Top Data Engineer Jobs in Charlotte, NC

Design, implement, and manage advanced data ecosystems and scalable ETL/ELT pipelines. Analyze complex problems, deliver data warehousing and governance solutions, mentor junior staff, and build client relationships while maintaining high standards and business-context awareness.

Lead design and implementation of enterprise data architecture and cloud-based data solutions. Manage large data engineering projects, develop data models and pipelines, ensure governance and security compliance, advise clients strategically, and build high-performing inclusive teams.

Administer and enhance Edmunds’ Databricks data platform and AWS infrastructure. Build and maintain ETL pipelines, infrastructure-as-code tooling using Terraform or CDK, and operational dashboards, alerts, and reports. Collaborate with business, engineering, analytics, security, and infrastructure teams to support data platform users and AI solutions. Evaluate new technologies, troubleshoot platform issues, and improve operational, cost, and security visibility.

Architects, deploys, and operates CrowdStrike’s data platform infrastructure and services. Responsibilities include administering Airflow and Superset, managing Terraform infrastructure, building CI/CD pipelines, implementing security and access controls, developing DBT data models, cataloging assets in OpenMetadata, writing Python automation, and mentoring engineers. The role requires cloud, container orchestration, SQL, data modeling, compliance, and AI technology expertise, along with eligibility for CJIS clearance.

Build and operate low-latency market data systems for institutional trading, including feed handlers, normalization pipelines, venue connectivity, and distribution services. Develop high-throughput services, improve reliability and performance through observability and incident response, participate in on-call support, and collaborate with engineering and product teams. The role requires production backend engineering experience, market data infrastructure expertise, Java or C++, messaging frameworks, and exchange connectivity protocols.

Define and govern enterprise-scale data architecture across batch, streaming, warehouse, lakehouse, transactional, and AI use cases. Establish standards for data quality, lineage, access, cataloging, governance, observability, and SLAs. Architect AI-enabled workflows, resolve complex architecture issues, influence roadmaps, and mentor engineers through hands-on technical leadership. The role requires 15+ years of software, data engineering, or architecture experience and expertise in large-scale data platforms and modeling.

Leads the design and implementation of enterprise data platforms supporting cybersecurity and technology risk functions. Builds scalable ETL/ELT pipelines, data models, integrations, streaming solutions, SQL services, and cloud-native platforms. Partners with cross-functional teams, resolves complex production issues, leads architecture reviews, mentors engineers, and applies AI-assisted development responsibly while meeting security, compliance, privacy, and governance requirements.

Designs and operates scalable GCP data pipelines, reusable engineering frameworks, feature stores, orchestration workflows, and governed data models supporting AI and machine learning. Builds Python, SQL, and Beam transformation libraries; ensures workload cost, performance, reliability, quality, lineage, and observability; and partners with data scientists migrating models to GCP. The role also documents best practices, provides enablement, and supports production systems during off-hours.

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.

Builds and maintains scalable ETL processes, database systems, data products, and real-time or offline analytics tools. Integrates large-scale data, ensures pipeline reliability and data integrity, translates business requirements into maintainable code, and supports analytical solutions such as Tableau dashboards. Partners with stakeholders, troubleshoots production issues, conducts testing and releases, provides data guidance, and trains users on tools and data sources.

Staff Data Engineer will set technical direction and build Eve’s scalable data platform. Responsibilities include Snowflake administration, role-based access, governance, ingestion, dbt modeling and orchestration, Terraform infrastructure, observability, schema change detection, reliability practices, and CI standards. The role also mentors engineers and analysts, supports AI-assisted development, and establishes secure, reliable workflows for product, case, customer, and go-to-market data.

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.

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.

Designs, develops, tests, and supports AML data pipelines, reporting solutions, integrations, workflows, and reusable data components. Performs data validation, reconciliation, quality control, troubleshooting, performance optimization, production support, and platform resiliency activities. Translates business requirements into scalable technical solutions, contributes to Agile delivery and testing, documents operational procedures, and collaborates with business, product, and technology stakeholders to improve AML data platforms and meet regulatory needs.

