Top Senior Data Engineer Jobs in Denver & Boulder, CO

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.

Data Engineer II will modernize BlueLabs’ data platform by leading Kimball dimensional modeling and legacy warehouse migrations, building reliable production data pipelines, and enforcing data quality standards. The role requires advanced SQL, Python, and dbt expertise, hands-on Snowflake and Redshift experience, and ownership of testing, documentation, observability, and scalable architecture. The engineer will collaborate cross-functionally, guide Data Engineer I team members, contribute to architectural decisions, and translate business logic into maintainable, cloud-agnostic data layers.

The AVP, Data Engineer will design and build data ingestion, transformation, and replication pipelines using SQL, Python, dbt, and Dagster. Responsibilities include translating requirements into technical designs, developing data products, debugging production issues, supporting testing, and improving data engineering practices. The role also involves data modeling, mentoring junior engineers, conducting code reviews, and providing technical leadership while remaining hands-on. Experience with modern data platforms, workflow orchestration, cloud ecosystems, and insurance or financial services is preferred.

Design and maintain Snowflake-based data platforms, cloud-native data lakes, and scalable ETL/ELT pipelines for asset-backed finance analytics. Orchestrate workflows with Dagster and AWS services, ensure data reconciliation and integrity, and support migration from legacy systems. Contribute to project planning, Jira backlog management, testing, cutover planning, and cross-functional go-live readiness.

Design and maintain Snowflake data pipelines and data lake architectures for asset-based finance analytics. Develop ETL/ELT workflows, validate and reconcile financial data, migrate legacy systems, and translate quantitative finance logic into scalable architectures. Support project execution through requirements breakdown, planning, testing, cutover, and go-live readiness. Collaborate across engineering, quantitative analytics, and stakeholder teams.

Design, build, and maintain scalable batch and streaming data pipelines using Databricks, PySpark, Python, SQL, Spark, and Delta Lake. Develop transformations, orchestration workflows, data models, validation processes, and curated data products. Troubleshoot performance and quality issues, apply governance and security practices, document solutions, and collaborate with architects, data scientists, DevOps teams, analysts, and clients.

Leads the design, development, and support of enterprise analytics, reporting, dashboards, and data models. Partners with business and technology teams to translate requirements into scalable solutions and actionable insights. Develops SQL transformations, Power BI and SSRS reports, and cloud analytics environments using AWS Athena, Snowflake, and Microsoft Fabric. Establishes data governance, quality, security, and reporting standards; troubleshoots complex issues; and provides technical leadership for modernization, cloud migration, mentoring, and continuous improvement initiatives.

Build governed, reusable Data 360 products and scalable transformation pipelines using SQL, Python, dbt, and Snowflake. Establish dimensional models, semantic layers, trusted metrics, data quality controls, lineage, and governance for clinical, laboratory, operational, and commercial data. Ensure PHI and genomic data compliance while integrating AI-native engineering practices. Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders, lead architecture decisions, validate data products, resolve complex data issues, and mentor engineers.

Build, operate, and improve Tala’s production data synchronization and change data capture pipelines across global markets. Deliver reliable, low-latency data to Snowflake using AWS, Kafka, Spark Structured Streaming, and lakehouse technologies. Improve scalability, performance, cost efficiency, data quality, monitoring, testing, CI/CD, and infrastructure as code. Troubleshoot incidents, lead root-cause analyses, document operational practices, contribute to architecture decisions, and collaborate with data, analytics, product, credit, and business teams.

Designs, builds, and optimizes enterprise data pipelines, warehouses, lakes, semantic models, and ETL/ELT solutions. Develops SQL and Power BI solutions, leads data modeling, ensures data quality and governance, resolves performance issues, and contributes to data architecture. Collaborates with HR stakeholders, analysts, data scientists, and technology teams to deliver scalable analytics and reporting platforms.

Leads the design, development, and optimization of scalable data pipelines and analytics platforms. Builds ETL/ELT workflows using Databricks and Spark, integrates and transforms source data into curated models, manages SQL Server data, and maintains documentation and lineage. Collaborates with product, analytics, and engineering teams to deliver reliable data solutions. Applies responsible AI practices and delivers projects independently within established timelines.

Design, build, and optimize enterprise ETL/ELT pipelines, cloud data lakes, lakehouse solutions, data models, and semantic layers across AWS and Azure. Ensure data quality, security, performance, reliability, and governance while supporting analytics, reporting, and AI initiatives. Collaborate with product, engineering, IT, and business stakeholders to translate requirements into scalable data solutions, monitor pipeline health, troubleshoot issues, and improve data architecture and practices.

