models that efficiently analyze vast quantities of data to best serve our patient population.

Responsibilities:

Act as a trusted technical advisor to business customers and internal teams, solving complex data challenges related to healthcare analytics.

Engineer and prepare both internal and customer-facing datasets, ensuring strict adherence to defined technical specifications, internal data standards, and external Statements of Work (SOWs).

Develop and maintain robust, scalable data pipelines to acquire, transform, and provision data for analytics and data science initiatives.

Design and build data models within cloud data warehouses (e.g., Google BigQuery, Snowflake) that are optimized for performance and scalability.

Collaborate with SD3 Data Scientists to productionize and manage the handoff of machine learning model inferences into our persistent data stores.

Partner with architecture and lead engineers to implement and adhere to modern DevSecOps standards, including CI/CD and version control using GitHub.

Ensure all data solutions are compliant with data governance, security policies, and healthcare regulations (e.g., HIPAA).

Contribute to organizational improvements in processes and technology by adopting new tools and best practices in data engineering.

Perform and support unit, integration, and performance testing to ensure that quality and reliability of data pipelines.

Qualifications:

Required WorkExperience:

3-5 years of data development experience with a focus on building data pipelines and ETL processes

3-5 years of experience with the cloud (AWS, Azure and/or Google Cloud Platform) - GCP experience highly preferred

3-5 years of experience in cloud-based data warehouses (Snowflake, Google BigQuery, Amazon Redshift, Azure Synapse Analytics)

3-5 years of experience with cloud-based ETL/ELT tools (Matillion, Glue, Data Factory). Matillion experience is strongly preferred.

Bachelor's Degree (Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, Mathematics, Business Analytics, or relevant degree)

Preferred Work Experience:

Experience with version control systems (Git)

Understanding of and willingness to embrace Agile Principles (Scrum)

Master's Degree (Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, Mathematics, Business Analytics, or relevant degree)

Physical and Mental Requirements:

Open mindset, ability to quickly adapt new technologies and learn new practice

Knowledge:

Demonstrated knowledge of SQL, Java, Python, C/C++, Scala, Julia, and/or other modern data and analytics programming languages

Demonstrated knowledge of data modeling principles and database systems.

Familiarity with containerization technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes) is a plus.

Demonstrated knowledge of operating systems (macOS, Microsoft Windows, Linux, Solaris and/or UNIX)

Skills:

Coding

Data Warehousing

Database schema optimization

Database Systems

Critical thinking skills

Business communication

ETL

69368

Quest Diagnostics honors our service members and encourages veterans to apply.

While we appreciate and value our staffing partners, we do not accept unsolicited resumes from agencies. Quest will not be responsible for paying agency fees for any individual as to whom an agency has sent an unsolicited resume.

Equal Opportunity Employer: Race/Color/Sex/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity/Religion/National Origin/Disability/Vets or any other legally protected status.

Place of Work

On-site

Requisition ID

69368

Job Type

Full Time

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Process data
Reporting
ML
Data models
BigQuery
Snowflake
CI/CD
GitHub
Data engineering
AWS
Microsoft Azure
Google Cloud
Amazon Redshift
Google Analytics
Computer science
Control systems
Git
Agile
Scrum
SQL
Oracle Java
Python
C
C++
Scala
Julia
Programming languages
Data modelling
Database management systems
Docker
Kubernetes
Apple macOS
Microsoft Windows
Linux
Oracle Solaris
UNIX
Data warehousing
Critical thinking
Communication skills

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