Top Senior Data Engineer Jobs in Denver & Boulder, CO

Leads and develops a data engineering team implementing Navigate360 integrations for partner campuses. Oversees integration design, data mapping, validation, reconciliation, quality controls, delivery planning, and scalable implementation processes. Partners with Product, Launch, and Partner Success teams to resolve technical and partner challenges, improve adoption, manage project health, and ensure reliable outcomes. Provides technical mentorship, code and design review, stakeholder communication, and continuous process improvement.

Design, build, and own business-critical data pipelines and infrastructure across warehouses, orchestration, BI, and multiple regions. Develop AWS Glue and Spark jobs, data models, event contracts, observability, and batch or streaming architectures. Collaborate across producer and consumer teams, support Federal workloads, and operate production data platforms in government cloud environments.

Designs and develops data infrastructure, ETL pipelines, prototypes, and enterprise data assets supporting analytics and Data Science. Partners with business users, data scientists, and analytic engineers to deliver solutions from ideation through implementation. Responsibilities include data exploration, testing, validation, monitoring, predictive-modeling support, data visualization, and functional test execution. Provides technical guidance and mentors team members while promoting innovation and process improvement.

Lead the architecture and development of scalable AWS-based data ingestion, transformation, and orchestration pipelines. Build reliable data infrastructure using Python, SQL, Airflow, Lambda, ECS, SQS, and Terraform. Establish data modeling, quality, lineage, monitoring, testing, and observability practices while partnering with analysts, scientists, and backend engineers. Mentor senior engineers, guide technical decisions, and provide hands-on leadership for complex data platform initiatives.

Lead the architecture and development of Vercel’s next-generation data platform, supporting batch and real-time integrations, analytics, data warehousing, and AI/ML workloads. Design scalable systems using Kafka, ClickHouse, Tinybird, and Snowflake; establish data governance and security standards; guide architectural decisions and roadmaps; collaborate with engineering, product, security, compliance, and leadership teams; write production code; and mentor engineers.

Architect and lead enterprise data platforms, pipelines, and infrastructure using Spark, Databricks, and cloud technologies. Build scalable data models and dimensional schemas, establish governance and data quality frameworks, optimize performance and reliability, and implement monitoring. Partner with stakeholders to translate requirements into technical solutions, lead design reviews, mentor engineers, contribute to platform strategy, troubleshoot complex failures, and support hiring and team development.

Designs, builds, and maintains scalable ETL and data processing pipelines supporting analytics, forecasting, risk, and customer insights. Leads complex SQL development, data modeling, governance, quality, lineage, security, and compliance. Partners with engineering, finance, sales, compliance, product, analysts, and data scientists to translate requirements into reliable workflows. Evaluates emerging technologies, leads proof-of-concepts, and develops automated solutions using Python, Spark, Databricks, cloud platforms, orchestration tools, and modern data warehouses.

Leads the design, development, optimization, and migration of modern data platforms in Snowflake. Builds pipelines with dbt, Python, and cloud services; gathers client requirements; creates solution designs and project plans; advises on Snowflake performance, cost, security, and workload management; integrates BI, governance, and AI/ML tools; contributes to accelerators and mentors junior engineers. The role is remote, client-facing, consultative, and focused primarily on technical delivery rather than sales.

Build and operate batch and streaming data pipelines, ETL/ELT workflows, data warehouses, dimensional models, and reusable data services. Improve reliability, performance, quality, and cost efficiency through monitoring, testing, automation, and incident response. Partner with analytics, data science, product, business, platform, and infrastructure teams to deliver production data solutions and roadmap initiatives. Apply AI-assisted tools responsibly to development, testing, documentation, and troubleshooting.

Own and operate the Snowflake warehouse and Sigma semantic layer; manage ingestion (Fivetran), dbt model scoping and review, reverse-ETL, data quality SLAs, dashboards, month-end financial analytics, vendor management, and automation to support AdOps, Sales, Finance, and executive reporting.

Build and maintain Databricks-based data platforms, including ingestion, transformation, storage, governance, data modeling, and serving pipelines. Establish medallion architecture standards, canonical data models, quality controls, lineage, schema evolution, and reliable batch or incremental processing. Improve pipeline observability, scalability, idempotency, and recoverability while moving curated data to systems such as ClickHouse. Collaborate across application and analytics teams to create durable, governed production datasets.

Build and operate scalable batch, streaming, and event-driven data pipelines, cloud data platforms, trusted data products, and analytical models. Improve data quality, observability, reliability, performance, and cost efficiency while supporting risk, finance, product, analytics, and AI initiatives. Partner cross-functionally, influence architecture, lead complex technical initiatives, mentor engineers, and establish strong engineering practices including testing, CI/CD, governance, and infrastructure automation.

