Top Data Engineer Jobs in Chicago, IL

Build, test, and maintain batch and event-driven data pipelines and ETL/ELT workflows. Transform and validate large datasets, troubleshoot data-quality issues, improve workflow reliability, and support platform modernization. Collaborate with engineering, product, and data stakeholders while following strong practices for version control, testing, monitoring, documentation, and code review. The role may occasionally require work outside standard business hours.

Own EULER’s data lifecycle, including instrumentation, validation, reconciliation, privacy, anonymization, canonical data modeling, analytics datasets, documentation, and production pipelines. The role requires strong SQL, software engineering practices, independent ownership, skepticism toward data quality, and clear communication. Preferred experience includes GDPR/LGPD, multi-tenant B2B SaaS, dbt, statistics, Cloudflare Workers, Postgres, Parquet, DuckDB, and Bubble.

Build and maintain scalable batch and streaming data pipelines, analytics warehouses, transformation layers, and dimensional data models. Perform SQL-based analysis, support dashboards and reporting, monitor data quality and delivery SLAs, troubleshoot incidents, and improve operational reliability. Collaborate with engineers, analysts, data scientists, and business stakeholders while contributing to documentation, governance, observability, and automation.

Build scalable data ingestion, transformation, and loading infrastructure using Spark, SQL, AWS, and Databricks. Develop entity resolution systems, CI/CD pipelines, anomaly detection, and data quality processes. Design scalable processing systems, orchestration workflows, storage patterns, and data warehouse solutions. Collaborate remotely, document technical designs, scope projects, and solve complex data engineering and data science problems.

Build and scale distributed data pipelines and architectures supporting AI products and research. Responsibilities include processing large datasets with Spark, designing AWS data systems, managing SQL and NoSQL storage, writing Python and SQL, ensuring data quality and reliability, and implementing automation, orchestration, monitoring, and scalable data operations.

Design, build, and operate scalable batch and streaming data pipelines, lakehouse and warehouse models, and data services. Own datasets end to end, improve Snowflake, Iceberg, Spark, and Flink performance and reliability, implement governance and observability, and support graph-serving data models. Partner with product and engineering teams, participate in on-call, review code and designs, and mentor junior engineers.

Build and maintain reliable data pipelines supporting money movement, fraud response, and client reporting. Integrate internal and external APIs, orchestrate workflows with Airflow on Kubernetes, and implement testing, monitoring, alerting, and observability. Debug production issues, document root causes, improve pipeline efficiency, collaborate with stakeholders, and contribute to technical designs. The role requires Python, SQL, Airflow, Snowflake, dbt, and GCP experience, with opportunities for increased end-to-end ownership.

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).

Designs and leads scalable data pipelines, data products, and cloud data solutions using AWS, Snowflake, dbt, SQL, and Python. Develops batch and near-real-time ingestion, curated data models, and AI-ready platforms while ensuring data quality, governance, observability, reliability, and performance. Establishes engineering standards, CI/CD practices, and infrastructure-as-code, troubleshoots production issues, collaborates with analytics and AI/ML teams, and mentors engineers.

Designs scalable data architectures, ELT/ETL pipelines, data models, quality frameworks, and self-service data platforms. Partners with engineering, product, program, leadership, and data science teams to translate business needs into technical solutions. The role includes end-to-end technical ownership, large-scale batch and streaming data processing, mentoring junior engineers, system optimization, and on-call support for platform stability.

Lead the design and implementation of enterprise data architecture, data warehouses, ETL/ELT pipelines, data models, system integrations, governance processes, and business intelligence reporting. Partner with leaders and vendors across Finance, Sales, Operations, and HR to improve data quality, automate workflows, establish consistent KPIs, and support scalable decision-making. The role also addresses permissions, security, audit trails, backups, and integration of acquired companies.

Own data pipelines into and out of the warehouse, dbt models, data integrity, governance, identity resolution, reverse ETL, and quality monitoring across growth, lifecycle, and brokerage data. Partner with product, marketing, and operations teams to establish data contracts, ensure accurate and timely business metrics, and support regulated financial data requirements.

