Top Senior Data Engineer Jobs in Los Angeles, CA

Architects, deploys, and operates scalable data platform infrastructure supporting analytics. Responsibilities include administering Airflow and Superset, managing Terraform infrastructure, building CI/CD pipelines, implementing security and compliance controls, developing dbt data models, cataloging assets in OpenMetadata, automating with Python, and mentoring engineers. The role requires extensive infrastructure and data engineering experience, cloud expertise, container orchestration, and eligibility for CJIS clearance.

Build and operate production data pipelines, models, and data products supporting finance, accounting, treasury, compliance, and regulatory reporting. Partner cross-functionally to define requirements, model on-chain and internal data, and ensure data reliability through reconciliation, quality checks, monitoring, and alerting. Use SQL, Python, cloud data warehouse, Airflow, dbt, and AI tooling. Mentor engineers, review technical work, document systems, and communicate data concepts to technical and non-technical audiences.

Designs and maintains enterprise data pipelines and Microsoft Fabric solutions across CRM, finance, billing, and legal systems. Manages SQL Server administration, performance tuning, security, backups, high availability, disaster recovery, and data governance. Develops transformations using T-SQL, Python, and PySpark, implements monitoring and validation, and collaborates with application, infrastructure, and security teams. The role requires five years of data engineering, data warehousing, and SQL Server DBA experience, with a hybrid schedule and occasional on-call support.

Process and validate aircraft monitoring data, decode avionics bus data, troubleshoot C-17 systems, perform root cause analysis, develop data-mining algorithms, and provide technical recommendations to customers. The role supports program reviews, integrated product teams, design reviews, and aircraft health management for the C-17 fleet.

Designs and delivers large-scale, governed data pipelines and infrastructure across the full data lifecycle. Responsibilities include coding in Python and SQL, optimizing Airflow, dbt, AWS, Kafka, and Iceberg/Parquet workflows, implementing data quality and observability, contributing to architecture and tool evaluations, mentoring engineers, collaborating with stakeholders, and participating in on-call support.

Designs and leads manufacturing data architecture, repositories, models, integration patterns, pipelines, data services, and APIs. The role integrates complex data from equipment, sensors, quality, engineering, manufacturing, and enterprise systems; establishes standards and technical direction; and communicates risks and tradeoffs to senior stakeholders. Requires advanced SQL, programming, relational modeling, greenfield solution delivery, Secret or Top Secret clearance eligibility, flexible shift availability, and at least 10% travel.

Maintains and monitors Azure Databricks data pipelines, troubleshoots data issues, collaborates with stakeholders on data requirements, documents processes, performs backups and disaster recovery drills, and supports data access and usage. The role requires extensive data engineering experience, Azure expertise, incident management knowledge, and strong problem-solving skills.

Lead the reverse-engineering and migration of legacy ETL pipelines from SAP BusinessObjects Data Services and JD Edwards into dbt and Databricks architectures. Build automated data validation, maintain SQL Server write-back mechanisms, collaborate with client stakeholders, and lead and mentor a small engineering team. The role requires hands-on expertise in SQL, Python, Spark, orchestration, cloud platforms, and legacy ERP and ETL migrations.

Own Eve’s data platform end to end, including ingestion, orchestration, incremental dbt models, Snowflake administration, Terraform infrastructure, observability, access controls, and pipeline reliability. Build schema-change detection, freshness SLAs, CI environments, and incident processes while managing performance and compute costs. Partner with analytics engineers and stakeholders to maintain trusted data for reporting and AI systems, using AI-assisted development and documenting platform standards.

Leads the design, development, and operation of Astrana’s enterprise data platform. Builds scalable Databricks, Spark, PySpark, SQL, and Delta Lake pipelines; integrates healthcare data; develops unified data models and APIs; supports Lakebase and PostgreSQL applications; and implements governance, data quality, monitoring, CI/CD, automation, and performance optimization. The role also handles incidents, disaster recovery coordination, engineering standards, code reviews, and mentoring across internal and vendor teams.

Leads data architecture and engineering modernization across business domains. Designs and implements complex pipelines, integrations, data models, and orchestration using Snowflake, AWS, and Airflow. Establishes data quality, governance, security, testing, observability, CI/CD, and reliability practices. Provides architectural guidance, evaluates technical solutions, leads cross-team initiatives, mentors engineers, and improves platform performance and cost efficiency.

Build and maintain scalable Snowflake-based ELT/ETL pipelines, production data models, and observability frameworks. Translate business requirements into reliable solutions supporting analytics, BI, and ML. Establish data quality, governance, lineage, security, and compliance practices while optimizing warehouse performance, cost, and data freshness. Collaborate with Analytics, Product, and Engineering teams, contribute to architecture decisions, evaluate Snowflake tooling, and use AI-assisted development tools to accelerate delivery.

