Top Senior Data Engineer Jobs in Denver & Boulder, CO

Designs and leads production-grade batch, incremental, streaming, and real-time data pipelines across Microsoft Fabric and Azure. Builds Delta Lake medallion architectures, dimensional and Data Vault models, CDC and incremental-loading solutions, CI/CD automation, governance, security, observability, and data-quality controls. Supports migrations to Fabric, prepares governed data for AI and RAG workloads, and leads client-facing engineering workstreams, estimates, risk management, mentoring, and operational handover.

Own PushPress’s data platform, including ingestion, orchestration, cloud warehouse performance, governance, privacy, data quality, monitoring, and AI-ready data foundations. Build reliable pipelines integrating product, payment, and third-party data; establish data contracts, access controls, auditability, and semantic definitions; support real-time analytics and trustworthy reporting. Partner with Engineering, Data, and AI teams while maintaining infrastructure, incident response, documentation, and operational runbooks.

Build and own production data infrastructure for a healthcare AI platform. Responsibilities include REST API ingestion, Azure Event Hubs streaming into Databricks, Delta Lake medallion pipelines, entity resolution, semantic metrics, data-quality instrumentation, reconciliation, schema-drift handling, and troubleshooting source-to-warehouse discrepancies. The role requires strong Python and SQL skills, independent pipeline ownership, and experience with Databricks, Spark, PySpark, streaming, and healthcare-related data is a plus.

Designs trusted Snowflake data products and enterprise semantic models that standardize business concepts, metrics, relationships, and rules. Builds Cortex semantic views and agents, validates AI-generated results, develops regression tests, and maintains metadata, lineage, and documentation. Leads modeling initiatives from discovery through production while partnering with business and technical stakeholders to improve analytics, automation, and AI consistency.

Build and guide data platform capabilities supporting marketing, finance, analytics, and data science. Develop data collection, integration, scoring, experimentation, analytics, and infrastructure solutions; contribute code, lead cross-functional technical initiatives, improve system resiliency through incident response, and establish engineering standards. Partner with business and technical stakeholders to define strategy and long-term roadmaps.

Lead financial data engineering initiatives involving commissions, incentive programs, and backend financial systems. Build scalable, accurate, and reliable data pipelines, platform tooling, partner integrations, analytics infrastructure, and data science infrastructure. Shape technical strategy and roadmaps, collaborate with Finance, Product, Data Science, and Engineering, mentor engineers, contribute code, lead incident response, and establish engineering standards.

Designs, develops, and maintains scalable cloud-based data pipelines and enterprise data solutions. The role covers data ingestion, transformation, orchestration, integration, data lakes, cloud warehouses, batch and streaming processes, performance optimization, governance, and lineage. The Senior Data Engineer collaborates with analysts, data scientists, engineers, stakeholders, contractors, and vendors while mentoring junior staff. Core tools include Databricks, dbt, Azure Data Factory, SQL, Python, and Azure.

Design, build, and scale enterprise data products, pipelines, and platform capabilities using Databricks, Spark, Python, SQL, and cloud technologies. Modernize analytical solutions into governed production systems while implementing data quality, observability, lineage, security, monitoring, and governance. Partner with product, analytics, architecture, and business teams on technical design and complex data initiatives. Optimize platform performance and reliability, troubleshoot issues, establish engineering standards, and mentor other engineers.

Own and evolve WorkOS’s internal data platform, including ingestion, orchestration, Snowflake, dbt models, data governance, reverse ETL, semantic views, and AI-enabled data workflows. Ensure pipeline reliability, freshness, security, and scalability while partnering with Product, Finance, RevOps, GTM, Engineering, and Security. Build monitoring, runbooks, CI/CD gates, access controls, masking policies, and infrastructure automation across AWS and Kubernetes.

Build and scale secure data lakehouse and warehouse infrastructure supporting analytics, machine learning, clinical AI performance monitoring, and self-service insights. Develop scalable data pipelines, models, orchestration, quality controls, and LLM-enabled analytics tools using heterogeneous clinical and EHR data. Collaborate with engineering, data science, clinical, product, and client success teams to establish trustworthy metrics and technical solutions.

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 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.

Own the technical design and operation of Palmetto’s governed data platform. Build trusted data products, semantic models, ingestion and transformation pipelines, secure access interfaces, and agent-ready data services. Establish governance, masking, authorization, observability, CI/CD, and audit readiness. Partner with finance, operations, product, and engineering teams while mentoring engineers and setting cross-team technical direction.

