Top Senior 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.

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.

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.

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.

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 scalable, secure data pipelines, models, platforms, and governance systems that enable AI applications to access trusted enterprise data. Partner with analytics, marketing, and product teams to translate requirements into technical solutions, independently deliver projects through production, and support sensitive-data security and access controls. Preferred experience includes LLM architectures, cloud data platforms, infrastructure as code, regulated environments, and technical leadership.

Design and scale lakehouse architecture, including Bronze, Silver, and Gold data layers. Build reliable streaming and batch pipelines with Kafka, Spark, and Airflow; manage Iceberg, Delta, and Hudi table formats; optimize Trino, Starburst, and Databricks queries; and improve platform reliability, data quality, and performance. Collaborate with data scientists, analysts, and product teams to deliver scalable data platform solutions.

Design and scale lakehouse architecture, streaming and batch pipelines, and reliable data platforms using Kafka, Spark, Airflow, Iceberg, Databricks, and related technologies. Build Medallion-layer data systems, manage open table formats, optimize distributed queries, monitor platform reliability, resolve data quality issues, and collaborate with analysts, data scientists, and product teams.

Build and maintain scalable ETL/ELT pipelines and data foundations using Databricks, dbt, and AWS. Transform raw structured and unstructured data into reliable datasets for product analytics and data science, including telemetry, streaming data, and feature engineering. Develop dashboards in Tableau and Databricks, optimize workflows, and collaborate with Product, Engineering, analytics, and data science stakeholders to support product health, adoption, and performance insights.

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.

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 operate reliable ETL and ELT pipelines across lakehouse and transactional systems. Develop data models, enforce governance, integrate diverse data sources, and support analytics, APIs, and predictive tools. Monitor performance, data quality, lineage, cost, and uptime while collaborating with data science, AI, product, and innovation teams.

Designs and develops complex cloud-native data solutions, scalable batch and real-time pipelines, APIs, data models, and enterprise data platforms. Implements data governance, quality, lineage, security, observability, CI/CD, automated testing, and operational reporting capabilities. Collaborates with architects, product owners, analysts, governance, security, and platform teams on technology strategy and cloud modernization. Mentors engineers, leads technical design discussions, presents recommendations, and supports AI-ready data products and emerging development tools.

Design, develop, and optimize enterprise-scale data platforms, pipelines, data lakes, warehouses, and analytical datasets on Azure and Snowflake. Build ETL/ELT processes using ADF, Databricks, PySpark, SQL, Python, and Snowflake. Manage data models, governance, security, quality, CI/CD, cloud migrations, and performance optimization. Collaborate with stakeholders, troubleshoot production issues, document solutions, and support Agile delivery.

Designs, builds, and manages cloud-based data systems, including pipelines, data lakes, warehouses, lakehouses, databases, and ETL processes. Develops optimized Python and SQL queries, improves workflow performance, and supports data movement between on-premises and cloud environments. Collaborates with leadership, analysts, research teams, and other departments to define requirements and reporting needs. Applies data governance, access controls, security, compliance, troubleshooting, and system support practices.

Lead data engineering teams in designing, developing, testing, implementing, and supporting cloud-based data solutions. Build distributed, full-stack, machine-learning-enabled systems using Java, Scala, Python, relational and NoSQL databases, streaming technologies, and cloud data warehouses. Collaborate with product managers and Agile teams, conduct code reviews and unit testing, optimize performance, mentor engineers, and adopt emerging technologies and interactive AI tools.

Design, build, and maintain ETL/ELT pipelines and SSAS tabular models. Develop complex T-SQL queries and Power BI reports. Ensure data quality, optimize performance, and support migration of legacy systems into Microsoft BI environments while collaborating with stakeholders.