Top Data Engineer Jobs in Charlotte, NC

Design and develop data pipelines, integrations, transformations, and infrastructure across AWS, Snowflake, Airflow, and MySQL. Troubleshoot warehouse issues, validate data quality, improve pipeline reliability, and translate business needs into data engineering solutions. Interpret technical findings for client recommendations, manage workstreams, review junior team members’ work, and provide technical guidance across managed services engagements.

Leads enterprise-scale data architecture across batch, streaming, warehouse, lakehouse, transactional, AI, and vector-store use cases. Establishes data quality, governance, lineage, observability, access-control, and reliability standards. Defines AI-enabled data engineering patterns, mentors engineers, resolves complex architecture issues, and influences cross-functional roadmaps. Requires hands-on technical leadership and 15+ years of software, data engineering, or architecture experience.

Build and maintain automated data quality testing for customer data pipelines. Responsibilities include developing dbt, Soda, and SQL checks; validating schemas, loads, sequencing, and downstream reconciliations; detecting anomalies; managing severity levels and customer overrides; reporting quality metrics; and partnering with engineering teams to embed testing into new pipelines. The role requires strong backend testing, SQL, Python, Airflow, and Databricks experience, along with excellent debugging and communication skills.

Design, develop, and operate Lowe’s scalable Search Platform using OpenSearch and Elasticsearch. Build cloud-native services, REST APIs, and batch or near real-time data ingestion and ETL pipelines on Google Cloud. Improve indexing, search performance, reliability, and scalability while implementing monitoring, automation, and CI/CD. Troubleshoot production issues, contribute to architecture and code reviews, mentor engineers, and collaborate with platform and product teams.

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.

Provides principal-level technical leadership for a regulatory compliance and risk management platform. Leads architecture and engineering strategy across data ingestion, metadata, search, audit capabilities, integrations, scalability, resiliency, observability, and operational efficiency. Advises leadership, resolves complex enterprise challenges, modernizes applications, defines technical standards, and mentors engineers while delivering reliable, traceable, production-ready solutions.

Plan and manage data center capacity across global sites, including power, space, cooling, racks, fiber ports, and cross-connects. Maintain allocation records, forecasting models, dashboards, and DCIM data. Translate infrastructure demand into rack-level deployment plans, identify capacity risks, support colo expansions, reconcile physical and system inventories, and partner with operations, engineering, supply chain, and vendors. Contribute to automation and AI-enabled workflow improvements.

Build and maintain data pipelines, ETL/ELT workflows, dbt transformations, and analytics-ready data models across Domo and cloud warehouse environments. Integrate internal, marketing, advertising, CRM, API, and flat-file data sources. Monitor data quality, troubleshoot failures, optimize performance and costs, document lineage, and apply governance and access controls. Partner with analysts and business stakeholders to deliver reliable reporting and support migration from codeless to code-based workflows.

Provides Tier-2 support for voice networks, troubleshoots VoIP and network issues, configures voice equipment, monitors support tickets, manages DID porting activity, and supports PBX, call center, voicemail, carrier selection, and related telecommunications projects.

Build and support enterprise data ingestion, transformation, modeling, and integration solutions using Microsoft Fabric and Azure data services. Develop batch, API, file, database, and event-driven pipelines; create dimensional and curated data models; write and optimize SQL; resolve data-quality and pipeline issues; and support production workloads. Collaborate in Agile engineering processes using GitHub, Azure DevOps, CI/CD, code reviews, and reusable development standards.

Build and operate cloud data capabilities, including ingestion pipelines, transformations, data models, curated data products, and data-quality controls. Use Snowflake, dbt, SQL, and Python to deliver governed data for analytics, applications, automation, and AI workflows. Implement testing, CI/CD, documentation, lineage, access controls, monitoring, incident resolution, and performance optimization. Collaborate with engineering, analytics, governance, security, and business teams in an Agile, product-oriented environment with active AI-assisted development.

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.