Build scalable data ingestion, transformation, and loading infrastructure using Spark, SQL, AWS, and Databricks. Develop entity resolution systems, CI/CD pipelines, anomaly detection, and high-quality data products. Design scalable processing and storage patterns, orchestration workflows, and data warehousing solutions while collaborating remotely and documenting technical designs.

Designs, develops, maintains, and optimizes complex data systems, SQL databases, ETL processes, data warehouses, reports, and .NET applications supporting pharmacy benefit management. Responsibilities include database performance tuning, troubleshooting pharmacy claims processes, developing scalable solutions, documenting technical designs, participating in Agile ceremonies, collaborating with stakeholders, mentoring teammates, and ensuring healthcare data compliance.

Build and operate production data and streaming systems across edge, hybrid, OT, IoT, and enterprise environments. Responsibilities include developing connectors, real-time event-driven pipelines, data contracts, schemas, validation, lineage, observability, telemetry, federated query patterns, and reliable integration platforms supporting analytics and AI. The role requires strong ownership, system design, documentation, incident readiness, and collaboration with engineering and customer-facing teams.

Design, build, deploy, and maintain AWS-based data and AI/ML infrastructure for enterprise agentic AI platforms. Develop data lake pipelines, observability systems, agent-enablement tooling, and production MLOps/LLMOps capabilities. Own features end-to-end, contribute to architecture and design decisions, optimize reliability, scalability, security, and cost, and collaborate with AWS Professional Services, client teams, and junior engineers.

Designs and productionizes hybrid knowledge graph solutions for healthcare and clinical data using LPG and RDF technologies. Builds FHIR transformation and ingestion pipelines, implements ontology mappings, entity linking, identifiers, provenance, validation, and graph queries with Cypher or SPARQL. Collaborates with ontology, terminology, FHIR, clinical, and data engineering teams, while contributing to architecture reviews, code reviews, testing, and engineering best practices.

Build customer-facing data products for the single-family rental market. Responsibilities include architecting real estate data models, designing reliable data pipelines and workflows, shaping data platform architecture, establishing engineering standards, and developing real estate domain expertise. The role partners with data science and product teams and requires leadership in scalable data engineering.

Designs and implements scalable data pipelines, cloud data platforms, storage solutions, and analytics infrastructure. The role focuses on Snowflake and AWS architecture, migrating legacy systems to cloud environments, developing Python and SQL data-processing logic, orchestrating workflows, and implementing Infrastructure-as-Code and CI/CD. The engineer also contributes to data governance, quality, observability, stakeholder communication, mentoring, and technical leadership.

Build and operate production pipelines for legal records from PACER, court systems, opinions, PDFs, scans, XML, and HTML. Develop LLM-assisted extraction workflows, validate data quality, optimize SQL, and support RAG and semantic search products. Manage AWS S3 and RDS systems within security guardrails while collaborating with engineering teams. The role requires strong Python and SQL skills, legal data experience, document extraction expertise, and autonomous problem-solving with large, messy datasets.

Lead enterprise data engineering efforts supporting defense missions. Responsibilities include prioritizing technical tasks, mentoring engineers, conducting code reviews, translating government requirements into scalable data architectures, developing Databricks ETL/ELT pipelines with Python, PySpark, and SQL, troubleshooting pipeline performance and reliability, and documenting systems. The role collaborates with government stakeholders, product owners, data scientists, analysts, and technical teams to deliver secure, high-throughput data platforms and actionable insights.

Designs and maintains scalable Azure data pipelines and ETL/ELT solutions across data lakes, warehouses, lakehouses, streaming platforms, and enterprise sources. Builds integrations using Azure Data Factory, Synapse, Databricks, Spark, Kafka, and related services; applies security, governance, monitoring, and performance optimization practices. Develops Power BI dashboards, reports, data models, and visualizations, while supporting analytics and AI/ML use cases. Collaborates in Agile teams and automates deployments through DevOps and CI/CD practices.

Designs and operates data infrastructure for a clinical trial platform. Builds pipelines that extract, normalize, validate, and link information from clinical documents and publications into Aurora and GraphDB. Develops embeddings, vector search, RAG workflows, data-serving APIs, lineage tracking, and regulatory audit trails. The role also requires AWS-based orchestration, clinical data quality controls, biomedical knowledge graph modeling, and deployment automation using infrastructure-as-code and containerization.

Designs and delivers backend systems, APIs, data models, ETL workflows, data interactions, and user interfaces. Optimizes data operations for scalability, performance, integrity, and security while contributing to automated testing and CI/CD. Requires strong Python and Apache Spark experience, distributed computing knowledge, Agile experience, and data analysis skills. The role supports healthcare-focused digital services in a remote-first environment.