Top Remote Data Engineer Jobs in Chicago, IL

The Data Engineer will develop and maintain data pipelines, perform data extraction and transformation, and support data analytics across the enterprise.

As a Data Engineer, you will build and optimize data pipelines, ensuring accurate data delivery that informs pricing and market analytics at Alt.

Design, build, monitor, and troubleshoot ETL pipelines (Azure Data Factory) to move and transform large datasets from sources like Salesforce and SFTP into Snowflake. Implement SQL-based data cleansing and quality checks, document data lineage and mapping, collaborate with QA/UAT, and recommend new integration tools and efficiencies.

Build and maintain data pipelines, applications, workflows, and governance in Palantir Foundry. Apply industrial engineering and operations research methods to analyze depot/MRO capacity, throughput, and bottlenecks, integrate ERP/MRO data into simulation models, deliver decision-support briefings, and support platform monitoring, automations, and client engagement.

Support a Department of State implementation by assessing data policies and architecture, developing data pipelines, cleaning and integrating datasets (using Palantir Foundry), and producing analyses and visualizations. Create governance documentation, catalog data fidelity issues, coordinate with non-technical users, and recommend improvements to meet analytical and mission goals.

The Staff Data Engineer will lead design and implementation of analytics platforms and data products, collaborate cross-functionally, mentor engineers, and drive best practices at Upside.

Lead pre-sales technical engagements to design and optimize scalable cloud lakehouse data platforms (Snowflake/Databricks). Provide architecture reviews, ETL/ELT pipeline design, governance and AI-ready data foundations, support services sales, and translate technical tradeoffs into actionable recommendations for engineering and executive stakeholders.

Design, build, and operate scalable PostgreSQL databases and cloud-native data infrastructure. Build and maintain ETL/ELT pipelines, optimize query and server performance, ensure high availability and disaster recovery, improve observability, troubleshoot production issues, guide schema and application design, evaluate database technologies, and mentor junior engineers to support reliable, secure data-driven applications.

Lead pre-sales data engineering engagements to design and implement scalable lakehouse data platforms (Snowflake/Databricks). Advise customers on data strategy, governance, pipelines, AI-ready foundations, migrations, and translate technical solutions into business outcomes while supporting sales and partner enablement.

Lead design and scaling of the data platform and analytics pipelines. Build and maintain ETL/ELT workflows, integrations, serverless data services, and reliable data models. Mentor teammates, improve automation, observability, and data governance to support analytics and operational insights.

Design, build, and maintain ingestion and transformation pipelines for a knowledge-graph analytics platform. Profile and prepare structured and semi-structured source data, ensure data lineage and traceability, implement transformation logic for graph loading, collaborate with data scientists on graph modeling and entity resolution, improve pipeline reliability, and document ingestion patterns using version control and issue tracking.

Design, build, and maintain scalable batch and real-time data pipelines and data lake architecture. Improve observability and SLOs, optimize ETL/ELT, develop dbt workflows, support event-driven architectures, integrate financial APIs, and collaborate with analytics and ML teams to deliver reliable, model-ready data products.

Design, build, and maintain AWS-based data pipelines and ETL processes using Glue, Spark/PySpark and EMR. Integrate multiple data sources into data lakes and Redshift, implement DevOps CI/CD practices, and work with Kafka, Hudi, and various AWS storage and analytics services.

Own and evolve the data infrastructure powering identity and fraud products. Build and operate scalable ETL/ELT pipelines, ensure data quality and observability, optimize storage and access, support product squads, respond to production incidents, mentor engineers, and drive data platform innovation.

Lead the Data Platform Engineering team owning ETL/reverse-ETL pipelines, replication, and production datastores. Define architecture, roadmap, standards (IaC, observability, schema contracts), mentor engineers, drive incident response and durable fixes, and partner on cross-team technical decisions and operational reliability for data correctness, completeness, and timeliness.

The job involves leveraging AWS and Snowflake for data engineering tasks within a technology-focused company, requiring US residency.

Design and build a medallion architecture using dbt and Microsoft Fabric, create and maintain data ingestion pipelines, and implement governance, lineage, documentation, and quality checks to support self-serve analytics while collaborating with cross-functional teams.

Own and optimize data infrastructure and ETL/ELT pipelines using SSIS and Microsoft Fabric. Build and maintain SQL Server data warehouse staging, transformations, and lakehouse ingestion. Implement CI/CD, version control with GitHub, monitor pipeline health, troubleshoot data issues, document data flows, and translate stakeholder requirements into data engineering solutions that support BI reporting.

The Data Engineer will design and maintain data pipelines, optimize cloud data warehouses, and collaborate with analytics teams while mentoring junior staff.

The Senior Data Engineer will design and implement scalable data models in BigQuery using dbt for analytics and reporting, ensuring data governance and optimal performance.

Design, build, and automate scalable data platforms (lakehouses/warehouses). Implement and optimize ETL/ELT pipelines using Databricks and dbt, apply Medallion Architecture, manage IaC/CI-CD, ensure data security and governance, and integrate pipelines with BI tools while engaging with stakeholders.

Build and maintain production-grade data pipelines and ELT processes using Python, SQL, Airflow, and dbt within AWS. Design optimized schemas in PostgreSQL and Redshift, leverage AI/LLMs to improve development, automation, testing, and data quality, and scale infrastructure for large healthcare datasets.

Design, develop, and manage data infrastructure for internal and client projects, focusing on large-scale data pipelines, APIs, and cloud deployments.

Design, build, and maintain data warehouse infrastructure, semantic/dimensional models, metrics layer, and BI dashboards (Sigma, Power BI, Databricks). Build secure ELT pipelines, enforce governance and row-level security (Entra ID), enable self-service analytics and AI/ML integrations, triage BI issues, train stakeholders, and collaborate in Agile to deliver reliable, performant reporting and curated data products.

Lead architecture and buildout of a new graph-backed enterprise data platform: design ingestion, graph and relational storage, entity resolution pipelines, temporal models, ETL/ELT pipelines, governance, APIs, and production connectors. Ship scalable graph data models, traversal queries, and platform roadmap while enabling observability, security, and containerized deployments.