Own Step’s analytics data models, transformation pipelines, metric definitions, semantic layer, and data quality practices. Partner with Product, Marketing, Engineering, Risk, Growth, and Finance to establish trustworthy data foundations and enable self-service analysis. Build reusable query, visualization, and code components; apply AI-augmented workflows; and collaborate with data scientists, analysts, and platform engineers. The role requires strong SQL, modeling, pipeline, BI, communication, and independent ownership skills, with occasional travel for team onsites.

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.

Design, build, and operate end-to-end data pipelines and models for healthcare claims and payer data. Responsibilities include ingestion, canonical and analytical data modeling, legacy process migration, data quality, testing, CI/CD, deployment, operations, incident response, tool integration, documentation, and onboarding new data sources. The role partners across ML, product, analytics, platform, operations, and customer teams while critically evaluating AI-generated engineering work.

Own Mux’s end-to-end data platform, including ingestion, Snowflake administration, dbt transformations, orchestration, data quality, observability, and reverse ETL. Build semantic models supporting AI agents, establish governance and reliability standards, and partner with Engineering, Finance, Product, and GTM. Use AI coding tools to develop and maintain pipelines while validating output quality. The role requires strong SQL, Python, data modeling, cloud warehouse administration, and production data engineering experience.

Designs, builds, and optimizes scalable Databricks-based data platforms, pipelines, integrations, and reusable engineering tools. The role focuses on platform performance, reliability, cost efficiency, security, governance, automation, and cloud infrastructure. It collaborates with engineering, analytics, security, and other stakeholders on architecture, technical planning, production support, and continuous improvement. The position requires hands-on data engineering experience with Databricks, cloud services, Python, SQL, Spark, infrastructure-as-code, and CI/CD practices.

Build and operate a governed Snowflake enterprise data warehouse, including ingestion, orchestration, dbt transformations, infrastructure as code, security controls, reliability checks, and CI/CD. Partner with data owners and BI teams during migration from legacy systems, ensure compliance for sensitive financial data, support reconciliation and incident resolution, and mentor engineers. The role requires hands-on ownership of pipelines and platform components across development and production environments.

Lead the architecture and development of Penn Foster Group’s Databricks-based cloud data platform. Build scalable batch, streaming, CDC, and API pipelines using Python, SQL, Spark, and Azure; establish engineering standards, governance, observability, and CI/CD practices; develop AI-ready semantic data products; and mentor data engineers. Partner with BI, product, security, governance, and MLOps teams to support analytics, machine learning, generative AI, and self-service reporting.

Own end-to-end client data migrations: reverse-engineer legacy ETL, design and build Airflow DAGs and Spark jobs, validate and reconcile data at scale, document architecture and decisions, and coordinate cross-functional teams through go-live and hypercare.

Lead production of marine and anadromous species range maps under FWS standards. Aggregate, normalize, transform, and validate spatial data; analyze habitat intersections; coordinate review cycles with FWS and NOAA Fisheries subject matter experts; document quality assurance; and obtain government sign-off for deliverables.

Designs and leads enterprise data pipelines and integrations across Snowflake, Oracle Fusion, on-premises databases, and cloud applications. Ensures data quality, governance, security, scalability, and performance while supporting Power BI, AI/ML, and self-service analytics. Partners with business and technical stakeholders, leads migrations, mentors engineers, optimizes data platforms, and establishes engineering best practices.

Designs, builds, deploys, and maintains scalable data pipelines, data lake systems, batch and streaming processing, MLOps frameworks, data documentation tooling, and an agentic data exploration platform. The role supports customer-facing products and enables engineering teams through reliable infrastructure, observability, data discovery, and AI capabilities.

Build and maintain production data ingestion, transformation, and pipeline systems for a governed federal data and AI platform. Develop data products, infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD workflows, monitoring, quality controls, cataloging, and access controls within FedRAMP, NIST 800-171, and CUI constraints. Support data science and machine learning teams, troubleshoot reliability and performance issues, and document engineering processes. The role is fully remote and requires U.S. citizenship and the ability to obtain a T5/SSBI adjudicated clearance.

Build and maintain production data pipelines that transform robot logs and telemetry into reliable, queryable datasets. Design Spark-based ETL workflows, orchestrate processing with Airflow or similar tools, manage gold-layer datasets, and implement data quality, schema evolution, monitoring, and metadata practices. Collaborate with robotics, hardware, reliability, analytics, and ML teams on data modeling, fleet insights, debugging, and root-cause analysis. The role may also contribute to Python, Java, or C++ libraries supporting data capture and consumption.