Top Data Engineer Jobs in Chicago, IL

Designs, builds, administers, and supports cloud data architectures, databases, schemas, metadata repositories, ETL processes, and analytic models. Leads data quality, governance, troubleshooting, testing, automation, reporting, dashboards, and infrastructure design. Collaborates with Agile teams to translate business requirements into technical capabilities and supports decision-making for Audit and business management. The role is full-time onsite at an eligible Federal Reserve location and requires extensive security screening.

Develop and optimize cloud-based data lakes and pipelines supporting analytics and machine learning. Build automated workflows using Python, SQL, Dagster, dbt, and comparable tools; transform raw data for reporting; and maintain secure, compliant handling of PII and PHI in a regulated SDLC. Collaborate with data scientists, product teams, and engineers to solve technical challenges and improve the data platform.

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.

Design, build, and operate big-data and streaming platforms (Kafka, Hadoop, Dremio). Develop, deploy, and monitor data pipelines using Java, Python, Spark/Flink; collaborate on data modeling and ingestion, ensure data integrity and availability, act as a Big Data SME, and perform root-cause analysis.

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.

Architect, deploy, and operate core data platform services (Airflow, Superset, Terraform). Build CI/CD pipelines, automate with Python, manage cloud infrastructure, implement security and compliance, develop dbt data models, catalog assets in OpenMetadata, and mentor junior engineers.

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.

Design and build data infrastructure, pipelines, and transformations using Azure Data Factory, Azure Databricks, and Snowflake. Develop data architecture and modeling, maintain data lakes/warehouses, ensure data quality and security, optimize performance, and collaborate with clients to deliver tailored data solutions and governance.

Lead design and implementation of scalable data infrastructure, pipelines, and transformations using cloud platforms. Build and optimize data warehouses (Snowflake, Databricks), orchestrate workflows (Airflow, Hadoop), ensure data quality and security, and coach teams to deliver analytics solutions that drive tax practice insights and client outcomes.

Lead design and implementation of data infrastructure, pipelines, and warehouses using Azure Data Factory, Databricks, and Snowflake. Manage data modeling, quality, security, and analytics frameworks. Lead client accounts, mentor teams, and drive innovation to deliver data-driven business insights.

Own and maintain dbt data models across design, testing, deployment, monitoring, and documentation. Translate ambiguous Marketing and Product needs into reliable data solutions, write design documents, support production issues, create runbooks and schema documentation, and coach junior engineers. The role uses SQL, Python, Snowflake, dbt, Dagster, and AWS while partnering closely with Marketing, Data, and MarTech teams.

Build and operate scalable healthcare data pipelines, dbt models, event-driven services, APIs, and Google Cloud infrastructure. Model and govern multimodal EHR, genomic, and imaging data for AI agents across federated hospital networks. Ensure data quality, lineage, observability, security, HIPAA compliance, and production reliability while contributing to TypeScript application services and agentic workflows.

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.

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.

Leads data engineering development across Agile teams, designing, building, testing, implementing, and supporting cloud-based solutions. Manages developers working with machine learning, distributed microservices, full-stack systems, big data, real-time streaming, data warehouses, and NoSQL technologies. Uses Java, Scala, Python, cloud platforms, Redshift, Snowflake, and related tools while conducting code reviews, performance tuning, mentoring engineers, and collaborating with product managers.

Build, model, and maintain scalable BigQuery-based data solutions on GCP. Implement performant data models, storage partitioning/clustering, ETL improvements, data validation, and documentation. Collaborate with architects, data scientists, and engineers to deliver governed, high-quality data for reporting and AI initiatives.

Develop and deploy Python data pipelines and business data objects. Design software solutions, implement source-to-target mappings, build CI/CD pipelines, resolve complex technical issues, and perform unit and integration testing. The role also promotes software quality, engineering best practices, team improvement, and development of digital data capabilities.

Designs and operates scalable batch and streaming data pipelines and AI-ready data products across Databricks, Snowflake, Kubernetes, and cloud services. Develops governed data assets, semantic models, search and retrieval capabilities, and data quality processes. Supports Snowflake Cortex and Databricks initiatives, production troubleshooting, orchestration, performance optimization, CI/CD, and observability. Partners with business and technical teams on roadmaps and adoption, evaluates AI-assisted engineering tools, mentors engineers, and establishes reusable platform patterns.

Build and maintain scalable data platforms and systems that transform raw market data into validated analytical datasets, including bars, residuals, curves, volatility surfaces, and greeks. Collaborate with trading, research, and external vendor teams to understand datasets and workflows, implement calculations, document technical solutions, and ensure reliable delivery through strong testing and validation practices.

Develop and implement data pipelines and large-scale datasets for reporting and analytics. Analyze data sources for quality and availability, standardize data structures, document technical designs, create unit tests, and support QA testing. The internship provides supervised, practical data engineering experience, mentorship, leadership exposure, and opportunities to present project outcomes.

Build and maintain centralized, validated data platforms covering reference, fundamental, market, index, exchange, instrument, and security master datasets. Analyze vendor data, design scalable data models, implement quality controls, resolve processing issues, and partner with quantitative researchers and traders. Provide technical leadership and mentorship while maintaining testing and system design standards across the Core Data team.

Build and maintain production data pipelines, Airflow DAGs, Snowflake infrastructure, and Data Vault 2.0 models. Ensure data quality, observability, security, governance, reliability, and cost efficiency through automated testing and CI/CD. Lead technical projects end-to-end, collaborate with stakeholders, and support SOX-relevant reporting while developing expertise in commercial insurance data and processes.

Designs, builds, administers, and troubleshoots cloud data architectures, databases, schemas, metadata repositories, ETL processes, and analytic models. Ensures data integrity and quality, develops SQL queries and reports, leads testing and automation improvements, and supports dashboards, governance, data sharing, and metric collection. Collaborates with Agile teams to translate business requirements into technical infrastructure designs and decision-support capabilities using AWS, Java, Python or Scala, GitLab, and Terraform.

Build and maintain cloud cost monitoring, alerting, and optimization tooling. Develop automation, cost allocation/tagging, data pipelines, dashboards, and integrations with billing APIs. Support FinOps processes, implement cost guardrails, troubleshoot cost systems, participate in on-call rotation, and collaborate with senior engineers and product teams to drive cost-efficient infrastructure and reporting.

Build and maintain large-scale data processing pipelines using Apache Spark (PySpark/Scala) and Python. Design ETL workflows, implement distributed data processing, use version control (Git), and work with cloud platforms (GCP/AWS/Azure).