Build a canonical entity and knowledge graph for identity resolution, permissions, compliance, and agent authorization. Develop production data pipelines across internal systems, graph-based correlation, ML matching, schemas, APIs, provenance, bitemporal models, drift detection, and delegation credentials. Partner with Finance and Compliance on classification pilots while enforcing privacy, regulatory compliance, jurisdictional partitioning, and auditability.

Architects, deploys, and operates scalable data platform infrastructure supporting analytics. Responsibilities include administering Airflow and Superset, managing Terraform infrastructure, building CI/CD pipelines, enforcing security and compliance, developing DBT data models, cataloging assets in OpenMetadata, writing Python automation, and mentoring engineers. The role requires extensive infrastructure and data engineering experience across cloud platforms, containers, data security, and workflow orchestration.

Design and build scalable data infrastructure, including lakehouse architecture, ClickHouse deployments, ETL/ELT pipelines, and data models connecting Postgres with analytics systems. Establish data quality, observability, performance, cost, and reliability standards. Collaborate with product and engineering teams, define data contracts and specifications, support real-time analytics, and use AI-assisted coding and LLMs to accelerate pipeline development and transformation.

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.

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.

Leads the design, development, governance, and productization of enterprise data models, pipelines, data products, and ontologies. Builds machine-learning-ready datasets, implements security and lineage controls, optimizes Databricks and Delta Lake environments, establishes data-product standards, collaborates with architects and data scientists, and mentors engineering talent. The role also defines product roadmaps, service levels, usage metrics, and continuous-improvement processes for enterprise data assets supporting AI agents, analytics, and applications.

Build and manage data engineering solutions involving data modeling, ETL/ELT, integration, master data management, data quality, warehousing, analytics, business intelligence, and governance. Use Microsoft Azure, Informatica, Snowflake, and programming languages including Python, C#, SQL, and Java. Communicate complex technical concepts clearly, analyze data to identify opportunities, advise stakeholders, and drive strategic improvements.

Leads quality data engineering and analytics initiatives, including data pipelines, integrations, databases, dashboards, governance, automation, and AI-enabled solutions. Translates business requirements into scalable systems, analyzes quality trends, improves processes, administers quality platforms, and partners with IT and vendors. Provides technical leadership, training, mentoring, and support while driving adoption of Power Platform, intelligent agents, copilots, and responsible AI practices.

Staff Data Engineer responsible for setting technical direction, architecting scalable data platforms, leading cross-functional initiatives, improving reliability and performance, and enabling AI-assisted analytics and development. The role includes hands-on development with Python, SQL, cloud data warehouses, orchestration, infrastructure as code, Kubernetes, Kafka, and streaming pipelines, along with mentoring, technical advocacy, documentation, code reviews, and on-call troubleshooting.

Data Engineer II will modernize BlueLabs’ data platform by leading Kimball dimensional modeling and legacy warehouse migrations, building reliable production data pipelines, and enforcing data quality standards. The role requires advanced SQL, Python, and dbt expertise, hands-on Snowflake and Redshift experience, and ownership of testing, documentation, observability, and scalable architecture. The engineer will collaborate cross-functionally, guide Data Engineer I team members, contribute to architectural decisions, and translate business logic into maintainable, cloud-agnostic data layers.

Design, develop, and maintain data pipelines, ETL processes, integrations, data infrastructure, and complex data models. Build and support data warehouses and analytics solutions using SQL, PL/SQL, Oracle, Snowflake, and cloud technologies. Collaborate with analysts, architects, developers, data scientists, and business stakeholders throughout the delivery lifecycle. Provide production support, troubleshoot issues, tune database performance, and contribute to data-driven reporting and AI tools.

Build and operate data-intensive web products and APIs, extend high-throughput ETL pipelines and scrapers, ensure reliability/observability, design self-scaling services, participate in code review, and collaborate across product, data, and infrastructure teams to meet production SLAs.

Design, build, and maintain scalable data pipelines, data lakes, and databases; ingest and map customer financial datasets; monitor pipeline reliability; translate business requirements into data flows and analytical insights to ensure high-quality, usable data.