Designs and supports testing of industrial screw pumps for defense applications. Collects, databases, visualizes, and analyzes CMM and pump test data; develops regression and predictive models; automates reporting; documents nonconformances; and creates dashboards for stakeholders. Collaborates with design, manufacturing, quality, sales, and program teams to improve product robustness, testing, engineering standards, and manufacturing processes. Provides customer support and contributes to technical documentation and process improvements.

Leads the design and development of data engineering and AI-enabled solutions for legal, client, and internal business applications. Builds Python and SQL workflows for structured and unstructured data, integrates generative AI and APIs, validates AI outputs, establishes human-in-the-loop quality controls, and supports responsible AI governance. Collaborates with attorneys and technical teams, evaluates emerging technologies, prototypes self-service tools, and provides technical guidance to less experienced professionals.

Design, build, and maintain scalable Spark-based ETL pipelines and computed tables in a central data lake. Integrate structured and unstructured IoT, sensor, and external data for analytics, model training, and dashboards. Collaborate with Data Science, Analytics, and ML teams to ensure reliable, high-quality customer-facing datasets.

Build and support scalable data platforms and pipelines, leading migrations such as Snowflake to BigQuery and transitioning reporting to Looker. Responsibilities include data architecture, ETL/ELT, API and marketing integrations, data quality, production troubleshooting, warehousing, performance optimization, and platform modernization. The role partners with analytics and business teams, owns projects through production, documents solutions, and provides technical guidance.

Configure and maintain Adobe Experience Platform and Real-Time CDP data pipelines, XDM schemas, datasets, identity resolution, Profile enablement, segmentation readiness, and destination activation. Validate data quality, troubleshoot ingestion and identity issues, manage sandboxes, and implement privacy, consent, governance, and access controls. Partner with architects, data engineers, consultants, analysts, data scientists, and marketing teams to support reporting, personalization, and machine learning readiness.

Design and manage financial systems for accurate cashback calculations, build and maintain reconciliation processes, ensure data integrity for yield-bearing instruments, collaborate with compliance, and partner with cross-functional teams to improve financial system efficiency.

Designs and leads AWS-native data foundations for enterprise AI applications, including knowledge graphs, ontologies, semantic layers, vector indexes, retrieval systems, and LLM grounding datasets. Builds Python and SQL pipelines using AWS services, establishes data models and governance standards, integrates identity-based access controls, and monitors data and retrieval quality. The role also mentors engineers and citizen developers, sets technical direction, and communicates with cross-functional stakeholders.

Design, build, and maintain scalable data pipelines, data models, and analytics solutions using Microsoft Fabric and Azure. Develop Lakehouse and Warehouse architectures, Fabric Notebooks with PySpark and Spark SQL, ETL/ELT workflows, and Power BI semantic models. Optimize performance, ensure data quality, security, governance, and regulatory compliance, and collaborate with analysts, data scientists, and business stakeholders to support business intelligence and advanced analytics.

Own production data ingestion pipelines for healthcare and benefits data, including normalization, mapping, validation, reconciliation, observability, and secure handling of sensitive information. Unify census data processes, scale the platform, improve identity matching, and build automation and TypeScript tooling. The role requires strong Python and SQL skills, production orchestration experience, reliable testing and data-quality practices, and effective communication with technical and nontechnical stakeholders.

Build and maintain Databricks data pipelines, ETL/ELT processes, SQL transformations, and Power BI dashboards for HR and People Analytics. Ensure data quality, optimize models and reporting performance, troubleshoot issues, document solutions, and collaborate with HR stakeholders and technical teams to deliver scalable workforce analytics.

As a Principal Data Engineer, you will design and implement LLM, AI-powered security data platforms, mentor engineers, and drive the adoption of data solutions across teams.