Designs, builds, and optimizes scalable data collection, storage, access, and analytics systems. Creates and automates reliable data pipelines, supports data quality and governance, ensures SLA and performance compliance, and monitors pipeline operations. The role requires collaboration with analytics, business, and customer teams, with potential work involving AI/ML pipelines, Databricks, DevOps practices, streaming data, and event-driven architectures.

Build and maintain scalable batch and incremental data pipelines using Python, SQL, and Snowflake. Develop data warehouse models, transformations, automation, quality checks, lineage, alerting, and performance optimizations. Collaborate with analysts, data scientists, and application teams to deliver trusted datasets, while documenting pipelines, schemas, and data contracts.

Build and maintain scalable batch and incremental data pipelines using Python, SQL, and Snowflake. Develop warehouse models, transformations, automation, data quality checks, lineage, alerting, and performance optimizations. Collaborate with analysts, data scientists, and application teams to deliver trusted datasets, while documenting pipelines, schemas, and data contracts.

Designs and maintains a scalable data platform supporting analytics, machine learning, and AI workloads. Builds tooling for reliable data pipelines, semantic layers, data agents, LLM applications, and evaluation systems. Ensures data quality, availability, observability, and reliability while establishing modeling, testing, and platform best practices. Collaborates with Data Science and Product Engineering, leads solutions from design through implementation, and contributes individually in a fast-paced startup environment.

Build and maintain scalable batch and streaming data pipelines, analytics warehouses, transformation layers, and dimensional data models. Perform SQL-based analysis, support dashboards and reporting, monitor data quality and delivery SLAs, troubleshoot incidents, and improve operational reliability. Collaborate with engineers, analysts, data scientists, and business stakeholders while contributing to documentation, governance, observability, and automation.

Build scalable data ingestion, transformation, and loading infrastructure using Spark, SQL, AWS, and Databricks. Develop entity resolution systems, CI/CD pipelines, anomaly detection, and data quality processes. Design scalable processing systems, orchestration workflows, storage patterns, and data warehouse solutions. Collaborate remotely, document technical designs, scope projects, and solve complex data engineering and data science problems.

Design, build, and operate scalable batch and streaming data pipelines, lakehouse and warehouse models, and data services. Own datasets end to end, improve Snowflake, Iceberg, Spark, and Flink performance and reliability, implement governance and observability, and support graph-serving data models. Partner with product and engineering teams, participate in on-call, review code and designs, and mentor junior engineers.

Designs scalable data architectures, ELT/ETL pipelines, data models, quality frameworks, and self-service data platforms. Partners with engineering, product, program, leadership, and data science teams to translate business needs into technical solutions. The role includes end-to-end technical ownership, large-scale batch and streaming data processing, mentoring junior engineers, system optimization, and on-call support for platform stability.

Own data pipelines into and out of the warehouse, dbt models, data integrity, governance, identity resolution, reverse ETL, and quality monitoring across growth, lifecycle, and brokerage data. Partner with product, marketing, and operations teams to establish data contracts, ensure accurate and timely business metrics, and support regulated financial data requirements.

Architects, deploys, and operates scalable data platform infrastructure supporting analytics. Responsibilities include administering Airflow and Superset, managing Terraform infrastructure, building CI/CD pipelines, enforcing security and compliance, developing DBT data models, cataloging assets in OpenMetadata, writing Python automation, and mentoring engineers. The role requires extensive infrastructure and data engineering experience across cloud platforms, containers, data security, and workflow orchestration.

Design and build scalable data infrastructure, including lakehouse architecture, ClickHouse deployments, ETL/ELT pipelines, and data models connecting Postgres with analytics systems. Establish data quality, observability, performance, cost, and reliability standards. Collaborate with product and engineering teams, define data contracts and specifications, support real-time analytics, and use AI-assisted coding and LLMs to accelerate pipeline development and transformation.

Leads the design, development, governance, and productization of enterprise data models, pipelines, data products, and ontologies. Builds machine-learning-ready datasets, implements security and lineage controls, optimizes Databricks and Delta Lake environments, establishes data-product standards, collaborates with architects and data scientists, and mentors engineering talent. The role also defines product roadmaps, service levels, usage metrics, and continuous-improvement processes for enterprise data assets supporting AI agents, analytics, and applications.

Staff Data Engineer responsible for setting technical direction, architecting scalable data platforms, leading cross-functional initiatives, improving reliability and performance, and enabling AI-assisted analytics and development. The role includes hands-on development with Python, SQL, cloud data warehouses, orchestration, infrastructure as code, Kubernetes, Kafka, and streaming pipelines, along with mentoring, technical advocacy, documentation, code reviews, and on-call troubleshooting.