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.

Build and maintain production data pipelines, dbt models, Airflow workflows, and governed datasets supporting People Analytics. Integrate Workday and other HR systems into reliable Snowflake data products, implement data quality monitoring, row-level security, semantic models, and AI agents. Partner with engineers, analysts, data scientists, and business stakeholders to deliver trusted data solutions, communicate technical trade-offs, enforce governance, and mentor other engineers.

Partners with sales teams to win strategic public-sector opportunities for data security solutions. Presents technical products, gathers customer requirements, leads hands-on evaluations, configures solutions, and designs evaluation test plans. Requires extensive sales engineering or systems integration experience, including 5+ years in pre-sales and 3+ years selling security or networking solutions. AI fluency, data protection, web technologies, SaaS, regulatory compliance, and matrix GTM experience are valuable.

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 operate scalable data pipelines, governed data models, semantic layers, and analytics products. Partner directly with business stakeholders to translate requirements into production-ready data and AI solutions. Develop SQL and Python applications, LLM and agentic workflows, retrieval systems, and automated testing. Ensure data quality, lineage, monitoring, reliability, cost efficiency, and compliance for PHI and genomic data. Collaborate with platform and AI teams on architecture, governance, CI/CD, and operational excellence.

Designs, builds, and operates scalable batch and streaming lakehouse pipelines using Databricks, Spark, PySpark, Delta Lake, and Unity Catalog. Responsibilities include data ingestion, transformation, governance, orchestration, performance optimization, CI/CD integration, monitoring, data quality, and documentation. The role supports analytics, machine learning, anomaly detection, fraud analytics, and risk scoring while collaborating with technical stakeholders and Agile teams. A Public Trust determination is required.

Leads a small data engineering team while contributing hands-on development. Responsibilities include designing and maintaining dbt and Python ETL pipelines, managing data quality and UAT, coordinating implementation timelines, conducting code reviews, mentoring engineers, documenting systems, and supporting project delivery. The role also involves building and deploying AI agents for data quality, pipeline monitoring, and analytics workflows, with a focus on healthcare claims data and large-scale datasets.

Develop and operate cloud-based data pipelines, dimensional data models, data warehouse solutions, CI/CD automation, and platform governance controls. The role integrates APIs and diverse data sources while supporting security, monitoring, incident response, and reliable data product delivery. Responsibilities include collaborating with product owners and engineering teams, participating in design and code reviews, troubleshooting technical issues, and applying repeatable DevOps practices.

Develops and maintains data engineering solutions using .NET technologies. The job description provides no additional responsibilities or qualifications.

Build and own AAG’s consolidated data warehouse, including production-grade infrastructure, ELT pipelines, dimensional models, and reporting layers. Integrate data from ERP, CRM, and manufacturing systems into Databricks on Azure, maintain reliable data flows, and support business decision-making across the organization. Collaborate with leadership to translate requirements into code, while managing system development, maintenance, documentation, and continuous improvement.

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.

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, 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.