Lead the architecture and evolution of enterprise-scale data platforms, applying distributed-systems and advanced data-modeling patterns. Establish technical standards across dbt, Airflow, Snowflake, Kafka, ETL, cloud infrastructure, security, monitoring, CI/CD, testing, and source control. Solve complex data problems, partner with senior leaders, provide technical governance, mentor engineers, and drive platform and process improvements.

Designs and advances Providence’s enterprise data platform through data architecture, governance, metadata management, Snowflake modernization, legacy migrations, and scalable integration patterns. Establishes engineering, DataOps, CI/CD, repository, and data quality standards while supporting analytics, reporting, AI, and data products. Collaborates across multidisciplinary teams to implement large-scale data initiatives in a healthcare environment.

Lead data engineering strategy and develop enterprise data lake solutions on AWS. Build data pipelines using AWS data integration, engineering, and analytics resources, develop API services with FastAPI or Flask, optimize engineering practices, create long-term data plans, and represent the team in executive meetings.

Build and own scalable data architecture, canonical data models, configurable source integrations, and reliable pipelines for AI-driven financial intelligence. Use SQL, Python, dbt, cloud data warehouses, and orchestration tools to deliver idempotent, auditable data workflows. Establish lineage, data contracts, quality controls, and schema evolution practices. Lead architecture reviews, mentor distributed data engineers, and support customer-hosted multi-cloud deployments with strict tenant isolation and traceability.

Build and maintain dbt and semantic data models in Snowflake, develop ingestion and transformation pipelines, define trusted product metrics, and improve data collection. Partner with Product and Engineering to support experimentation and feature analysis. Establish data quality testing, documentation, HIPAA-aware access controls, and compliance practices. Use and validate AI-generated code and Snowflake Cortex outputs while raising technical standards across the team.

Own the analytics data layer by translating stakeholder needs into certified dimensional models, governed metrics, semantic layers, dashboards, and reports. Build with dbt, SQL, Databricks, Power BI, and Airflow while ensuring data quality, observability, reconciliation, documentation, and dependable orchestration. Partner closely with finance, operations, and client-facing teams, automate recurring workflows, and use AI-assisted engineering practices in a fully remote environment.

Design, build, and operate production data pipelines using Python, Spark SQL, and Airflow. Canonicalize healthcare and customer data into trusted internal models, optimize distributed processing, enforce schemas, and implement quality checks and observability. Support customer onboarding, streaming pipelines, troubleshooting, on-call operations, and platform best practices while collaborating with product, analytics, engineering, data science, and customer teams.

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.

Develop and optimize enterprise Oracle SQL and PL/SQL solutions, including data models, database designs, APIs, ETL processes, batch jobs, and performance tuning. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate requirements into scalable implementations, support testing and CI/CD, troubleshoot production issues, and document solutions. Provide technical leadership, mentor engineers, participate in architecture and code reviews, and drive engineering best practices across data modernization initiatives.

Design, build, and operate scalable ETL/ELT pipelines and backend data services using Go. Integrate relational, NoSQL, blockchain, API, web, and social data sources; develop NLP pipelines for text extraction and classification; and support production APIs, dashboards, alerts, and intelligence systems. Collaborate with engineering, data science, and investigations teams on architecture, data quality, lineage, validation, monitoring, and client-facing products.

Design, build, and maintain scalable batch and streaming data pipelines using Python, SQL, Kafka, and GCP. Develop REST and GraphQL data services, CI/CD automation, observability, and data-quality frameworks. Integrate ML and NLP models into production workflows, including continuous retraining and real-time inference. Support structured and unstructured healthcare datasets, distributed systems, microservices, and reliable data infrastructure while collaborating with data science and MLOps teams.

Build and configure a government Databricks workspace, develop ingestion and integration pipelines from enterprise and legacy systems, and prepare data for reporting. Implement Unity Catalog governance, metadata management, auditing, and lineage; configure MLflow workflows; assess security controls for sensitive data; and create architecture documentation, data dictionaries, and SOPs to support long-term sustainment.

Lead the design and optimization of healthcare data pipelines integrating EHR, payer, HIE, and vendor data. Build AWS-based ETL/ELT infrastructure, reusable integration tooling, data quality monitoring, and ML enablement foundations. Ensure HIPAA-compliant handling of clinical data, including security controls, audit logging, encryption, and de-identification. Provide technical leadership, mentor engineers, influence platform architecture, and lead complex partner integrations involving FHIR, HL7v2, CCDA, and healthcare terminology standards.