Own customer data integration for hospital clients from late-stage sales through implementation handoff. Lead data discovery workshops, assess data environments, define integration requirements, configure the SaaS platform, and translate technical needs for clinical and IT stakeholders. Develop mapping documentation, scripts, templates, and internal tooling to accelerate onboarding. Partner with sales, implementation, product, and data engineering teams while ensuring HIPAA, SOC 2, PHI handling, and secure data-transfer compliance.

Design and maintain scalable AWS-based data pipelines, architectures, ETL/ELT workflows, databases, and big data solutions. Integrate and transform complex datasets using Python, SQL, Spark, Hadoop, and Kafka. Build data models, dashboards, reports, and analytics solutions while implementing data quality, governance, security, monitoring, and compliance processes. Support migrations and modernization projects, collaborating with data scientists, analysts, and business stakeholders to deliver reliable, decision-ready data.

Design, develop, test, and implement data engineering features using Python and PySpark. Build standalone scripts, perform complex data transformations, translate business requirements into technical solutions, troubleshoot data and software issues, and enhance existing frameworks. Apply object-oriented programming, coding best practices, automated testing, documentation, and large-scale data processing while collaborating with team members and working independently.

Leads end-to-end data engineering solutions, including pipeline design, data modeling, testing, deployment, optimization, production support, and data quality. Partners with stakeholders to develop cloud-based data platforms, prototypes, technical standards, and scalable analytic systems. Provides technical leadership, conducts design and code reviews, mentors team members, and ensures compliance with risk and data management policies.

Design and modify data solutions using Databricks and Palantir Foundry; build data models and reports from ERP and legacy-system datasets; define and execute tests; and translate stakeholder reporting needs into technical specifications. The role requires SQL, Python, PySpark, database architecture, cloud architecture, software engineering practices, independent execution, documentation, and collaboration. It supports an Army client in a hybrid Arlington, Virginia environment and requires an active Secret clearance.

Designs, develops, tests, documents, and maintains APIs, interfaces, data exchanges, connectors, and integration services. Analyzes system dependencies and data models; implements secure transformation, validation, orchestration, and event-driven integrations. Collaborates with security and data engineers on authentication, encryption, schemas, data quality, lineage, and operational requirements. Creates automated tests, technical documentation, runbooks, and release materials while troubleshooting complex cross-system data flows.

Build and maintain reliable data pipelines, computed tables, and scalable data models using SparkSQL and PySpark. Integrate IoT, product, customer, external, unstructured, and ML-related data into a central data lake for analytics, causal inference, model training, and dashboards. Ensure high data quality and uptime while collaborating with data science, analytics, AI/ML, and engineering teams.

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.

Designs, builds, tests, and maintains scalable data infrastructure and ETL/ELT pipelines for mission partners. Uses AWS Glue, Glue Catalog, and Step Functions to integrate, migrate, transform, and validate data. Develops data models, schemas, queries, and production-ready datasets while collaborating with analytics and business teams. The role may also support AI/ML pipelines, data governance, DevOps workflows, Databricks, and real-time streaming architectures.

Architects, builds, tests, and maintains scalable data infrastructure and ELT/ETL pipelines using AWS Glue, Glue Catalog, and Step Functions. Performs data modeling, SQL querying, data migration, schema optimization, validation, and data quality improvements. Partners with analytics and business teams to transform raw data into production-ready datasets. The role may also support AI/ML pipelines, governance, access controls, DevOps workflows, and real-time data architectures.

Lead client data migrations into DealCloud, including requirements gathering, ETL, data mapping, transformation, loading, validation, reconciliation, QA, and go-live support. The role also supports platform configuration, technical solution design, project documentation, status reporting, escalations, and post-launch client assistance. Success requires strong data integration, analytical, communication, and prioritization skills, along with familiarity with SaaS, CRM, cloud platforms, APIs, and financial services workflows.

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.

Designs, builds, operates, and modernizes secure ETL/ELT data pipelines for public health interoperability. Responsibilities include using NiFi, Kafka, Python, and SQL; deploying pipelines on Azure or AWS; implementing CI/CD with GitHub Actions; monitoring with Grafana; troubleshooting production systems; supporting legacy migrations; and ensuring data security, compliance, scalability, and reliability. The role collaborates with architects, integration engineers, data scientists, DevOps/SRE, and product teams.